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The Difference Between What’s Right and What’s Right For You
There’s a big difference between what’s right and what’s right for you. This is why deliberate practice (DP) is not a cookie cutter approach, but it is highly individualised. Figuring out what’s right for...
How to Begin Using Obsidian to Become a Deep Learner
In this video, I’d walk you through 7 Tips on how to get started with using the Obsidian notetaking app. Time Stamps: Intro (00:00)Why as a Psychologist I take learning notes (00:18)5 Key Benefits...
Parameters and Samples for Capturing Weekly Therapy Learnings
Since 2013, I’ve been capturing weekly short notes on what I’ve learned as a psychotherapist. I wished I’ve started earlier in career. In one of my first few posts on Frontiers, I talked about...
Develop Good Taste
Before you can develop good abilities, you’ve got to develop good taste. If you want to develop as a musician, you’d want to develop an ear for music. You would then need to expose...
Obsession with Map Finding
We have an obsession with map finding. We think that if we search hard enough, we will correct the map that we have, and/or find the right map to rule them all. To see if this...
#9. A Hidden Discipline That Will Extend Your Mind
Welcome to Episode #9 of the Frontiers Podcast! In this episode, we have a special video version that comes with some cool visuals from the app that I was talking about. I believe one...
Looking Back at 2020
What’s essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince. This is long overdue. It’s end of April 2021, and I’m only beginning to be able to look back at...
The Holy Grail of Learning
In more ways than one, therapists are bridge makers. Except that one of the greatest challenges is the process of bridging what we’ve learned into fruitfulness for our clients. Demis Hassabis, founder of the...
Extend Your Mind Using Knowledge Centralisation
After figuring a way to create space and protect deep learning, one of the biggest barriers in the deep learning process is that most of the knowledge acquired over time are not accessible in ...
A Deep Learner Needs a Möbius Strip
When I first heard about a “möbius strip” from writer Parker Palmer, I thought it was a name for a German freeway or something. The Smithsonian magazine explains that “a Möbius strip can be...
A Deep Learner Needs Direction and Depth
School tells you what to learn. In real life, you have to figure out WHAT TO LEARN. In psychotherapy land, we are inundated with so many types of “whats and hows”, in the forms...
A Deep Learner Needs to Create Play
I believe that a good life is a deep life; it’s prerequisite is to be a deep learner. My job is to help practitioners become Deep Learners. This week, I want to take you...
Protect Deep Learning
Participants from all over the globe have just completed the first two stages of the inaugural batch of the Deep Learner web-based workshop. Instead of just a bunch of pre-recorded lectures, Deep Learner is...
Personal Learnings: Looking Back at 2019 in Order to Move Forward (Part II of II)
(Update 20 March 2020: Like other countries, Australia has now instituted a travel ban. COVID-19 has impacted so many families directly and indirectly. My thoughts and prayers go out to you). In the previous...
Personal Mistakes: Looking Back at 2019 in Order to Move Forward (Part I of II)
Two years ago, I started a project of capturing highlights on a weekly basis, previously called “A Year in Weeks”. I shared my private reflections and my personal learnings from looking back at 2018. ...
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