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An introduction to Zoom-Out and Planet Zoom
Finding broader and more helpful perspectives to boost wellbeing and performance In this increasingly connected, collaborative, dynamic and rapidly changing world, our ability to see…
Next Positive Action Zoom-Out
This SELF DIMENSION Zoom-Out emerged from a juncture of my passion for personal productivity and personal wellbeing. It combines elements from “Getting Things Done” by…
Past Self Zoom-Out
This Zoom-Out involves stepping back in time and looking forward to the present moment, your current situation, and considering how your past self would see…
How to find gratitude for what you have in any situation
As the title of this Zoom-Out says, things could be infinitely worse. You could not be here at all or never have even existed. The…
Karl Marx’s Epitaph as a call to act as well as see
This morning was a fresh and sunny end of March day and I am privileged enough to live very close to Highgate Cemetary in London.…
How to embrace change rather than resist it
One way to think about time is in relation to change. In fact, time and change are inseparable — the two are intertwined. Nothing can change without…
Sh*t Happens
Sh*t Happens There is a short phrase that I’ve been quite fond of in the context of project management and product development for years. Those two…
Who is responsible for your reality?
Let me ask you a question. Who is responsible for your reality? If you are unhappy about something, in other words, there is something about…
Zin & Zoot Evolved
Zin and Zoot are our friends from Planet Zoom. Or put another way, visual metaphors with anthropomorphic features that represent our Zoom-In and Zoom-Out abilities.…
Zin & Zoot Evolved
Zin and Zoot are our friends from Planet Zoom. Or put another way, visual metaphors with anthropomorphic features that represent our Zoom-In and Zoom-Out abilities.…
Derren Brown’s “Miracles” Zoom-Out
Derren Brown is undoubtedly Britain’s favourite “mentalist”. He’s built a career out of showing how easily people’s perceptions and actions can be manipulated. In his…
Right View
In Zoomology and as Zoomologists we speak of finding the most helpful perspective. Of seeking out the most helpful perspective in any given situation. This is…
The Mysterious Case of Free Will
Free will has endured a long run of, well, freedom. Could that time be at an end? Yet again, free will has been summoned before…
A wise monk’s powerful and simple formula for happiness
Do you have a formula for happiness? Last night someone suggested one to myself and around 500 other people. The suggestion came from a wise…
Einstein’s profoundly useful insight on reality versus experience
One of the things I really enjoy about exploring and researching Zoom-Out is how it crosses multiple schools of thought – spans multiple genres (it’s…
Sleep Well
It’s well established and well documented that one of the key wellbeing and performance boosting activities is… Sleep zzzzzzz It’s also a powerful Zoom-Out enabler…
Happy Easter
Happy Easter from the Zoom-Out team! We hope you and your family have a wonderful break! It doesn’t look like we will be seeing much sunshine this…
The Greatest Gift
What’s the greatest gift you can give to someone? The greatest gift you can give to everyone you know and everyone you meet? A gift…
Read Obituaries
When I was young and living at home with my parents, we had the local newspaper delivered every day. I was once a “Paper Boy”…
The Blue Marble
This image literally caused the whole world to Zoom-Out. The Blue Marble is an image of the Earth made on December 7, 1972, by the…
Attention Bubble
UNFINISHED Life often demands that we give our attention to unpleasant things. Like smoke that contaminates the air we breathe, sometimes the best strategy, when…
Martian Postcard
A writer friend of mine recently gave me a sheet of A4 paper and said, “Here, read this martian poem”. I expected to see some…
Pale Blue Dot
The greatest selfie ever taken? From a Zoom-Out perspective, certainly. Also the greatest distance – you’d need a very long selfie-stick indeed to beat this…
Out of Time – a Zoom-Out Parable
A Zoomologists tale… From up here, Jim could see for miles. In fact, as the cliche goes, he could exclaim, “I can see my house…
The Blind Men And The Elephant (poem)
This ancient parable of the blind men and an elephant is pure Zoom-Out. There have been subtle variations of the parable over the ages. Its roots can…
William Blake as Zoomologist
To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an…
‘This Is Water’ by David Foster Wallace
“This Is Water” is pure Zoom-Out. It is the title given to a commencement speech (and later a derived written publication) given by David Foster Wallace…
Art as Zoom-Out
Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) on art as Zoom-Out: “[Art] unsettles us awake, disrupts our deadening routines, enlarges our reservoir of hope by enlarging our perspective,…
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Sandsend [poem]
Sandsend Oceans new beat oceans pastAcross the seas of moments lost.Walk with me in the here and nowDiscover the golden life in the cold rock.Cliffs…
Jimi Hendrix as Zoomologist
The story of life is quickerThan the wink of an eyeThe story of love is hello and goodbyeUntil we meet again. – Jimi Hendrix, 1970
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Peering at the inner workings of the universe [art]
This is a modification of the Flammarion wood engraving by an unknown artist. It is referred to as the Flammarion Woodcut because its first documented appearance…