Books

I’ve been reading Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham, and while I agree with the idea that we should focus on what we do well rather than trying to fix all our weaknesses, there are some key points where I think he misses the mark. For one, he lumps together different concepts—personality traits, attitudes, […]

I recently read Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath, and it made me realize something—I suffer from the curse of knowledge when it comes to NLP. I understand it so well, both conceptually and practically, that I struggle to remember what it was like not to

Last night, Amazon recommended a new NLP book to me: Essentials of NLP: 150 Questions & Answers. The description boldly claimed: “It provides all the information you’d get in those $3,000, one-week training programs.” That got me thinking—what is real NLP? It’s certainly not a series of questions and answers. True NLP is, first and

After reading Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near, I’m increasingly convinced that within the next two decades, many of us might have the option to extend our lives indefinitely. A bold claim? Maybe. However, advancements in biotechnology and nanotechnology are accelerating at an incredible rate—likely faster than we can mentally and socially adapt to. This