Articles in self-improvement
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of …
The Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
It was created by Salman Khan and provides a free online collection of more than 2,000 …
Why We Do What We Do?
What really motivates us? This is the question the two following great speakers try to answer:
1) Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone’s actions.
In the first video Tony Robbins discusses why we do …
What is Intelligence?
While Jeff Hawkins was creating the Palm Pilot, launching the era of handheld computing and amassing hundreds of millions of dollars, a big part of his mind was somewhere else: His true passion is something …
Where Good Ideas Come From
Here’s a great video teaser (4min) for Steven Johnson’s book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation:
Watch this video on YouTube
In this book Johnson provides the complete, …
Born To Run
A while ago I got myself a pair of Vibram Five Fingers Shoes (the KSO model) to try the new trend of barefoot (or nearly barefoot) running. After a week or so and feeling pain …
