Dealing with diatribe

Dealing with diatribe

  Diatribe, also known as “Ad hominem attacks” is when someone attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of a person making an argument rather than addressing the substance of the argument itself. Diatribe is the “nemesis” of dialogue; the latter is...
Personality Questionnaires

Personality Questionnaires

  The results of personality questionnaires depend on how you answer the questions; in fact, most of the associated reports start with something like, “the information used to generate this report was obtained solely from the questionnaire you completed”. The...
Staying in the zone

Staying in the zone

  Staying in the zone is not easy and we are sometimes our own worst enemy! I went out for a run today and after about a kilometre or so I could feel the “bounce”; I was in my stride and could feel myself bouncing from my left to right foot and back? Strangely,...
Feedback

Feedback

  Feedback may be the breakfast of champions, but not everyone knows how to makes eggs over easy that do not give indigestion Being open to receiving feedback is not always easy, we all go through the Shock Anger Rejection Acceptance cycle; with some getting to...
Interpretation

Interpretation

  “There is no truth. There is only perception” Gustave Flaubert I often hear people say that “we have different perceptions of the same event” or “we clearly don’t see things the same way”, etc. The word Perception comes from Latin “perception” meaning gathering...
Zone time

Zone time

  There is no next time, there is no last time, there is only zone time. Zone times are those magic moments when you are firing on all cylinders; you are physically fired up, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned. You are sitting atop of...