Truth, performance and the shaman's ship

I am reading something today that totally blows my mind. It is about a concept called Radical Honesty. Remember that old Jim Carey movie called Liar,liar! That is all about. Never lie. In any given situation, do not lie. Always say the truth. It is somehow similar with the yoga principle of Satya. Which is probably better, because added one more rule: always say the truth, but never for the purpose to hurt another being. You have the full link here. Enjoy your reading!

Tim Ferris just finished a book that i want to buy, as i was following his podcasts for some time. It is called Tools Of Titans, and he is doing here what he knows best, deconstructing performance in any given area. I am thinking Christmas gift for myself. I can see it on my shelf near Tony Robbins' book "Money-master the game". You have a sneak peak here, for the first chapter. Enjoy this too!

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." said John Lennon. Even more than that, our brain is usually filling the holes in our reality, showing us a picture different from reality, but according with our own beliefs. Think about that! If something is not in our definitions, we will not see it. We will see instead something else that is familiar to us. They say that the first time when Columbus went to America, the local people couldn't see the big ships, because they could not admit that something similar exists. They could only see the small boats. But the shaman, more observant than average Joe, could see the ripples in the ocean waves, and somehow they understood that something big is there. Next moment, the Spanish galleons appeared in front of them. They explained all that to their tribes, and everyone could see the ships after that. It is something good here, because that means that we can understand the unfamiliarity of the unknown, as soon as someone else will explain it to us. The bad part is that we need to find that person already possessing this knowledge. This paragraph is partially inspired by the movie "What the bleep do we know?".

Vision

I remember a funny thing. A big telescope where people used to look at the stars. One famous astrophysician explain to one old lady that this device help them to demonstrate how the Universe is born.
The lady, unimpressed, told him:
-My husband can do that with a pen and a piece of paper.

(It was the ex-wife of Albert Einstein)