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Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Food for thought: Malcolm Gladwell.

This short clip is from something I read on Malcolm Gladwell’s blog.

Successful people, he says, must begin with two beliefs–”that the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.” I completely agree.

I’m posting it here for two reasons.
1. I think it is some good [...]

Just wondering about Apple post Jobs

For a few days now the Internet has been buzzing about the health (or lack there of) of Apple computer’s iconic “larger than life” CEO Steve Jobs.
Lots of people seem to be asking if Apple is too tied to the Jobster. If the stick price is any indication, it sure seem like the answer [...]

Prior Authority getting it wrong

From the book: Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition
I found another interesting notion about authority in this reading. Irvin Yalom (the author of this book) is talking about doing research into effective forms of group therapy, and therpay in general. As he is doing this research he sees things in what [...]

Ideas on Human Freedom.

I’ve been reaing a book about the ideas of Irvin D. Yalom, who is one of the all stars of the human service field.
One of the many ideas in this book that I personally find fascinating has to do with human freedom.
At one point this idea is expressed

indeed, the therapeutic [...]