Why I Love The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz

Last week I wrote about mindfulness and how we can use it to stay focused on what is actually happening, without inserting our past-based judgments and interpretations into our experiences as we do when we are on automatic pilot. Mindfulness empowers us to make more appropriate and productive choices because we are reacting to what

6 Mar, 2014
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The Mind and Technology

An excerpt from the Introduction to my upcoming book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available for pre-order atAmazon. Imagine what it was like living in 1491 when people thought the Earth was flat and that if you went to the edge of it you would fall off.

4 Mar, 2014
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Why Is It That When We Are Mindful, We Are at Peace— as Opposed to the Constant “Pinball Game” That Goes through Our Mind When We Are on Automatic Pilot Listening to the Voice in Our Head?

Yesterday I was in an important negotiation meeting and reminded myself that I must “let go of my attachment to my point of view, listen to what the other side is suggesting, and be open to possibility!” In other words, I was telling myself to be mindful. Being mindful means actually being in the

27 Feb, 2014
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My Recommendation for a Great Book about the Future

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the most important books I’ve read in years. I was in my 30s when I read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and The Third Wave, and they were epiphanies for me. Toffler discussed the physical, psychological, and social

20 Feb, 2014
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Being a Frog in Hot Water

When I was a kid one of my teachers explained that if a frog was placed in a pan of lukewarm water that was put on the stove with the flame on simmer, the frog would acclimate as the temperature rose and would eventually perish when the water got too hot. The story stuck

13 Feb, 2014
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