Think of creativity more broadly. It applies to every goal we have. “Make wrongs” are contrary, they stifle creative thoughts. If you can’t get enough John Cleese, here’s another talk where he talks about the value of sleeping on creative problems.
Author: Dan Pouliot
A New Hampshire native, Dan received his BFA in Oil Painting from UNH; his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. Dan’s been a positive psychology student/practitioner, a blogger, an amateur Remote Viewer, and now a novelist. His dual passions for anomalous cognition and positive thinking set the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.
Heretical Science
Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson’s lecture on heretical science. He pokes holes in popular skeptic arguments against telepathy, whether water can have a memory (homeopathy), cold fusion and intelligent design. 1 hour, time well spent. Available on the University of Cambridge web site. I loved the name of the talk so much, I added that as… Continue reading Heretical Science
Rupert Sheldrake, Dogs and Owners, and Skeptics
Simon Thorpe is the Deputy Director of the Brain and Cognitive Research Center in Toulouse France. Below is a video talk from him about paranormal phenomena, where he in particular discusses Rupert Sheldrake’s study into whether dogs know when their owners are coming home.
More About Remote Viewing
This post is a reply to questions asked of me here: in a TED forum. Yes, RV is trainable, no special skills are required.
The Science of Creativity
Leo Widrich shares many strategies to increasing our creativity in his article, Why we have our best ideas in the shower: The science of creativity (thanks, Titania Richard).
The Inverse Correlation Between Knowledge and Confidence
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance. —Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. —William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1599) Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. —Voltaire (1694-1778) It has… Continue reading The Inverse Correlation Between Knowledge and Confidence