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Now I am reading a new book that is pretty interesting, Bursts by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. It’s about the hidden patterns in life, and how they express themselves in everything that we do. I think that many people feel like we understand ourselves, but I’ll bet that this book sheds light about what happens inside our mind.

I just started reading it, but I already found some pretty and useful information. He talks about the mystery of why pollen moves around randomly when placed in a dish of water. Around 1900 this was a big mystery, because the idea of the atom was just a theory, and people didn’t know what force could move a tiny object suspended in water.

What does this have to do with our lives?

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Yesterday I discovered Cooliris, which might just be the coolest thing I have ever seen. It’s an extension for browsers (Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari) that lets you see all the images in a virtual wall. It is absolutely incredible.

I love Cooliris because it is so neat. But there is more to it. We have talked quite a bit about accelerating technology, and that is a powerful force in our lives. Yet there is another piece of the puzzle that most people are totally unaware of: how we interact with technology.

What does Cooliris teach us about how to interact with technology?

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What is neuro-linguistic programming?

Neuro-linguistic Programming, or NLP as it’s more commonly known, is a psychological approach to improve mental performance. Practitioners say that an increase in physical and spiritual performance follows after you begin NLP training.

Basically–and probably a little too superficially put–NLP examines your self-talk and then offers ways to re-program this inner talk that is more aligned with achievement.

The question is: can NLP be used to improve your trading and investing performance?

According to Charles Faulkner of New Market Wizards, NLP can help traders and investors.

When we change those programs, just as when we change or upgrade software, we immediately get positive changes in our performance. We get immediate improvements in how we think, feel, act and live.

Turtle Trader explains that NLP fits in with the overall philosophy that trading skills are teachable.

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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

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I’m not a great gardener. But one thing I’ve learned is that if you want to create long-lasting change in your garden or lawn, you have to go below the surface. You have to dig deep into the roots where the problems and opportunities lie.

If the roots of a weed are not plucked out, the plant will grow back. Likewise, if the roots of the flower or grass seed do not receive the nourishment of fertilizer and water, they will wither away.

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Was 2009 a trying year financially for you?

Possibly. But that may be a good thing. Poor economies usually teach us more about smart financial living than good economies, which usually teach us to throw our money at stuff we’ll never use.

There were plenty of lessons on personal finance and personal growth brought to us by the blogosphere and other areas of the internet.

I’ve collected some of the best personal finance and personal growth posts of 2009 in hopes that these lessons stay with us in 2010–no matter what the economic conditions.

*Note: This is a very unofficial ranking. And the internet is an exponentially-growing sea of information. So, I may have missed a few good posts. If you have a favorite personal finance or personal growth post that really inspired you, please add it in the comment section.

Thanks! Here’s to a wise 2010 for you!

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Yesterday, we talked about how your beliefs can attract wealth. Not only do your thoughts influence your investing and saving habits on a personal level, but these beliefs, in a collective sense, can cause macroeconomic changes.

But can your thoughts attract debt?

It seems so. Your spending behavior is directed by your beliefs. Financial psychologists say that, like most mental processes, these beliefs can be complex and often contrarian. Thoughts and beliefs about debt are the most complicated.

You probably think that debt comes from over-confidence, or financial hubris. You’re spending money you don’t have because you’re sure the resources to repay the debt will be there one day… some day. But that may not be the case.

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Another great week for free learning.

This week I’ve come across wisdom that runs the gamut, from practical advice on owning company stock to how to turn on the pimping power of the Internet.

It’s probably not what you think. Here’s a sample:

The internet has the power to do so many things for you. And I’d like to show you how to set it up so you don’t have to think anymore. Let’s leave the thinking to the ones that want to think: the computers.

Another interesting thought comes from BoingBoing. When videos use unlicensed music, record companies usually freak out and sue. As you’ll read, when a video of a wedding entrance went viral the record company that owned the song did a smart, smart thing that might indicate that new business models are created when people stop being stupid.

So, let’s get at the links.

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When financial distress hits, you notice one thing: people freeze.

The ease of accepting new thoughts and new ideas vanish. They resort to old thinking.

It’s probably a comfort thing. Once you’re stressed, you want to avoid more stress and new situations and new ideas can be uncomfortable and stressful.

We resist risk.

Unfortunately, this is the exact time that you should embrace risk. In the words of Kris Kristofferson by way of Janis Joplin.

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left  to lose.

And, perhaps, when you ain’t got nothing, you got everything to win.

If you feel this way, this is a time for a financial “beginner’s mind.”

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Many people love to minimize the incredible power of our imagination. Imaginary friends are the domain of children, and daydreaming in fantasy is the mark of a lazy employee. At least that’s what people think. I suggest to you, quite the opposite is true.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. – Einstein

As a matter of fact, one of the Einstein’s greatest breakthroughs started when he was sitting in class bored out of his mind. As he stared at the clock, he imagined what it would be like to travel on a beam of light. From this silly thought, emerged the thinking of one of the most powerful minds in history.

Many people think that Einstein’s success was due to his genius. But I suggest to you something else. Is it possible that Einstein was able to change the world not because he was smarter, but because he used his mind in a different way? Maybe he was able to change the world because he believed in his imagination.

Intelligence is not a prerequisite for success. You don’t have to be smarter to succeed at anything. Because success is dependent not on skill, but on strategy. And most strategies for success are very simple, and can be easily learned by anyone.

Maybe we can even learn to use the same skills that Einstein used. Perhaps one of the skills for success is to use our imagination and believe it can help us in powerful ways. Perhaps anyone can make the same powerful mark in history by imagining the way Einstein did.

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George recently wrote a post about the brain’s similarity to a computer.

There are neuroanatomists, like Jill Bolte Taylor, who back up George’s premise and, in fact, believe that the brain behaves as a parallel processor (right hemisphere) and a serial processor (left hemisphere).

I’d like to take this analogy one step further: if the brain is a computer, could the MIND be a quantum computer? A quantum algorithm uses superposition (or quantum entanglement) to work on data exponentially. Whereas a regular computer operates on single bits, a quantum computer, technically speaking, can use qubits to manipulate multiple operations at the same time.

Stuart Hameroff, a anesthesiologist, and Sir Richard Penrose, a quantum physicist, say that at the nano-scale level the brain is engaging in quantum computations. This is so fundamental, the researchers suggest that the brain is literally wired into reality.

Is this the point where the brain becomes the mind?

There are those, like Hameroff and Penrose, who think so, but other scientists still aren’t sure. Consciousness remains the hardest soft science.

By the way, Hameroff doesn’t believe that the Singularity will happen, stating that AI won’t be able to compete with the quantum computational operations in the human brain–or mind. However, he doesn’t address whether AI could be used to augment the mind.

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