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...
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. | 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...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Aug 31, 2020 | Managing States, Martial Arts, Neuro-Semantics, NLP
I was never very tall, even as a kid. When I was in 8th grade, I had to go to a middle school for three months before beginning high school. One day I was in a music class. Being shy, I sat near the back of the room, which was like a miniature auditorium with stadium...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Jun 9, 2020 | Managing States, Modeling, Neuro-Semantics, NLP
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” ― Noel Langley, the Wizard of Oz Someone called my 90-year-old mother-in-law claiming to be her grandson. He wanted her to wire him some money. The need for senior citizens to protect themselves against scammers is a...