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.

On Discovery

Marcel Proust The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

What Invisible Gorillas Tell You About Your Future

NPR’s article, Why Even Radiologists Can Miss A Gorilla Hiding In Plain Sight discusses work by Harvard Medical School attention researchers Trafton Drew and Jeremy Wolfe, who find that radiologists overwhelmingly fail to see a gorilla placed on MRIs; implications of this study apply to everyone and how our expectations shape how we perceive (and fail… Continue reading What Invisible Gorillas Tell You About Your Future

Something Unknown

Early 20th century British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington on the nature of God and the cosmos: “Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.”

Quote of the Day

Edward Abbey: “When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.”

Throwaway Thoughts

I have a lot of creative friends: writers, designers, artists. They can all attest to one simple fact: we have a lot of ideas that just aren’t that good. This truth is not isolated to creativity. Or rather it is, but our definition of creativity is too limiting. We are creating thoughts all the time.… Continue reading Throwaway Thoughts