Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’
The Plight of the Ego Coach
Renowned Neuroscientist V S Ramachandran is known for working with strange cases. He lives on the edges of his field, attacking the cases that everyone else puts off as anomalies. One such case, as discussed in the book Thinking, is the problem of synesthesia. In patients with this issue, their senses merge so when they…
Read MoreWhat’s your bias?
What’s your bias? There’s an interesting phenomenon that occurs when we start discussing what is important to a particular outcome, which is very much a result of our innate psychological need to value our knowledge and our selves. As someone who has his hat in many different areas of sports performance and who recently has…
Read MoreLessons from outside the running world
This is going to be an interesting attempt at a blog. One that takes seemingly unrelated subjects and ties them into my main focus, running. If you were to flip through any of the myriad of books I’ve read on some pretty random subjects, you’d see the margins littered up and down with notes. If…
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