by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 4th January 2012
In my last blog I looked at how ambiguous stimuli, such as Rorschach ink-blots, take on meaning solely due to the fact that the perceiver projects an interpretation onto them. Once such an interpretation or set of perceptual ‘filters’ is proffered by one person it can often shape the...
by Damian Hamill
00:11 - 3rd November 2010
I recall that during my chemistry classes at school we were told that a ‘catalyst’ was a substance that accelerated a chemical reaction without becoming part of the end product. Now, I am sure that there are plenty of people with much greater chemistry knowledge than I have reading...
by Damian Hamill
10:37 - 7th October 2010
I am sure that there are few of us who will not have heard about and been deeply touched by the plight of the 33 miners trapped deep underground in a collapsed mine in Chile. Although there have been encouraging reports that their rescue and return to the surface...
by David Kerr
16:06 - 22nd May 2010
We're pleased to say that our guest blog for Sylvia Lafair's excellent (and very widely read) "Elegant Leadership" blog is now live! You can read it here ...
http://blog.ceoptions.com/?p=1566
by David Kerr
18:43 - 18th May 2010
A man was walking along a beach when, in the distance, he could see a young boy picking up one object after another and throwing them into the sea. As the man got closer, he noticed that the boy was surrounded by thousands of starfish and that it was...
by David Kerr
18:07 - 9th May 2010
The phrase “seeing things from a different perspective” is so ingrained in our language that probably very few of us stop to think about the valuable information contained in this metaphor. Seeing things differently - perhaps through the eyes of another person - remains one of the most...
by Vickie Barker
20:25 - 7th May 2010
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
by David Kerr
21:35 - 26th April 2010
So You Want to Get To "The Top"?
In this article, we discuss an interesting piece of research written by Burke and Orlick, which identified the mental strategies used by elite Mount Everest climbers.
by David Kerr
21:25 - 4th March 2010
Today, I was reminded of the following story about two caterpillars ...
Two caterpillars were sitting on a cabbage leaf having a chat. Suddenly, they heard a loud swishing sound, and looking up, saw a beautiful butterfly flying overhead. The first caterpillar looked at the other, shook his...