The “swish pattern” is the ultimate bread and butter NLP visualization technique. If such a thing exists, the swish pattern is the classic NLP technique. The “Swish Pattern” is a tried-true-and-tested technique. It’s simple. It’s easy. It’s potent. After basic practice with intermediate-level mental imagery and visualization imagination, it’s quite accessible, and it’s remarkably effective for surprisingly fast change. When to Do a Swish Pattern When does one do a swish pattern technique? It’s arguable that using this powerful technique for trivial things will diminish its potency, but such claims [...]
Atheism FTW: Machine Parts and Internal Structure
If we wish to understand how a machine or living body works, we look to its component parts and ask how they interact with each other. Ifthere is a complex thing that we do not yet understand, we can come to understand it in terms of simpler parts that we do already understand. If I ask an engineer how a steam engine works, I have a pretty fair idea of the general kind of answer that would satisfy me. Like Julian Huxley I should definitely not be impressed if the [...]
Succeed with Three NLP Frames (and One Bonus Frame!)
This is an excerpt from the book NLP For the Win by John Thomas Kooz. Be sure to listen to the audio blog and subscribe to both the written blog and audio podcast! There is much more information covered and knowledge shared in the audio portion of this post, which is the case with most all posts! Evidence Evidence frame is the aligning frame. You should fully engage the left brain (logic, sequence, math) with this frame. This is where you objectively scan what you currently have. What have you [...]
Atheism FTW: Religion Slows Down Our Evolution
Welcome to Sunday Mass…that is not Mass…Instead, enjoy your weekly, healthy prescriptive dose of Atheism! A lot of people ask things like, what about all those people in xyz-religious country? They’re all wrong? Yes, they’re deluded. Over 98% of the world was deluded thinking that the world was geocentric before the late 16th century! Mass delusions have occurred and they’re “pernicious” as Dawkins so wonderfully and accurately described them. Additionally, asking that question is like asking, “What about all those toddlers who believe in Santa?” Yes, they believe in something [...]
The “It Just Gets Done” List
There are so many productivity techniques and tricks and tactics out there these days that it’s almost assured that some incarnation of this list exists somewhere in some form or another. But this is something I have been using for awhile and wanted to share this because of its efficacy, nifty-ness, and the fact that it is stripped of practically all discombobulating problematic techniques. This is the Reduced Instruction Set, (Note: Reduced Instruction Set Computer, or RISC, was a clutch computer technology to advance the speed of chips and computer [...]
Atheism FTW: Atheists Don’t Appreciate the Beauty of Nature (NOT!)
Welcome to Sunday Mass…that is not Mass…Instead, enjoy your weekly, healthy prescriptive dose of Atheism! One religious friend (and yes, despite my generalized hatred for religious people, I have a few very good friends who happen to be religious) said to me “You dont’ appreciate nature as much as me because I can look at nature and see God and Beauty…” (and insert more garbled, bloated, religiously noxious chuntering here). In contrast, and in reality, the average atheist will, by definition, always appreciate Nature much more superbly, completely, and profoundly [...]
3 Ways Constructive Anger Can Help You Achieve
Especially in western society, anger is frowned upon and it is outright avoided at times. Even being a little bit peeved can spark outrage in people who query “Jeepers, what got into you?” or “Look who got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!”. A lot of society, especially American society, downright fears, criticizes and shuns anger. But it’s a very normal and entirely valid emotion. In fact, if used constructively, anger can be highly productive. This post shows you how constructive anger can actually accelerate focus, [...]
Atheism FTW: Religion Mutilates Imagination
Welcome to Sunday Mass…that is not Mass…Instead, enjoy your weekly, healthy prescriptive dose of Atheism! There’s nothing wrong with fiction; fiction has been an undeniable source of clear and genuine inspiration and clarity and poignancy, but, unlike religious fiction, all all religion is fiction, literature doesnt’ dangerously deny it’s fictitious nature! We know Tom and Huck never floated down the Mississippi; we know that Gandalf never led the Fellowship through the mines of Moria; we fully comprehend that Zaphod Beeblebrox never commandeered the Heart of Gold; but it’s enjoyable, uplifting, [...]
