One of my personal idiosyncrasies is that I have difficulty listening to generic meditation audios, particularly those intended for mental programming.  They are either, necessarily, generic and general or they are instructional, neither of which is particularly conducive to my addressing my specific concerns or issues. » Read the rest of the entry..

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A short presentation by Alain de Botton on success.

He first discusses the idea of a “meritocracy” in which members in society are graded according to merit. Those who have the merits to be successful, become so while those who don’t have such merits are not as successful, or even fail. » Read the rest of the entry..

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Background

Theory and Interventions

Positive Psychology is a relatively new field in psychology, having been founded about 10 years ago, which has, as one of its study projects, research into what makes us “happy”. As with other research in psychology, it is highly subjective as it is based upon studies into peoples responses as to how they are feeling. We have all had days in which we weren’t quite sure how we felt and so you can imagine some of the difficulties encountered in this research. Having said that, however, many methods have been developed so as to gain insight and quantify information within the subjective field of psychology. » Read the rest of the entry..

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There is no doubt that we do, indeed, live in exciting times!

Below is a brief presentation by Christopher deCharms, Neuroscientist and inventor, regarding potential advances in MRI technology and techniques in this video. » Read the rest of the entry..

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Many universities provide a forum for invited professors to present a “Last Lecture”. The idea is that if they only had one Last Lecture to present, what message would they like to present to their audeince. Randy Pausch presented a wonderful “Last Lecture” on September 18, 2007 (see below). » Read the rest of the entry..

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Cliff Young, a 61 year old potato farmer in Australia, knowing neither the proper marathon “techniques” nor “strategies” and wearing none of the proper equipment, won the Sydney to Melbourne race AND shaved 2 days off the record. I find this YouTube video inspirational. » Read the rest of the entry..

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In an earlier post, I gathered together 7 YouTube video clips of Napoleon Hill discussing components of his “Master Key to Success”. Since that post, an additional 3 YouTube video clips have been released by Primeau Productions. » Read the rest of the entry..

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I recently came across an article summarizing research into the “Science” of Gratitude and Happiness.

As a result of my many years of personal research, I believe that gratitude and happiness are important and intuitively acknowledged there was value in having a “Positive Mental Attitude” and “An Attitude of Gratitude” » Read the rest of the entry..

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I just came across this YouTube clip of Anthony Robbins talking about The Power of Beliefs and Convictions.

I found it fascinating, particularly around the 1 minute mark when he is summarizing material from a discussion with Bernie Siegal about his research in which the physical characteristics of schizophrenic patients changed as they switched from one personae to another! Utterly fascinating!

What did you think of this clip?  Please feel free to leave your comment below.

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