Dragan Matijevic

Artificial Stupidity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Have you ever wanted to kick yourself for doing or saying something stupid, or because your life just never seems to work out the way you hope?
The truth is, you are not alone. We are all prone to a special type of 'stupidity' that is not in our genes, not a defect or an illness to cure. It is something artificial that we acquire and therefore, something we can get rid of.
If computers are fed poor information, or their software is glitchy, they will NOT demonstrate Artificial Intelligence, but Artificial Stupidity instead; dubious conclusions, implausible modelling, recurrent crashes.
Humans are no different in this regard. Our failure to examine the assumptions, prejudices and beliefs that we choose - and have chosen for us - from the moment we are born, leads us into poor choices, harmful behaviours and unfulfilled potential. Fuelled by the mainly subconscious clashes between fear, desire and reason, it's not surprising we often end up feeling and looking pretty 'stupid'.
This concise, powerful book reveals how you can free yourself of all that baggage, by learning how to ask (and answer) certain questions.
- Why do we deceive and self-sabotage ourselves?
- What mechanism lies behind repeating the same old mistakes?
- Why do we quarrel with reality, with others, with ourselves?
- Why do we focus on trivia and ignore the essential things in life?
- What are biases and how do they make us blind?
- What is the difference between a belief, a thought and an emotion?
- What makes us poison ourselves with drugs, alcohol, opioids?
- Do you know what you really believe, not what you think you believe?

Dragan Matijevic, an NLP trainer, qualified counsellor and hypnotherapist, shines a rare light on our inner landscape. Guided by his insight, exercises and techniques, you will be equipped to investigate what is going on inside your mind, your body and your heart, and how to liberate and make the most of your natural intelligence.

Whatever you may think, you're smarter than you think you are!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dragan Matijevic
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005031138
• Artikelnr.: 70407828

Autorenporträt

Pendragan

'Pendragan' is the pen-name for children's fiction-writing duo Penny Williams and Dragan Matijevic. They also write independantly as Penny Williams and Dragan Matijevic (adult fiction, self-help and cookery books).

They launched Pendragan Publishing as an independent, international publishing platform for storytellers around the world. If you would like news about forthcoming publications, or books in the works, or if you have questions about any of the characters, please let us know.

Dragan Matijevic

Dragan started writing during the war that broke up Yugoslavia in the early '90s. Living in England with his one-year old son at the time, Dragan wondered how he could help his people in Croatia. The solution turned out to be magic! Dragan founded a theatre charity called Rise Phoenix, wrote his first puppet play for children, created his own puppets, and together with a bunch of troubadours, jesters and jugglers, drove a truck down to the war zone. In 1993, "Peppe the Magician" began to appear in refugee camps throughout Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Small puppets and theatre plays gave way to giant puppets and theatre spectacles. Children who had lost everything rediscovered the ability to laugh. Adults slowly joined in. One Croatian soldier shouted from the audience, "Croatia needs puppets, not guns!" Quentin Blake agreed and gave permission for Rise Phoenix to take his Big Friendly Giant to the war zone. Dragan went on to write and perform in many other children's plays, quite a few of which are now stories and novels. When not writing, Dragan teaches at The Artisan Bakery School, and continues to perform as the magician Sol Ray.

Penny Williams

As a child, Penny would row ashore to school from the sailing boat she grew up on with her family. This gave her a quirky view on life, encouraged by the stories she heard from blue-water sailors arriving in Falmouth Harbour. Penny grew up with a hunger for distant horizons and foreign shores. Her explorations took her to Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and even Antarctica. But her biggest adventure, which was falling in love with a Croatian magician (Dragan), happened right on her own front door step in England! So far, their story includes building their own woodfired oven for The Artisan Bakery School, moving to a crazy old cottage in Devon, taking an Invisible Man to Singapore, working with children in Sri Lanka and India and kayaking r...