This is the third post in a WP challenge (“Bloganuary”) to write something every day throughout January with the aid of a prompt. The above title is the prompt. We tend to think of a comfort zone as some kind of homogeneous place where we feel at ease. I think that it is helpful to… Read More The Last Time I Left my Comfort Zone
After years of extensive research, I am pleased to launch my Gullibility Test in time for Christmas. Population norms have been derived from thousands of questionnaires completed on-line, and the well-established Lubinski algorithm has been modified to obtain the unique Gullibility Quotient. The GQ has the potential to revolutionalise recruitment across a wide range of… Read More Dr Derek’s Test of Gullibility
Research into brain science and the mind has historically had to navigate between two conflicting assertions. The first arose in ancient Greece – “Know Thyself”, as inscribed at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. The second comes from Zen teachings – “Mind trying to know itself is like a sword trying to cut itself”. These… Read More Filosofy on Friday – The Self-Sharpening Brain
Today’s Writing 101 Challenge – to write about a personal fear as a vehicle for putting your personality on the page, perhaps by using a different style of writing… My fear may appear trivial to some people. It does not amount to a fully-fledged phobia, although it does share some characteristics. In particular, a marked… Read More Fear
Today’s Writing 101 challenge – take take a nearby book, open at page 29, note the most striking word on that page, and then write a letter that incorporates it in some way… Dear Corpus Humani, Well, you really think you’re something don’t you? What kind of person gives themselves a Latin name, for goodness… Read More A Letter
It is time to speak up about the travesty that is salad garnish. It is a staple of pub menus, seemingly adding an air of sophistication and faux healthiness to what is basically a large plate of ham, egg and chips. And now to the reality. It consists of lettuce curled at the edges and… Read More The Truth About Salad Garnish
An interesting encounter in Bedford Market today – someone holding a placard advertising free dream interpretation. I stopped on my way back to ask about the thinking behind this venture – I did not get a definitive answer – but did not have time to explore it further. I was eager to share my recurring… Read More Tell Me Your Dreams
There seems to be a theme developing over my last couple of posts. I was sitting at the desk in my office today oblivious to everything – as is often the case at work – but I was alert enough to recognise that my view of the world was quickly changing. I had not experienced… Read More Going Down in the World
Not the best or most edifying start to my working week. The rain did not help. Nor the bright glare of the low winter sun when I was trying to find a place to park my car in the little town of Leighton Buzzard. I left it in a supermarket car park with a plan… Read More Walking and Not Walking in Leighton Buzzard
Beach life has a special allure. It is the coming together and constant interplay of fire, water, earth and air; an elemental experience that reaches deep within; we feel our hearts resonate with the shifting rhythm patterns of waves breaking on the shore, or gently caressing the sand, spreading like the hands of a masseur,… Read More Derek’s Guide to Beach Life
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