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 […]

Recommended Reads for 2008-02-01

Here we go again. Another week has gone by, so fast. This week’s theme is happiness. Here is a collection of the best articles on the topic of happiness that were published on other blogs this week.
Actors, Astronauts, and That Thing We Call Happiness
Techniques to Help You Live a Happy and Fulfilled Life
10 Things […]

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; […]

Recommended Reads for 2008-01-25

I’m going to have such a post weekly. Each week will have a different format. Sometimes I’ll post links to sites, sometimes to articles, sometimes podcasts, sometimes on a specific topic or issue, etc… Let’s wrap up this week with a list of links to articles that I especially enjoyed from various blogs.

Top 30 Tips […]

Who Do You Want to Be When You Die?

Have you ever asked yourself this question? I think this is the most important question a human being can ask himself. If you never did, it’s high time you do. And you should ask yourself several times a day: “Is what I am doing right now congruent with who I want to be when I […]