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		<title>Lessons from my grandfathers part one</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad&#8217;s father had a little ritual when going swimming: he would go to the edge of the water and splash a little bit of water over his chest before getting in. He used to say he was getting his heart ready for the swim. I tried it and it helps a lot to minimise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=141&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Babysteps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is good to aspire to lofty ideals, but it can also be quite intimidating if you can&#8217;t imagine how to get to there from here.  Looking at people that have achieved the mastery you aspire to can be intimidating, until you realise that they too started from where you are and that there are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=129&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenge yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practising the basics lays a good groundwork for more advanced skills. Combining this with challenging yourself can help you progress even faster. Taking on more advanced practices may seem daunting and humbling as people find themselves struggling with something more difficult. The payoff of getting good at it is self-evident. Less obvious is that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=128&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of showing up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gradual small improvements tend to outlast rapid sweeping changes. Tending a plant on a daily basis is more effective than irregularly spending large amounts of time and resources on it. The total improvement is greater than the sum of the individual improvements because of the time in between each engagement, just like music is defined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=127&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with panic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of people experience paralyzing fear or panic when they are faced with high pressure situations, or what they perceive as high stress situations. The problem is that they freeze up in exactly the situation when they should be most responsive and need to react effectively and efficiently, like during exams. I find the following [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=126&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping your New Year&#8217;s resolutions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all set out to turn over a new leaf and change some bad habits for good ones at the start of a New Year. For a lot of people, making this change last proves to be all but impossible. Now I know you are one of those that can make change stick. I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=121&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beginner&#8217;s Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The map is not the territory. In any area, you are considered an expert if you have a firm grasp of the &#8220;map&#8221;, the conceptualisation, of the specific area. This knowledge truly is power and makes the expert effective and efficient most of the time. For some problems, the map, by it&#8217;s very nature, does [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=120&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vote with your wallet</title>
		<link>http://ptah23.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/vote-with-your-wallet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a consumer society. Nothing you say or do can change that. Rather than be a dirty anti-consumerist hippie, you should embrace this fact and make the world work for you. Ok, now that we&#8217;ve moved from denial to acceptance I propose that consuners should vote with their wallets if they want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=118&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robot precision II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far so good with using the robot metaphor to increase the speed of my piano playing. I have added an enhancement. When the robot makes the same mistake more than once, I basically let it loop and at the point before it makes the mistake I consciously play the right note. This is similar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=111&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yule</title>
		<link>http://ptah23.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/yule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that the Ancients put their biggest holiday at the darkest, most inhospitable time of the year gives a lot of insight into their minds. I see it as a defiant and positively optimistic affirmation of the fact that the darkest moment is just before the dawn. Their wisdom shines on in the legacy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptah23.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4347817&amp;post=101&amp;subd=ptah23&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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