Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Pre-viz
Have you ever done a visualization exercise? I've discovered an unexpected side of it tonight.
Years ago, a friend told me to visualize things I wanted to achieve. Picturing the different fazes of getting there and of course the completed achievement. Doing this seriously could guarantee the success of anything I would endeavor.
She would practice visualizing her future systematically and indeed, I saw her achieving things that blew my mind, changing her career path, moving abroad, working on her relationship etc.
I admired her for it, as of course I couldn't even get the first picture in focus. My mind would go all over the place and redesign the world instead.
Tonight, at an entrepreneurial networking event, there was a small workshop on visualizing your business project. The coach took us on a path, through a curtain, over a bridge and then off some stairs. I make it sound cheesy but actually, I was in to it and enjoyed my trip.
- In my mind, visualization was about visuals, pictures. Like taking a photograph... -
Somewhere down the stairs, she made us walk into our project sometime in the future when we will have reached success. "have a good look around and check out all the details you can see".
I step off the stairs, into that space and start looking for a desk, a computer, a pot plant... There was a large empty room. A very large room but no furniture or such stuff.
Suddenly I realized there was something else there that I wasn't expecting but that was far more essential to the space, to me. I opened my mind a bit further and I noticed the room was spacious, it was very luminous and there was an energy, a vibe.
So, there you go. My subconscious mind tells me it is totally OK to define my expectations purely subjectively. In the end, that's what it all comes down to. If the so-called vibes are good, ones material needs are much more limited.
On this happy thought, I bid you sweet dreams!
Brucelle
Years ago, a friend told me to visualize things I wanted to achieve. Picturing the different fazes of getting there and of course the completed achievement. Doing this seriously could guarantee the success of anything I would endeavor.
She would practice visualizing her future systematically and indeed, I saw her achieving things that blew my mind, changing her career path, moving abroad, working on her relationship etc.
I admired her for it, as of course I couldn't even get the first picture in focus. My mind would go all over the place and redesign the world instead.
Tonight, at an entrepreneurial networking event, there was a small workshop on visualizing your business project. The coach took us on a path, through a curtain, over a bridge and then off some stairs. I make it sound cheesy but actually, I was in to it and enjoyed my trip.
- In my mind, visualization was about visuals, pictures. Like taking a photograph... -
Somewhere down the stairs, she made us walk into our project sometime in the future when we will have reached success. "have a good look around and check out all the details you can see".
I step off the stairs, into that space and start looking for a desk, a computer, a pot plant... There was a large empty room. A very large room but no furniture or such stuff.
Suddenly I realized there was something else there that I wasn't expecting but that was far more essential to the space, to me. I opened my mind a bit further and I noticed the room was spacious, it was very luminous and there was an energy, a vibe.
So, there you go. My subconscious mind tells me it is totally OK to define my expectations purely subjectively. In the end, that's what it all comes down to. If the so-called vibes are good, ones material needs are much more limited.
On this happy thought, I bid you sweet dreams!
Brucelle
Monday, February 25, 2008
Today, I did some research on the net to understand the results of an IQ-test I took a long time ago. My point was to understand how the doctor came to the conclusion that I have an operational dyscalulia. Maybe it would help me to make progress in the way I deal with it.
These WAIS-III (see wikipedia for basics) test results mention a V-IQ and a P-IQ and there is an important different between both on my sheet. The numbers stuff were all under V-IQ, where I scored lower. ??
Here are some of the sites I read:
- http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=22
- www.radford.edu/~bhiltons/IQ%20Test%20InterpretationWAIS.ppt
- Wikipedia of course
What I found out was that the report was unclear because it showed my results in this grouping (VIQ-PIQ). It was impossible to deduce anything this way.
When I grouped my results under the four categories VCI, WMI, POI & PSI, 
the interpretation jumped out: the problem was all under WMI (Working memory Index).
"Working Memory Index:
Number ability and sequential processing. Responding to oral stimuli that involve the handling of numbers and/or letters in a step-by-step, sequential fashion and require a good, nondistractible attention span for success"
My scores were lower on Digit Span and much lower on Arithmetic: A poor short-term memory makes it hard for me to do arithmetics, calculus and remember procedures easily.
In practice, I've learned that simply using pen & paper or a calculator or an Exel worksheet is all I need to be operational with numbers. Where things can go wrong is when the subject of the discussion is numbers. Unless I get enough time to visualise, to give the numbers a framework, they quickly end being a part of my reality. Or worse, I misunderstand their value (Million? Billion? Zillion? whatever!).
