Entries Tagged as ‘Human Potential’

6 February 2008

Richard Bandler: The Hypnotist videos

One of Neurolinguistic Programming’s daddies, Richard Bandler rewiring a woman’s phobic reaction to flying and small spaces.
Every sentence that comes out of this guy’s mouth is just loaded with suggestion, presupposition and all the other behaviour-modifying lingiuistic patterns. The fast hypnotic induction he does — the hand on her head, she goes under — is [...]

30 January 2008

The DIY Degree

An old essay, but new for me, from William Upski Wimsatt, about how to learn:
Here’s my curriculum: Live in a different city every year. Attend a
different place of worship every week. Seek out hundreds of mentors to help
me find answers to my thousands of questions. Spend the rest of the time in
the library and on [...]

29 January 2008

Increasing Intelligence — The website

Wow. I’m impressed by this site. An elegant and, well, intelligent ‘How to’, with a clear premise and whole lot of links to other great sites.
Front page quote:
//three ways to increase your intelligence
1. Continually expand the scope, source, intensity of the information you receive.
2. Constantly revise your reality maps, and seek new metaphors about [...]