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Posted in Dynamic Living, Gifted adults, Personal development, Social ease, Theory on Aug 29th, 2009
This is my second post to announce the addition of article ‘reprints’ from Dynamic Living. This time there are only three, but all three are pretty meaty. That means that once again these are much longer than typical posts and cover these topics: Prorexia: a cure for a jaded appetite for life. How to maintain […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Essential information, Theory on Aug 26th, 2009
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.” Those words by Alexander Pope were published in 1734. They are part of a poem whose psychological and philosophical content anticipates contemporary ideas of human nature so comprehensively that in some ways it seems extraordinary that we haven’t made greater […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Essential information, Gifted adults, Personal development, Social ease, Theory on Aug 23rd, 2009
This is a short post to announce the addition of the first article ‘reprints’ from Dynamic Living. I’ve included a full index but I’ve only had time to add links to the first six articles. These articles tend to be much longer than typical posts and cover these topics: What is Dynamic Living? Issues for […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Gifted adults, Personal development, Social ease, Theory on Aug 19th, 2009
The presenter on corporate social responsibility was a quiet young woman. Her presentation was excellent: informative, business-specific and carefully considered. The audience of senior managers was at first skeptical and then drawn into her conclusions. She had won them over. Until . . . The first question from the floor was very positive: “How do […]
Posted in Physical on Aug 17th, 2009
I watched the oh-so-gifted Usain Bolt shatter his own 100m world record this morning. The extraordinary beauty of his movement as he went into top speed was breathtaking. Keats might not have been there to see it but this is surely what he meant when he wrote: ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Social ease, Theory on Aug 16th, 2009
I was working as an independent marketing consultant. I’d completed a highly original and very valuable study for a major international corporation. They were delighted and launched a North American subsidiary on the back of it. I thought I could apply the same study model to other prospective clients. I took a carefully prepared copy, […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Theory on Aug 12th, 2009
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” Wendell […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Social ease on Aug 2nd, 2009
Gifted and creative individuals often have a hard time at parties – or any other social gathering – for these reasons: – Their sense of the value of time makes it hard for them to communicate without a specific purpose. So if they’re not looking for a hook-up or a job, for example, they become […]