Minimalism and ‘Possibly Useful But Discardable’ Items
One thing I fear and that constantly haunts me is getting brand-spanking new awesome device and then having reluctance to discard my old device clutter, insidiously infect, and cognitively burden the new quality experience. This constantly happens. So instead of popping into this fresh, new clean good new item, mode. Old clutter junk I have been reluctant to discard often seeps back into my items and life, festering, producing a kind of organizational virus that thwarts productivity and stymies clarity. There has to be a remedy to that seeping-back-in virus [...]
Atheism FTW: Accusations of Misery and Scientific Faith
Welcome to Sunday Mass…that is not Mass…Instead, enjoy your weekly, healthy prescriptive dose of Atheism! Accusations of Misery Atheists (and therefore, I) occasionally get accused of being “miserably unbelieving”; “just believe! Just have faith!” and other ludicrous suggestions. I often a more enlightening perspective. Instead of accusing atheists of being evil or “miserable”, look at the traumatic and indeed unfathomably tragic consequences of religion. It’s “miserable” to go about one’s entire life actually believing Santa exists, actually believing some Skygod created the planet earth in 6 days (and rested on the seventh); [...]
Why I Dislike Cars
(Here are the rudimentary points. Listen to the Audio blog for the full discussion!) I loathe, abhor, vehemently, dislike cars. Here’s Why: 1. Tragic Calamity and Death injuries flipped defensive driving stress 2. Financial Scam, Hoax, and Crock tickets maintenance reg. fees dmv loops of hell parking fees petrol fees toll fees 3. Emotional Headache dmv loops defensive driving 4. Land-Locked can’t travel 5. Image scam crap idiots judge you by car
Atheism FTW: How and Why Fabrications of Religion Occur
Welcome to Sunday Mass…that is not Mass…Instead, enjoy your weekly, healthy prescriptive dose of Atheism! There are many reasons. The human species, being conscious and posessing a neocortex, has more awareness to question and to probe. What is that “giant orb in the sky”? People deduced that the solar system was heliocentric long before Copernicus, but religion (and other sources of misleading confusion) thwarted that truth from emerging. Indeed, to this day, in 2011, hundreds of thousands (yes that apallingly high number is accurate) of religious people actually are so [...]
12 Classical Music Masterpieces: Dvorak’s Cello Concerto – Three Movements (Part 2 of 12)
Introduction All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Life Network, but I have extended it so that it has more utility. Now this page can be used for identifying classical music pieces! Ever since “classical music” replaced “card and coin tricks” of my Cs of hobbies it had been a major goal to [...]
Atheism FTW: What I Am and Am Not Criticizing About Religion
Given that increase of understanding results in decrease of fear (and vice versa), Then an increase of understanding results in an increase of love (the opposite of fear) (and vice versa). This is an interesting equation. But it proves that because atheists more often understand nuances of nature (the xylem and phloem support structure of trees, the astronomical nautical caclulations of civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight associated with a sunrise or sunset, or the biological complexity of some beautiful or interesting or lovable (like felis catus) species of nature), they [...]
Be the Cat Vet: Avoid Convulsant Flea Topicals
If I were a vicious, clever, and serious enough lawyer (I hold no legal credentials) I would sue the pants off this company: Sergeant. More specifically, Sergeant’s Pet Care Products. They have caused in a few instances, the deaths of many pets, and in many, many instances a slew of worried pet-human-friends panicked about what to do with their pet that is twitching and undergoing convulsions. It’s true that not “that many” pets die from this, but if you look up the brand Sergeant + Convulsant + Pet you will [...]
Intelligence and Atheism
Those who are intelligent must tread a fine line to achieve success because the average majority status quo will ridicule, belittle, and humiliate them because of their own insecurity. If you are intelligent you must be wary of the status quo average people, for they will ridicule, chide, and try to injure you; the mediocrity aims to keep others mediocre. The imbeciles of the world are trapped in their own patterns thinking they are glorious (timboj ezra thinking they’re blegh with restaurant rubbish). If you’re intelligent, chuckle to yourself and [...]
