Recent Posts

Link Love

Subscriptions

Information

Sponsors

Posts Tagged Beliefs

How to Get a Better Life Through a Better Vision

Here’s an optical illusion I stumbled upon this morning. When you follow the moving dot with your eyes you will only see pinks dots. Now if you stare at the black “+” in the center, the moving dot turns green. Stare long enough and all the pinks dots disappear and only a single rotating green […]


See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar - Review

See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar is the first self-improvement book I ever read. That was more than 10 years ago! I’m very grateful that I had the chance to read such a book at such a young age. Being young I didn’t have as many beliefs, and not as deeply anchored, as […]


An Engineer’s View On Beliefs

If you’ve read the About page or the intro post, you know that I have a Computer Engineering degree. This often leads me to try to analyze and model the world around me. I see patterns in everything, especially in other human beings. I also like the idea of comparing the brain to a computer. […]


What Is A Belief And Why It Is Important

A belief is to your brain what a reflex is to your body. A reflex is a shortcut to bypass unnecessary processing of what’s going on. For example, let’s say you accidentally touch a very hot piece of metal. Your brain doesn’t go: I’m receiving a signal that the hand is touching something very hot; […]


Your Beliefs Are Your Clouds

Beliefs are like clouds. What kind of clouds do you have? The kind that is thick and dark and doesn’t let the sun through? Or big, white, shiny and beautiful, perfectly complementing your otherwise deep blue sky? Just as clouds can ruin a nice scenery, or inform of a storm to come, your beliefs can […]