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TTE 174 – Internal dialogue and medicine for the soul

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
At last week’s Resilient Young Minds conference, my friend and colleague Dr Rani Bora gave a beautiful talk called, “No-one Is Broken.” Rani’s a psychiatrist, and she explained that the word “psychiatry” means “medicine for the soul (it comes from the words “psyche” meaning soul and “iatre” meaning medicine). Then she asked this question:

“What medicine does a soul need? I’m posing that to you, because how will we ever find it? Will it come in lotions, in potions? Is it going to be tablets, capsules? And in what dose? As physicians, one of the things we have is a prescription pad. And a wise physician once said, “If someone is really struggling, give them love.” He was asked what to do if that doesn’t work, and he replied, “Increase the dose.”

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TTE 173 – Zurich, schizophrenia and revolution

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
Today I’m in Zurich, speaking at the Ignite business conference https://www.ignite-movement.com/conference-2018 at the University of St Gallen on the subject of purpose. Then on Friday, I’m in the southwest of England speaking at the Resilient Young Minds conference (the in-room places are sold out, but you can still get a live-stream ticket if you want to join us – book your place here https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theclayfactory/185546). I’m going to be painting a vision for the future, and I’m reminded once again that the principles Sydney Banks discovered represent a paradigm shift; a genuine revolution for the field of psychology. To get a sense of what a true paradigm shift really means, I’m reflecting on this passage from John Waller’s excellent book, The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed The Way We Think About Disease.

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TTE 172 – Tampons, truth and the news

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
This one’s from John Stuart Mill’s book, On Liberty:

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion… Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them…he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”

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TTE 171 – Trump, Halloween and Galileo

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
One of the things I love about working with the principles behind clarity is the power and simplicity of it. I see my job as a coach and trainer as being able to help create the optimal conditions for my clients to have the insights and realisations from within that will make a practical, go-forwards difference in their lives. And while this ‘job description’ isn’t quite right (for instance, insights aren’t conditional), it’s the best I’ve come up with so far. Of course, it’s nothing new; the trailblazing astronomer, physicist and mathematician, Galileo was saying it 400 years ago:

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TTE 170 – Miracles, jellyfish and realising potential

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
In 1999, I was given a copy of Sydney Banks’ book, The Missing Link. I dismissed it as lightweight and ‘stuff I already knew’. I read it again 5 years later and dismissed it again. Then, in 2009, it hit me. Sydney Banks’ book is now one of my favourites. I was reading it a couple of nights ago, and as I read the one-page introduction, I fell out of my thinking and into the truth of the moment; a profound insight that’s nourishing me still. Here’s the introduction. By now, Syd’s work has brought second chances to countless people’s lives:

“There are those in this world who believe miracles do not happen. I can assure such skeptics that they do. With hope and faith as beacons, anything can happen. If these writings bring a second chance of life to just one human being, my work has not been in vain.”

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TTE 169 – Nazis, propaganda and resilience

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
David Bohm is one of the great physicists of the 20th century. As well as authoring the standard text on quantum mechanics, he wrote a number of books that explored the domain of consciousness and philosophy, including the extraordinary Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Here’s something he said that strikes me afresh every time I think of it.

“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.”

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TTE 168 – Hope, nightclubs and the second frame of reference

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
On last weekend’s Clarity Coach Training, we were listening to a Syd Banks recording which really touched me. I spoke about it with the group the next day and (as you’ll see shortly) it became the jumping off point for a very special experience the next day. Here’s the thing Syd Banks said that really struck me: Read More →

TTE 167 – Kidding, Holiday and the Future of Education

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
Here’s a quote from Quillette founder Claire Lehmann on the future of education (something I’m extremely interested in).

“The future of education for young adults will be online. Smart kids will easily find mentors & tutorials in their area of interest. But the one thing that online learning can’t replicate is human connection–so we will need to invest in summits, etc”

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TTE 166 – Maps, Zaps and Trombones

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Jamie Smart

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I sometimes listen to the Future Thinkers podcast, and I follow @FutureThinkers_ on twitter. Here’s a tweet I really liked, and that resonates deeply with me at the moment:

“If you want to do something extraordinary, there is no map. You have to make your own map.”

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TTE 165 – Ogilvy, malaria and feng shui

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Jamie Smart

It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’ve been thinking about the skill of writing, and I came upon this quote by the advertising master, David Ogilvy (of Ogilvy and Mather fame). While his quote is directed to people in his firm, I think it applies far more broadly than that:

“The better you write, the higher you go in Ogilvy & Mather.
People who think well, write well.”

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