What Are the Top Five Things You’d Like to Install in Your Life?
In his abode, Lord Byron kept: “Eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon” http://neuroticpoets.com/byron/ That was in addition to 10 bloody horses! All those pets (minus the horses) roamed freely throughout the house! Obviously Byron liked animals and the companionship and the ability to observe natural fauna in his abode. It’s quite likely some of those little (or big) critters sparked some of the content of his poetry. However, having such a multitude of pets is indicative of a strong belief. Something abnormal [...]
TIL (Today I Learned) About Pure Water
(Actually, I researched this a few days ago, but still wanted to share). Why this is Important? We’re 70% H20 (Hey roughly the same proportion of water as the earth!). Water is in all our cells, in our blood, in our brain, in our organs. The water we drink touches every cellular nuance of our body. Fuel in a car only touches the engine. The petrol people put into motors (for buses or trains or automobiles) (I don’t use cars, obviously) touches the motor and the exhaust pipe. The petrol [...]
Advanced Chess Notes from Pandolfini’s Book
Wow, Pandolfini seriously understands isolated pawn tactics! Comprehending the isolated d-pawn strategies MASSIVELY helps opening decisions! When confronted with a complex center squares bind, you can make the initiative to cause the game to end up in (what Pandolfini calls) a Pattern A or Pattern B pawn structure for the isolated d-pawn. In both patterns the d-file is open except for the isolated pawn. Very cool! Then you can learn to accustom yourself with Pattern A and Pattern B isolated d-pawns and have much more to work with to dissect [...]
The Average Rarely Evaluates Themselves as Average
“Because if you are like most people, then like most people, you don’t know you’re like most people. Science has given us a lot of facts about the average person, and one of hte most reliable of these facts is that hte average person doesnt’ see herself [or himself] as average. Most studnets see themselves as more intelligent than the average student, most business managers see themselves as more competentn than the average business manager, and most football players see themselves as having better “football sense” than their teammates” (Gilbert [...]
Money as Declining Marginal Utility
“Economists explain that wealth has ‘declining marginal utility,’ which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired, and scared, but once you’ve brought your way out of these burdens the rest of your money is an increasingly useless pile of paper. ” (Gilbert 239). So my interpretation of Gilbert’s interpretation of economical theory is that once money has helped you survive (i.e. not die). It’s more or less fairly useless. I actually fully agree with and understand that. I agree with the necessity [...]
Every Webmaster Needs Success Data – How to Install Google Analytics Code On Your Site or Blog
Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning about your customer so you can better serve the “guests” that surf the pages of your site! With more information of your site “guests”, you can customize your posts, learn more about for what people were searching your site and write more material of those subjects [...]
Remove the Label of the Product and Stop Being an Involuntary Consumer/Advertiser
Something spectacular occurred to me after a few hours of meticulous frustration. I was touching up a portion of my material_items_all list and got stuck on a hygiene component. Specifically a hygiene-travel items. I looked up exactly what was the TSA aviation regulation for non-flammable fluids and, appealing to a precise side of me, was satisfied with the 100ml/3.4oz container limit. I then realized I had a bunch of empty unused bottles that after cleaning and removing their labels (5-hour energy, old Whiteboard spray bottle, and a few others like [...]
How ISBNs Work and Why You Do Not Need Them (ebooks ftw!)
First off, before you go about getting your treasure tome novel or thousand-paged tech manual or non-fiction masterpiece decorated with ISBN’s and the like, you need to write it! I recommend self-publishing and this true gem of an article on formatting in Word</a> is exquisitely well-written, concise, and comprehensively details how to properly format an entire book written in MS Word, but that said I would highly recommend Libre Office instead as the best word-processing software. Libre Office is cross-platform, it’s free, it always works, and it’s got a seamless [...]
