When you get into the world of the discussion of fluoridating water supplies, it soon becomes very apparent, that there are only certain talking points that those in favour of fluoridation want to stick to. For when you want to go outside of those talking points, you are met by a big wall of silence…
If you ever want to see how powerful words are and how they are perceived, keep doing and looking at the same things, but change how you describe them. For where words derive their power from, is in how they are perceived, thus in the perception they become powerful words. Power Of Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg4_7ygQ11A For…
When you begin looking throughout history, you begin to find many ideologies and organisations that are psychopathic creations. And they all have a very destructive history associated with them, with some of the modern psychopathic creations being: Bolshevism Communism Marxism Socialism Nazism Zionism Wahhabism Satanism Bolshevism alone is reported to be responsible for the deaths…
When you begin understanding psychophic behaviour, what they do begins to make perfect sense. For if you are unaware of psychophic behaviour, their wee digs and snide remarks don’t make sense unless you realise they are poking you to get an emotional reaction or to draw you into some sort of conflict. You only have…
There is a simple way to begin to accelerate your rate of learning and that is simply by starting. I keep hearing people saying, I haven’t got time for learning, and I go, do you watch TV? If so, you’ve got time for learning. As an experiment, give up an hour of watching TV and…
The biggest hurdle in sport isn’t in understanding the skills, techniques and tactics, it’s in understanding peoples behaviour and knowing what makes them tick. In terms of coaching, I have found peoples personalities is a smokescreen to what goes into making a successful team, for two people can have the same type of personality and…
If you were to listen to the official materialistic line we are a five sensory being who in the bigger scheme of things, isn’t very special and is separate from everything around us. But when you begin looking at things like: Quantum Physics Natural Healers Psychics and Mediums Shamanic Cultures Ancient History Past Myths and…
Unlike what the name suggests, being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) has got nothing to do with emotions and is more to do with the nervous system and tolerance towards things. And being an HSP effects approximately 20% of the population and the chances are someone in your team or yourself is one. http://www.hsperson.com/pages/test.htm And…
At the moment, general psychology isn’t part of the coaching curriculum and there are 3 main areas outside of sport where coaches pick this up. The current 3 areas for learning about general psychology are: Education Law Enforcement Business Because if you begin looking at the top coaches at the moment and of the past…
When coaching psychology is ever mentioned, we think of the mental game, attaining the peak performance. After looking at the evidence, we need to take a step back and look at psychology in terms of working with people. For as a coach, if you can’t work with people and importantly, get them working for you,…
Have just recently read, Ignorance – How it drives science by Stuart Firestein and for those coming from being a proactive learner will understand. http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Ignorance-Stuart-Firestein/9780199828074 The pretext of the book is that ignorance of a subject is more valuable than the knowledge of the subject for the unknown drives exploration of wanting to know more….
In getting at the heart of people and learning to understand them, one of the things required to understand is the concept of psychological needs. In particular the two of: Power Fun Because: Negative In, Negative Out And: Positive In, Positive Out With the negative being: Closed Mind Failing Mind Taker And the positive being:…
When it comes to working with people and understanding them, there is a way they can be quickly worked out to see what they’re really about. When working and interacting with people there are only two initial questions to ask, they being: Are they a taker? Do they show little or no respect for others?…
The basis of all learning environments is in getting people asking questions. To make this happen, asking question is required to be the norm, though: Why might people be reluctant to ask questions? What will come to the surface is that it revolves around the following 4 things. The first is that people may see asking…
In wanting to become a successful coach, there are 3 major concepts to work towards. They being: The Succeeding Mind A Learning Environment The Playing Zone For in those three are all the elements of successful coaching. And all 3 involve a conscious choice, for if a conscious choice is not made to: Develop a…
Description To become a proactive learner, ask questions to fill in your knowledge gap, review as you go and take your mistakes seriously but not personally. Quotes If I am through learning, I am through – John Wooden A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read – Mark Twain Education…
While I’ve spent a bit of time looking at dyslexia, I’ve been watching Stephen Spielberg’s film Lincoln and though it’s a very good account of the historical times, and while I’m watching it I’m going, “boy is Lincoln dyslexic” The clue’s to Lincoln’s dyslexia is his constant summing up of things and the fact that…
The biggest issue confronting dyslexia is people’s negative attitude towards it and that includes dyslexics themselves. Because until dyslexics see dyslexia in a positive light and express it as such, those without it won’t see it that way. That is pretty much dyslexia in a nut shell and here is how I explain dyslexia to…
If you have ever wondered why I carry on doing what I’m doing and how I do it, the answer is actually quite simple, there is so much potential in this world and the majority of it is going to waste. And what I have done over the years is to develop and continue to…
As I’m reading more and more about learning disabilities, the conclusion that I’m coming to is this: There are no learning disabilities, it’s the systems that people are in that creates the disabilities Do not get me wrong, people may have problems they need to overcome and blaming their failures on the system is a…
