A friend shared a post recently commenting on how we often have these visions of how our life will turn out and what experiences will surely come – think a beautiful marriage with loving children, a fulfilling vocation, economic security, friends to share these things with etc. – but when life is surprisingly contrary and […]
Category: Activate Within
Immaterial
We’ve all heard of the placebo effect – in controlled environments practitioners will break up a group and give half of them simple sugar pills, which would have no impact on the illness in question, where the other half would receive the actual medicine that is designed to treat the illness. In as much as […]
Reality Filters
There is a pretty well-known story about Columbus first visiting a new land. The natives could not even see his ship, because they had no conceptualization of what a ship was. Their ‘reality filters’ couldn’t make sense of the information in front of them and, as a result, simply omitted it entirely. Whether you believe […]
Belief
“The man who thinks he can, and the man who thinks he can’t are both right.” – Confucius Belief is a simple concept, yet terribly complex. Allow me to share a personal experience in order to help ground belief into the world we live in. As a teen I was playing basketball with a group […]