Shoulda Kissed Her

Posted on July 27, 2011 by danspira

Just over a month ago, I met up with an old friend who graduated medical school. He was entering the field of palliative care and we started taking about this blog post I had come across, about the Top Five Regrets of People on Their Deathbed. The idea there is summarized nicely and concisely by this xkcd cartoon:   Of [...]

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NLPrep: Keep Your Eyes on the Map and Your Feet on the Ground

Posted on July 21, 2011 by danspira

In preparation for a course on NLP that I’m taking next week, I’m reviewing some books, articles and previous learning on the topic. This blog post is part of my pre-program process… it includes by reference another blog post from last year:  Effective Instruction Through Reverse Engineering: 2 Kinds of NLP and the 49 Teaching Techniques [...]

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Inside -> Out

Posted on July 15, 2011 by danspira

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”  - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross cf. “What is to give light must endure burning.”  - Viktor Frankl

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How Do You Explain Your Failures?

Posted on July 6, 2011 by danspira

Wanting to do something and knowing how to do something is not enough. To do anything — particularly those difficult things that require you to learn (or unlearn) something — you have to persist in the face of difficulties and set-backs. How you explain those challenges to yourself — the attribution you give them — [...]

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