Category: Continual Learning

A sign that says "be the best version of yourself"

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How Many You’s Make Up You? Which You Do You Answer To?

We all have many sides, many selves within us; conflicting wishes, drives, and emotions, making the old quote ‘To thy own self

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Do You Ask Dirty Questions?

In this context, a Dirty Question is one that either: contains the biases and assumptions of the questioner or presupposes/directs the answer

Drawing of a human head in profile, with gears inside the brain

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How Cognitively Fit Are You?

We think a lot about physical fitness; seems like there is a gym every 10 blocks. We care about emotional fitness as

A set of gears with each gear held by a pair of human hands

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What We Need is a Bigger Hammer…NOT!

The ‘Bigger Hammer’ approach is simplistic thinking that blithefully assumes that more of the same, just increasing intensity or scale, will work.

"You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them."

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Difficulties in Telling Truth to Power… even when Power Wants to Listen

I recently managed to lose $12 million dollars in just over two years. Since the biggest mistake is the one you don’t

A sunny sky in the background with a chain in the foreground. The last chain link is broken and there are birds flying away from it.

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The Fallacy of Projecting What Was onto What Is

The ability to fully release the past is a true superpower, one within the grasp of all. Who we were yesterday need

Cartoon of a man looking into his own mind with a magnifying glass

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The Most Important Class Ever: You 101

We spend much of our lives constructing mental cages that are invisible to us, dungeons of the mind that restrict and confine

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I Have Trust Issues

I made the statement ‘I Have Trust Issues’ in semi jest replying to an inquiry as to why The Collier Companies always

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Any One Number is a Lie

We live in a complex and uncertain world where ambiguity abounds. Yet we humans abhor doubt, we so desire a solid foundation

Picture of a person writing in a journal

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Exploding Wants

Have you ever found yourself trapped on a hedonic treadmill? Frantically exhausting yourself like a gerbil, seemingly never ever able to get

A cartoon brain wearing a sweatband and jumping rope

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Your Soul is Digesting Your Experiences You Choose as surely as Your Body Digests the Food You Eat

We are all aware of the need to eat well and nutritiously in order to maintain our physical health yet few of