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Recovering from a Crisis of the Heart

Recovering from a Crisis of the Heart

by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Aug 19, 2022 | Health, Managing States, Martial Arts, Neuro-Semantics

On January 13, 2022, I underwent coronary artery bypass surgery. Afterward, I was groggy with three long draining-tubes below my rib cage. My chest hurt since the surgeon had to break bones to get to my heart. I needed to hug a heart-shaped pillow to protect my chest...
Surviving a Crisis of the Heart

Surviving a Crisis of the Heart

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...
NEGOTIATING LANGUAGE AND COMPROMISE

NEGOTIATING LANGUAGE AND COMPROMISE

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...
Twilight Thinking for Creativity

Twilight Thinking for Creativity

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...
A Principled Way to Share Expertise

A Principled Way to Share Expertise

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...
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Recent Posts

  • Recovering from a Crisis of the Heart August 19, 2022
  • Surviving a Crisis of the Heart May 11, 2022
  • NEGOTIATING LANGUAGE AND COMPROMISE November 28, 2021
  • Twilight Thinking for Creativity May 23, 2021
  • A Principled Way to Share Expertise February 7, 2021

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