“Next Positive Action” Zoom-Out
When ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)’ arise, focus on what you can control Q. What ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts’ are arising and
“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
Right View
In Zoomology and as Zoomologists we speak of finding the most helpful perspective. Of seeking out the most helpful perspective in
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
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
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Attention Bubble
UNFINISHED Life often demands that we give our attention to unpleasant things. Like smoke that contaminates the air we breathe,
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
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
‘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)
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
The Perfect Map
What is the single greatest source of missed opportunity, frustration, anxiety and stress? Here, we explore this through the power
Self Pity [poem]
Self-Pity I never saw a wild thingsorry for itself.A small bird will drop frozen dead from a boughwithout ever having
Tame the “Golden-eyed monster”
As humans we are endowed with an incredible power. One that we all too often take for granted. The power itself
The Doors of Perspective
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details
Dead Cactus
Metaphors help us to make sense of the world. Metaphors are also useful thinking and communication tools which we can
The Wasp Sting Zoom-Out
Here in the UK summer is in the air and the buzz of wasps is often heard. In life, metaphorical
Emotional Reappraisal Zoom-Out (David Rock)
I’m a big fan of David Rock and his passion for understating how the brain works in order to help us make