All Posts Tagged With: "diary"

Last weekend Mrs Mindmap insisted that I go through my CD selection and get rid of at least ten albums. When she returned, I was surrounded by fifteen piles of CDs, each one with a specific genre. Thoughtful background music to help me concentrate; classic songs from my university years, music with lyrics that I [...]

On our last day off, Mrs Mindmap woke me up and announced that we were going on a walk to catch the last of the sunshine. It wasn’t exactly my idea for the day but seeing the steely determination on her face I agreed, and dressed for the outdoors. We took a route that we [...]

I’ve been thinking recently about gifting. It seems to me that the world’s mindset is obsessed with talent. TV is full of dance competitions and singing competitions, and our whole education system is geared towards training skills and abilities to make people more employable. With all this highly developed talent, you’d think we’d be happy [...]

You don’t have to train a kid to be bad! You don’t get tempted to give more to Oxfam. You don’t get tempted to look for Monasteries on the internet. Our Minds emerge within us with a bias like a bowling ball. It’s a bias towards self protection, self reliance, self centeredness and self promotion.
It’s [...]

Our brains are habit forming! Do something for 70 days and you can develop a new habit that’s hard to break. The habit of staying upright on a bicycle is hard to break once you’ve ‘got’ it. The habit of smoking, explosions of anger, patience and rubbing your hands together can be both created and [...]