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The Emotional Life of Your Brain – Book Review
Are you feeling gloomy and miserable? Neuropsychologist Richard Davidson and science writer Sharon Begley book “The Emotional Life of Your Brain” may provide you with some insight into your emotions...
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Thinking and Music
How do you use your iPod music library? What sort of music do you listen to when you drive to work? Is it different from when you drive home from work? And what do you listen to while you are …...
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World Thinkers’ Ideas – Panic and Icy Roads
Have you ever driven on icy roads and slammed the brakes? The best approach to icy roads is to avoid sudden braking, turning the wheel, or acceleration. Antonio Damasio interviewed a patient with brain...
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Feelings and Emotions are Not the Same
neither are Thinking and Feeling. But many of us have difficulties describing the differences. And more importantly seeing the benefits of understanding the importance. Let’s have a look what Alan...
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Emotional Vampires
Judith Orloff’s says that if you want to be emotionally free you cannot remain naïve about relationships. Some people create a positive atmosphere but other can suck the optimism out of you and your...
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Elaborated Concepts of Feelings
In many cultures, people have developed basic human feelings and emotions into elaborated art forms. Sometimes feelings and emotions has been given names such as The Blues in North America, Saudade in...
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If-Then
Great athletes create amazing performances with unbelievable consistency. Composed, mentally tough, emotionally controlled or simply determined and focused. Have you set your goals? Do you know what...
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Innovations, Emotions and Body Language
Emotional insight is a key to innovation. Surprised? Well, it is often not the first aspect that is examined when discussing innovations but emotions fuels it in two significant ways. An understanding...
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Robots, Evolution and Emotions
Can a robot evolve? Or is it chained to the insides of a program? Names like Incher, Jitter and Wings, hit that the robots may not be simply ordinary robots. The Cornell Creative Machines Lab has...
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Unspeakableness
Ah, it is annoying when you cannot find the right words! If you have tried to explain something in a foreign language, you might have found it impossible to find the right words in the other language....
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Too Many Emails – Thinkibility Nibble
Friday – at last you do not have to check all your emails. Or are you going to check them this weekend? In this RSA animate video, David Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft, talks about...
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Thin-slicing : the power of intuition – Thinkibility Boost
Building up Intuition is “thin-slicing” In an earlier post, we discussed the relation between Reasoning and Intuition on the basis of Kahneman’s two interrelated thinking systems. One is fast,...
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Dance First
“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.” Samuel Becket A dancer uses his or her body to express emotions, feelings and moods. Body language can be exaggerated and a dancer uses the body...
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Feelings Are An Asset To Thinking
Many people have the opinion that feelings distract thinking, and the best is to get rid of them. We came across a view from Dennis Perrin who in contrast states: “Feelings are an asset to thinking”....
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T29 – Day 14
Day 14 – Emotions Watch a TV programme with the sound switch off. Try to describe the characters emotions by watching their facial expression and body language. Learning to understand and becoming...
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T29 – Day 15
Day 15- Emotions Express different emotions – at will. See if you can identify the emotions in the picture below. Answers can be found here. Photo Now go to a mirror and exercise the basic emotions...
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T29 – Day 13
Emotions Day 13-15 Emotional insight is a key to innovation. Surprised? Well, it is often not the first aspect that is examined when discussing innovations but emotions fuels it in two significant...
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Twisted Faces and Emoijs!
How do you know which emoticon to use? An emoticon is a pictorial representation of facial expressions. These little pictorial images are an important tool to use when communicating by using...
View ArticleYour Ultimate Summer Thinkibility Nibble
We are still wondering why "thinking" (Thinkibility) is not given much attention as a phenomenon in itself, except by some philosophers who have made thinking, without necessity, a highly complex and...
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