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Common Thinking Traps – Correlation and Causation

by Stephen Mills January 25, 2010
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They key lesson here is to not just automatically assume that because the media reports that people who do A are more likely to experience B, means that A is causing B. It pays to be skeptical of media reports, books, and gurus when they imply something correlated indicates a casual link. This is especially true if it sounds like something that was just dug out of data or surveys and not the subject of proper experiments. If you care about the issue, you should look deeper into the studies.

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A Minute

by Stephen Mills January 22, 2010

I have only just a minute,
Only sixty seconds in it.
Forced upon me, can’t refuse it.
Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it.
But it’s up to me
to use it.
I must suffer if I lose it.
Give account if I abuse it.

Just a tiny little minute,
but eternity is in it.

– Anonymous
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Mental Models and the Construction of Your Reality

by Stephen Mills January 20, 2010
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All transformation begins and ends with mental models. Because these models dictate how you act under different circumstances and how you interpret the events that happen in your life, when you change the model, you change your life.

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Themes For The Coming Year

by Stephen Mills December 23, 2009
Calendar

The following are the things I’m going to focus on in the coming year.  I’m sharing them with you because I think they are things that would benefit almost anyone.  So consider these my recommendations to you as well.
Spend More Time in the Real World
The virtual world has a variety and reach that is often [...]

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May I Have Your Attention Please

by Stephen Mills December 19, 2009
Currency

What’s the point of me telling you all of this? What you pay attention to matters and it matters a great deal. It matters much more than you think. Even when you are not consciously aware of it, the biggest and most powerful part of your brain is cranking away on what you tell your brain is important. Your non-conscious brain decides what is is important based upon what you are pointing your attention towards. What you are paying attention to now in some degree determines what your non-conscious mind will be paying attention to in the future.

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Are We Disconnecting From Real Life?

by Stephen Mills December 13, 2009
Online

Technology is making meeting the needs of our daily existence easier, but it certainly isn’t making life overall easier. I think technology is creating such an unnatural environment for human beings to exist in that our minds and bodies can’t take it. We are not made to be connected 24/7, socializing through a computer, living in a concrete jungle, and up all night in the artificial lights. Our brains are exhausted from over stimulation of the unnatural kind.

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A Values-Based Approach to Goals

by Stephen Mills December 2, 2009
Goals

I used to have a goal that said I wanted to have to be rich and to me than meant having X million dollars. When I asked myself why I wanted to be rich, the answer was because I wanted freedom and I wanted stuff. I thought then and I still do that money can buy you freedom that people with less money don’t have. I’m not sure I want the stuff anymore. Regardless of whether you agree or not, the key point here is that money is not really a value to me. Money is a goal and the value is freedom. That’s a core value to me and has been for as long as I can remember.

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What I’m Thankful For

by Stephen Mills November 27, 2009

Sure I’m thankful for family, friends, health, and everything else obvious everyone else is listing.  But I’m also thankful for some other things.

That I’m alive in the 21st century
That I do not suffer the debilitating mental disease of victimization that is sweeping the world
That I am endlessly fascinated by science and nature
That some people read [...]

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Radiolab Podcasts Recommendation

by Stephen Mills November 3, 2009

I thought I would drop you a quick note on a recommendation.  I’ve been listening to these Radiolab podcasts in my car ever since Seth Godin recommended them.  They are not all great, but a good number of them are really wonderful.  Their website has several years of them archived.  I find that the longer [...]

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Helping Others While Helping Yourself

by Stephen Mills October 15, 2009
Helping Others

What if everyone took care of themselves to the extent possible while acting in a generally kind and helpful way toward every ones else, including the other creatures of the earth? What if we treated ourselves and each other as individuals each with a right and a basic need to pursue our own interests without trampling on one another? What a wonderful world it might be.

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