tisonlyi

NLP, for the Jedi Mind Trick Powers.

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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--

MSD

Quantum Physics. Just to prove Feynman wrong when he said "I think it's safe to say that nobody understands quantum physics."
Here's a good summary on NLP and why it isn't the Jedi Mind Trick people try to make it out to be
http://skeptoid.com/audio/skeptoid-4155.mp3
Transcript: NLP: Neuro-linguistic Programming

tisonlyi

(I know, it was a gag.)

but really, NLP does collect together a lot of tools that can improve performance in a very narrow, prescriptive manner... so for a lot of people it will work. Like Callan Method language learning.

It's like the huge set of manuals that scientologists are weighed down with... there's actually some good stuff in there, stolen from a huge range of sources. The problems are, as ever, the narrative that holds it together, the organisation that pushes it, the manner it's pushed around, the hype and the money.

Scientology is on another planet to NLP entirely, though... (another gag, see? )

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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--

Nisses

MSD: thanks for the link.

I'd heard a little about NLP, but never really read into it.


I'd insta-learn about the human body... muscles/massages/bones/... anything that you can actually help somebody with/at without needing a big office/braces/special pills...

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girldetective

Languages
Neurology

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Willravel

Botany.

YaWhateva

I'm a science/math oriented person but lately I've been thinking what I would love to do if money was never an issue in my life...I think it would be to cook. to be a world class chef. The only problem is I can't cook well at all. I love food and I love exploring foods but it would be amazing to be able to MAKE those foods for myself and my friends/family.

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“If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.” - Bill O'Reilly

"This is my United States of Whateva!"

cellophanedeity

Father, I'm ignorant.
He would master the rules and techniques of the city, why the one way streets were chose, how the stock-market worked, what notaries did.
It wasn't a hellish Bunny Hop if you knew the true names of things. He would study leaves and bark, and visit stone quarries as his father had done.
Good-bye, world of Kleenex.
The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen

I want to know the true names of things.

levite

Three things:

Music (how to read music, and how to play guitar/mandolin/lute/etc., piano, harp, and bagpipes.)

Languages (Arabic, Greek, Persian, Syraic, Mandaic, German, French, Spanish, Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Dinee [Navajo] and Lakota [Sioux])

Martial Arts (Tai Chi, Wing Chun, White Crane wushu, Aikido, and Jiujutsu)

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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.

(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)

DaniGirl

me too!! also I would like to insta learn history since I was never really good at it.

gabrieljosh

learning japanese language...