The Reflection

How We Know Others

Eastern philosophies have, for thousands of years, presented a view of the individual and the universe which has, over the past century begun to appear again in the vision of the newer ideas of physics—those which have post-dated the apple-falls-from-a-tree physics of Newton. […]

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The Mirror

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.” ― Jean Cocteau Mirrors in our Lives There’s an important relationship between a person’s center and his need for mirrors. The better we know ourselves, the less we worry about the reflections of others. Call it self-esteem. The less knowledge we have of ourselves, the more we become dependent […]

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The Center

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. –William Butler Yeats, 1919 What’s Missing For most of the time I’ve been training brains, I’ve tried to figure out what differentiates happier, more satisfied people in any walk of life, at any age. For […]

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Training to the Peak

The “normal” option As we have discussed previously, one of the most heavily-marketed products in brain-training in the 2010’s is z-score training. This so-called “scientific” and “brain-based” system proposes that by training any individual brain to shift dozens of micro-measures in the direction of a population average, it will become more effective—and especially that it […]

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