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Luminous Beings Can Build Dinosaurs
Our meat suits can seem really frustrating at times. The behaviour of other people’s meat suits can apparently collapse Europe into another pre-war economic superstorm that has a tendency to give rise to violent dictators. Too often our silly little monkey brains can get tripped up with conflated words or prejudices even when the comparatively [...]
The Wisdom of Refugee Totem Animals
Discovery Channel’s London office is a fishbowl. Glass everywhere. You can see an image of it here. One day, outside my window, a flock of parakeets landed in the trees. Parakeets. In West London. It turns out London is awash with parakeets. The legend is that either they escaped during the filming of The African [...]
Happiness Requires Repeated Disruption
There’s a faint air of frustration around me at the moment. I missed another Crucible. Granted, it’s not exactly a local event in the strictest sense but my absence is entirely down to a lack of organisation and nothing else. There’s still a week of leave left on my payslips to burn through this year [...]
Why Your Alleged Godliness Is Inefficient
“To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.” Ged -The Farthest Shore Here’s a TED talk about the pitfalls of believing in your own divinity or awesomeness. We can consider it magically relevant because, to my mind, it highlights the difference [...]
Collect The Little Victories Along The Way
Collecting the little victories along the way is good advice for any reasonably complex goal, of course, because the universe has an irritating habit of actually making you earn anything worth having. However it’s especially important for the Big Things like coping with grief or recovering from addiction. Spiritual illumination? Definitely a Big Thing. And [...]
Hold Off On The Poppets And Pins: Why Cursing Is For Monkeys
When charity ads on TV stopped using numbers to describe the scale of their problems and started giving names to the wailing, fly-covered children on our screens something very interesting happened. We doubled the amount we donated. When Oxfam launched “buy a goat” for Christmas they saw a threefold increase in donations given as gifts. [...]
Semen & Bad Memory: Happiness Hacks You May Not Have Considered
Who isn’t clicking on this post, right? Although it’s not what you think. The hack doesn’t strictly require these two ingredients “in combination”. (Not that most of us haven’t all been there one way or another.) No, this is another post exploring the upside of the ongoing realisation that everything about you from your propensity [...]
How To Make Adaptation Work For You: Royal Wedding Series
Here is another one from the Dan. (I like a lot of Dans it seems.) It’s a bit more personal. I like the idea that he’s sharing more about his burn incident and how he’s using it to study pain. You like to hope we’d all do something similar and… you know… really make some [...]
Why Paying Bonuses Ruined The World: Royal Wedding Series
You know how I’m Dan’s number 1 fanboy, right? In fact, if I’m not driving in Scotland right now I’m probabyl reading the book that these data come from. As ever, it’s amazing. Watch and love it. There’s no way this can’t improve your money magic. Amusing question of the day: Do you think these [...]
When Intuition Fails: Royal Wedding Series
You know I like to live where science gets freaky enough to make magic better. I sit right there like a fat guy in a Radisson spa, disgustingly loving it (and possibly nude but you don’t want to alarm your nearby children). I want you to consider this lecture in terms of how often you [...]
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