A funny one is when I tell a whole story about something and after a while I'm asked if I don't mean the opposite. It turns out I've been using the opposite term all the time (i.e. dyslexia instead of dyscalculia)
Now, what I have is only a light form of dyscalculia. It's no fun but it's manageable. I can learn to get around it.
Learning disabilities can also have advantages. Some people mention a sort of "gift" they have. I think - not sure- that mine make me better at grasping the big picture, visualising, seeing patterns.
Check out the links I mention or Google for more. Brains are interesting subjects
Brucelle
These WAIS-III (see wikipedia for basics) test results mention a V-IQ and a P-IQ and there is an important different between both on my sheet. The numbers stuff were all under V-IQ, where I scored lower. ??
Here are some of the sites I read:
- http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=22
- www.radford.edu/~bhiltons/
- Wikipedia of course
When I grouped my results under the four categories VCI, WMI, POI & PSI, "Working Memory Index:
Number ability and sequential processing. Responding to oral stimuli that involve the handling of numbers and/or letters in a step-by-step, sequential fashion and require a good, nondistractible attention span for success"
My scores were lower on Digit Span and much lower on Arithmetic: A poor short-term memory makes it hard for me to do arithmetics, calculus and remember procedures easily.
In practice, I've learned that simply using pen & paper or a calculator or an Exel worksheet is all I need to be operational with numbers. Where things can go wrong is when the subject of the discussion is numbers. Unless I get enough time to visualise, to give the numbers a framework, they quickly end being a part of my reality. Or worse, I misunderstand their value (Million? Billion? Zillion? whatever!).
A funny one is when I tell a whole story about something and after a while I'm asked if I don't mean the opposite. It turns out I've been using the opposite term all the time (i.e. dyslexia instead of dyscalculia)
Now, what I have is only a light form of dyscalculia. It's no fun but it's manageable. I can learn to get around it.
Learning disabilities can also have advantages. Some people mention a sort of "gift" they have. I think - not sure- that mine make me better at grasping the big picture, visualising, seeing patterns.
Check out the links I mention or Google for more. Brains are interesting subjects
Brucelle
Music
Poulenc. I don't know much about the guy but every time we meet, he makes me sweat. I suffer big time.
I'm talking about his compositions by the way. I think he's been dead for a while.
He's written some gorgeous music for polyphonies but every time, his love for dissonances got in the way.
We were rehearsing his Ave verum corpus tonight and I tripped on the same bar I always have. Previously, I sang it with a group of some 15 female voices. In other words, there was always my neighbor to pick me up when I lost my note. This time it's just a soprano, a mezzo and me, down in the basement (I'm a counter-alt). When I'm wrong, I'm all on my own, bringing the whole thing down...
Poulenc is tough but once you get used to the chord he put together, it sounds so obvious its frustrating. You see, I'm trying to tell myself I just have to sit down and play the chords to myself until I have it set in that head of mine.
Modern music isn't always pleasant but I've experienced it quite a few times that it looked like a torture at first read and after a while, when everyone's got their notes, it is incredible.
The Ave verum corpus has bits of harmonious melodies linked together by very strange chords - about four of them - and I keep struggling with the last one.
By the way, singing can be better than sex...
Have you ever tried singing in an old church? The good ones can have wonderful acoustics that makes you voice sound so much better. The best ones can blow you away at your first sound, give you the impression that you can sculpt their space with your voice, mold the sound of your music in the air around you.
Better than sex I tell you!
Brucelle
I'm talking about his compositions by the way. I think he's been dead for a while.
He's written some gorgeous music for polyphonies but every time, his love for dissonances got in the way.
We were rehearsing his Ave verum corpus tonight and I tripped on the same bar I always have. Previously, I sang it with a group of some 15 female voices. In other words, there was always my neighbor to pick me up when I lost my note. This time it's just a soprano, a mezzo and me, down in the basement (I'm a counter-alt). When I'm wrong, I'm all on my own, bringing the whole thing down...
Poulenc is tough but once you get used to the chord he put together, it sounds so obvious its frustrating. You see, I'm trying to tell myself I just have to sit down and play the chords to myself until I have it set in that head of mine.
Modern music isn't always pleasant but I've experienced it quite a few times that it looked like a torture at first read and after a while, when everyone's got their notes, it is incredible.
The Ave verum corpus has bits of harmonious melodies linked together by very strange chords - about four of them - and I keep struggling with the last one.
By the way, singing can be better than sex...
Have you ever tried singing in an old church? The good ones can have wonderful acoustics that makes you voice sound so much better. The best ones can blow you away at your first sound, give you the impression that you can sculpt their space with your voice, mold the sound of your music in the air around you.
Better than sex I tell you!
Brucelle
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