by Damian Hamill
10:52 - 14th May 2012
What can a candle, a box of drawing pins and a box of matches tell us about creativity? This was the question posed and answered by psychologist, Karl Duncker in the 1940s. Before we go further please have a look at the photograph below showing the afore-mentioned three things.
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 11th May 2012
A recent report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development does not make very comfortable reading for those managers who think they are the best thing since sliced bread. Read on to find out what the CIPD discovered and how companies can respond to address the ‘reality gap’...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 6th February 2012
I remember many years ago listening to a recording of a lecture by the spiritual teacher Ram Dass. Ram Dass told of how his guru would respond when someone came to him and told him he had a problem - "You do not have a problem - you have need...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 27th January 2012
For the last 24 hours or so I have been suffering from a really dreadful bug. Fever, hacking cough – all the usual stuff. As a result my mood has been vile. Let me tell you a little bit about how that relates to a concept from NLP.
by Damian Hamill
11:45 - 6th January 2012
Someone is stuck on a problem. They’ve thought about it endlessly to no avail. Someone suggests that they “sleep on it” and, lo-and-behold, the following morning the solution is staring them in the face. We’ve probably all had experiences like this and wondered if the emergence of a...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 5th January 2012
Today I read a post from an intelligent, accomplished and resourceful person lamenting the fact that if she wanted to get another two hours work done a day she would not be able to continue getting out of bed at 7:30am. Let’s set aside the fact that half past...
by Damian Hamill
12:35 - 30th December 2011
So, the New Year is almost upon us and many of you may be thinking of the changes you want to see happen in 2012 and framing those as New Year’s Resolutions. Let me give you a few pointers and I’ll be brief.
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 21st December 2011
A quick blog this, following on from others I recently wrote on the subject of sleep and its effect on performance at work. A few days ago the CIPD, in association with the mental health charity MIND, published a report and a guide to managing mental health issues in...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 20th December 2011
The great inventor, Thomas Edison, said:
“The person who sleeps eight or ten hours a night is never fully asleep and never fully awake - they have only different degrees of doze through the twenty-four hours."
But let’s face it, Edison, inventor of the electric light-bulb, was in the daylight business. ...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 19th December 2011
“There were lots of invitations; I know you sent me some.
But I’ve been waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.”
These words from Leonard Cohen’s magnificent song, The Miracle, sum up for me one of the most alarming aspects of the personal development movement of the last...