by Ela | Apr 7, 2014 | Learning, Nerdy, Pattern recognition, Patterns, Self mastery
Photo credit Fe Langdon, available on Flicker under Creative Commons. Today I want to write about a specific mindset. This mindset, once adopted, can help you grow effectively. Let me first tell you how I discovered it. The importance of a test I have been a...
by Ela | Aug 3, 2012 | Decisions, Learning, Pattern recognition, Stories
This post is dedicated to Inge and Bob who taught me about trust. Trust and faith are fundamental in our lives Trust opens you up and allows you to learn in a moment. Outside your comfort zone. Faith is a framework of your beliefs, in-flows and out-flows, approaches...
by Ela | Feb 29, 2012 | Learning, Nerdy, Pattern recognition, Performance
What is learning for you? Please pause for a second and define it for yourself before reading on. Is it about books? English was difficult Let me start with a story. When I was in the secondary school I was poor at English. I could not understand it why. I was very...
by Ela | Sep 30, 2011 | Learning, Pattern recognition, Understanding
Imagine your brain. Hopefully, you saw a picture of a human brain at some point in life so you can imagine it now ;). A rough idea is enough. The human brain The cerebrum with its gray matter is the largest part of your brain. It lies around most other structures of...
by Ela | Sep 23, 2011 | Decisions, How-to, Nerdy, Pattern recognition, Patterns
Photo courtesy Jamie Frith available under the Creative Commons license on Flickr. The series of posts on decision making: When are decisions consciously made? Rational decision making and the curse of dimensionality Emotional decision making and the Descartes’ error...
by Ela | Sep 15, 2011 | Decisions, Learning, Pattern recognition, Patterns, Performance
Are you the one who despises intuition, or are you the one who respects it? Are you the one who thinks intuition is a word coined to cover the criterion-free and otherwise arbitrary decisions? Are you the one who neglects the power of intuition in favor of a...