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Reaching Our Limits
There will be moments when we don't have enough room to be our absolute best. When we're too tired, too emotionally exhausted,...

Hector Solis
Dec 24, 20201 min read


The Two Systems Model
When learning how to improve our social skills or engage with the environment in general, it's important to develop an outline that...

Hector Solis
Dec 23, 20201 min read


Attending and Empathy Skills
Intentional, Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society By Allen E. Ivey, Mary Bradford...

Hector Solis
Dec 22, 20202 min read


Consciousness
Consciousness, at its simplest, is "sentience or awareness of internal or external existence". Despite millennia of analyses,...

Hector Solis
Dec 21, 20201 min read


Deep, Identity Level Change
Many people come into this thinking that they can learn a sequence of magic lines, get the timing down, and - poof! - you’re fixed. The...

Hector Solis
Dec 20, 20201 min read


Neuroticism
Neuroticism (or emotional stability) is a trait in many models within personality theory, but there is a lot of disagreement on its...

Hector Solis
Dec 19, 20201 min read


Agreeableness
Agreeableness is a personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as kind, sympathetic,...

Hector Solis
Dec 18, 20202 min read


Getting Carried Away
The hamster wheel that is our own mind can keep us feeling motivated and self-stimulated; but at a cost. Sure it makes us feel good and...

Hector Solis
Dec 17, 20201 min read


Extraversion/Introversion
The traits of extraversion (or extroversion) and introversion are a central dimension in some human personality theories. The terms...

Hector Solis
Dec 16, 20201 min read


Conscientiousness
Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being careful, or diligent. Conscientiousness implies a desire to do a task well, and to...

Hector Solis
Dec 15, 20201 min read


Openness/Closed to Experience
Openness involves five facets, or dimensions, including active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner...

Hector Solis
Dec 14, 20201 min read


Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal communication is an exchange of information between two or more people. It is also an area of research that seeks to...

Hector Solis
Dec 13, 20201 min read


Investment
The resources that are at our disposal can be consumed to satisfy today's desires or be utilized for tomorrow's glory. Ideally, we would...

Hector Solis
Dec 12, 20201 min read


Frames
What is a “frame”? Your frame is how you perceive the world. It’s what you choose to focus on, and the meaning you assign to variables in...

Hector Solis
Dec 11, 20201 min read


Feedback, Not Failure
View all interactions as a learning experience. Success with socializing says nothing about who you are as a person, any more than any...

Hector Solis
Dec 10, 20201 min read


Mental Reboot
The mind is the set of faculties including cognitive aspects such as consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, intelligence,...

Hector Solis
Dec 9, 20202 min read


The Unconscious Mind
The unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind which occur automatically and are not available to...

Hector Solis
Dec 8, 20201 min read


Being Uninhibited
Imagine what it would be like to live without any resistance. Internally and externally, your vision of the world is without flaw and...

Hector Solis
Dec 7, 20202 min read


Quote from Intelligence and Spirit (Reza Negarestani, 2018)
Intelligence and Spirit (Reza Negarestani, 2018) “Put differently, the limits of the objective description of the human in the world are...

Hector Solis
Dec 6, 20201 min read


The Initial Process
I won’t lie to you. It's going to be ugly. In the early stages of any developmental process, we won’t be able to recognize ourselves as...

Hector Solis
Dec 5, 20201 min read
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