Psychology and Relationships
By Reverend Keith on March 12, 2010
A wonderful talk on happiness by a very clear and lucid presenter who is completely new to me, Srikumar Rao. I’m certainly going to check out more of his material. I ran into this on Ted.org, but the video there was of lower quality so I’ve linked back here to the original. This was apparently [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts, Spirituality Posts, Videos | Tagged Contentment, Happiness, Mindfullness, Srikumar Rao
By Reverend Keith on March 3, 2010
I’m recently returned from a week-long conference of study and test-taking in the field of database design (my day-job), and find my mind completely burnt-out by the effort. Rather than wait till I feel especially inspired and creative, I’m going to adapt a lesson from one of my classes.
The class was on “agile” programming. I’ll [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Organization Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts | Tagged Creativity, perfectionism, Procrastination
By Reverend Keith on February 23, 2010
So, I’m at a keynote speech in Las Vegas at a conference about data warehouses. I wasn’t really expecting to find good material for self-improvement here, but Frank Buytendijk, a Dutch management consultant at Oracle, surprised me. The point of his talk was that we Americana have a fear and aversion to “problems” that [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Organization Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts | Tagged Communication, Conflict, Problems
By Reverend Keith on February 18, 2010
Today I bring you a very qualified endorsement for a very popular book – The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Greene is basically a modern-day Machiavelli, and his book is about how to acquire and hold onto power, by any means available. I nearly put the book down after reading the preface, with [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Organization Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts, Reviews | Tagged Power
By Reverend Keith on February 17, 2010
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.. (1 Jn 4:18 NKJV)
While fear is less and less a part of my life, there are still several situations that can cause me to panic. One is hypodermic [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts, Spirituality Posts | Tagged Fear, love, Meditation, OBE
By Reverend Keith on February 12, 2010
So, Valentine’s day is upon us and you still need a wonderful gift. Why not try something that shows more personal effort than a card and will be treasured for years? Poetry makes a wonderful gift, it costs only your time and it is deeply appreciated – even if it isn’t very good (trust [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts | Tagged Romance Poetry Gifts
By Reverend Keith on February 9, 2010
Today I wanted to inaugurate a new section of Pathstoknowledge.com – our video theater. I have previously used video links in various sections and book reviews when available. Now I thought I’d devote a new section to inspiring video messages, beginning with this “Ted” talk by Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard on the Habits of Happiness
This video was [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts, Spirituality Posts, Videos | Tagged Happiness
By Reverend Keith on February 7, 2010
The Soulmate Secret by Arielle Ford. As I am coming up on my 28th wedding anniversary, I wasn’t particularly in the market for a book on attracting a soulmate. But I saw this book in the “New” section of the library and thought it would be worth reviewing for the benefit of the many people [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts, Reviews, Spirituality Posts | Tagged Ariella Ford, love, Romance, Soulmate, The Secret
By Reverend Keith on February 4, 2010
Nutureshock: New Thinking about Children, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. I’ve been listening to this one on CD for the last week, and it’s been eye-opening. I already shared a little from the book in my post titled Never Tell Kids They’re Smart.
Basically the book re-examines what we THOUGHT we knew about parenting [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts, Reviews | Tagged Children, Learning
By Reverend Keith on January 29, 2010
I’ve been listening to a new audio book on child psychology, Nurtureshock. I hope to give a full review shortly, but each chapter is absolutely fascinating, and I thought I’d share a few of the insights along the way. Right out of the gate, the book’s research contradicts the established “wisdom” of the last few decades, [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Psychology and Relationships Posts | Tagged Children, Self Esteem