by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | May 11, 2022 | Health, Managing States, Neuro-Semantics
On January 13, 2022 at 7:30 am, I underwent cardiac bypass surgery. Dr. Fayyaz Hashmi replaced four arteries, two feeding blood into my heart and two out of it. For a 75-year-old, I was active, with a resting heart rate of 55 beats per second. Yet, a slight pressure...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Nov 28, 2021 | Language, Modeling, Negotiating
Has anyone enjoyed the experience of negotiating with a car dealer? Or enjoyed any form of negotiation at all? What if you wanted to become an effective negotiator, adept at using the appropriate negotiating language? Where do you start? I took a first step by...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | May 23, 2021 | Creativity, Writing
How do you get ideas to fuel your creativity for innovation or problem-solving? I will describe one of my methods. Many of the ideas for this article came during the short period between sleeping and waking. To me it is a twilight zone. It happens for about 10 to 20...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Feb 7, 2021 | Modeling, Neuro-Semantics, Writing
I am searching for “principles” to use when explaining how to model. I want to distill them from my experience modeling with many disciplines. Some principles, I suspect, are out of my conscious awareness. My actions reflect my principles. How do I uncover these...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Nov 23, 2020 | Creativity, Innovation, Modeling, Neuro-Semantics
You overhear Sam, a man in his mid-forties, say to a much younger man: “Only the young can be creative.” Einstein said something similar: Anything truly novel is invented only during one’s youth. Later one becomes more experienced, more famous – and more...
Pascal is a master modeler, who has modeled physical phenomena, satellite motion, and the behavior of people, organizations, and corporations.
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