According to Malcolm Gladwell: life skills, social skills, winning skills you learn through living with people who use them.
My mother didn’t have them, and my brothers, especially my younger brother didn’t get them…
I did get some from my father: my father came from deep… mother died of starvation, he was bounced between families, getting an education without going to school, walking from one country to the other to save his skin…
I didn’t see any of
Are you a nerd? ((One description I found on the internet is this: a NERD is an individual of vast intelligence and curiosity coupled with a natural knack for academics and discovery. You not only appreciate technology, biology, and all the other ‘ology’s – you know what they mean and how they work, too! While Geeks are busy flooding comic-cons and using the internet while pretending to know how it works, you are busy coding the damn internet and earning your Masters or Doctorate (if you don’t already have it/both). Of course t
Movies with good actors do it better…
American actors are mostly useless, but it may be because American directors have no empathy? And yet some of the most missing feelings I got from American TV series I have watched through Netflix. I have recently learned family love, and being able to choose, ultimately, what is win-win… in a series I am watching now, Blue Bloods about a Irish family of cops in New York City. I also had a peek at something I didn’t know I wanted to feel: how religion is for people who have faith…
I don’t know if it is the actors or the di
I have been wrong.
I have been wrong in thinking that humility is the ultimate stumbling block. It seems that humility can help the mind withdraw from the “I don’t need to hear this I already know everything” stance, and allow you to learn, and use your other faculties.
But I can now see, that without courage first activated, present and in working order, humility won’t be accepted, because it takes courage to get out of the mind.
I hate that this is so… after all I spent so much time attempting to activate humility, with no success.
So we are down to courage…
An
I activate a new capacity. If you used it, a whole new world would open up for you… But for you nothing happened… But what just happened?
When I activate a new capacity, you have an opportunity. You either take it or you don’t.
Opportunities come with a count-down-timer… They expire. That’s why the phrase says: window of opportunity…
You continue doing what you have always done, exactly the way you have always done it.
What happens? The opportunity closes. That’s it. Good bye.
There are 160 capacities that you could, potentially, activate.
I wa
I shared a few bits here and there today with my chiropractor… He has 13 capacities used.
The conversation was an utter and total failure.
Capacities, abilities, is a whole new concept, and he wasn’t even getting a glimpse of what I was talking about. Very interesting.
It seems that the mistaken belief is that you can learn anything… including being an investor like Warren Buffet… that is a total illusion: you cannot learn anything that you don’t have the capacities for.
Most types of learning, like classes, coaching, etc. don’t take you to a place where the capacity missing would turn on, because you are ready for i
What do I like about leading webinars?
Unlike other people, I don’t speak from what I know, I don’t speak from my mind.
Why this is something to like? Because every time I speak I surprise myself. I listen to what I am saying, and I am amazed, and often confronted.
Today the concept of appreciation was discussed: that “culture” makes you believe that appreciation is talking about things you like… but it is a lie.
Just like in mathematics every number has a value, zero, five, minus 15.
Appreciation is simply giving something a matching value.
Things you don’t like may have a negative number
Just think how hard it is to let go and pee, when people are, maybe, watching. Falling asleep in a new environment.
But… when you are controlling, your are shrinking. When you let go of control: you are expanding.
There are so many things to control: with your control of the few things you know, your breathing, your thoughts… you take yourself out of life, take yourself to a place, where life dies with your control.
In you, and around you.
There is an exercise they make you do in leadership classes. Two people face each othe
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Most things that happen inside you, inside Team-YOU, (Team You: body: feelings/emotions, mind, soul, ego, subconscious, history/ancestry, cells/DNA, self/identity, Self, consciousness)) are below your conscious awareness.
Most of the abilities, most of the DNA capacities I activate, need you to get aware of the happenings inside you, or you’ll lose out.
What do I mean “lose out”?
When you pay $25 for the activation of a capacity, an ability becomes available to you. If you don’t use it, you lose the $25. But what more you lose depends on the game you play in life.