by Brian Blem | Apr 28, 2024 | Development
Faith is believing or placing confidence in something, whether within us or beyond us. It involves trusting in the inherent goodness or efficacy of something. As humans, we all live by faith. Faith is largely determined by culture, in other words, the experience of...
by Brian Blem | Mar 1, 2024 | Development, Uncategorised
Siegmun Freud, the Austrian Neurologist (1856 -1939), defined the human psyche in terms of the Id, the Ego, and the Super-Ego. The Id is our natural yearning, the Super-Ego is social norms and values, and the Ego is our conscious ability to satisfy the desires of the...
by Brian Blem | Jan 6, 2024 | Development
The biggest challenge humans face is our mind’s self-limiting constructs, developed in the first third of life. Science has revealed the human brain only fully integrates at the age of 25, making us passive sponges of the prevailing cultural norms and values. Whether...
by Brian Blem | Nov 4, 2023 | Development
I used to love playing a code-breaking game called ‘Mastermind’. I later studied psychology with the hope of cracking my own code, to better understand myself and live my best life. What I have come to realize is that most of us are slaves, slaves to our...
by Brian Blem | Jun 16, 2023 | Development
I would suggest that the hardware of humans is incredible, but our software lets us down. Our hardware is the hardwired parts of us that form our nature, and which we all have in common. Starting with our physical bodies – skin, muscles, organs, limbs, skeleton,...
by Brian Blem | May 18, 2023 | Development
With the Comrades Marathon only a few weeks away, I can only imagine that most of the entrants would have been out on the road this past weekend for one of their last long runs. Having run three Comrades back in the 1990’s, I know the amount of training that is...
