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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
The Perfect Map
What is the single greatest source of missed opportunity, frustration, anxiety and stress? Here, we explore this through the power of storytelling. Sit back and…
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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 felt sorry for itself. –…
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 goes unnoticed. The power itself is…
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 his experiences when taking mescaline.…
Dead Cactus
Metaphors help us to make sense of the world. Metaphors are also useful thinking and communication tools which we can use in business as well…
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 “wasps” are more perennial however.…
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 the most of ourselves and…