Thinking Method: The PMI Approach (Part 1 of 2)

Exhorting people to take a balanced view is not very effective. The exhortation wears off almost at once. Most people even claim to take a balanced view all the time. In practice they do not.So the first simple thinking tool is concerned with a broad scan. The tools have to be practical and usable....

Thinking Is A Skill

I have managed to study Edward De Bono’s Thinking Course. De Bono’s the person responsible for creating the concept of Lateral Thinking and has made enormous contributions in the field of perception and thinking. Is thinking something natural to us like walking, eating, breathing, and that it is...

Is It Really A Speckled Band?

When I first read the title of one Doyle’s story entitled, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” I thought that it was literally a headgear which was the singular cause of a person’s death, apparently it wasn’t. It was far more the result of reasoning born out of insufficiency, which became the obstacle...

Establishing Rapport: I Am On Your Side

To establish rapport is to establish a relationship of mutual trust. Rapport plays an important role when detectives question witnesses. Establishing rapport is the first step to getting people to open up to you. Certain useful methods exist for persuading or befriending someone.The simplest method...

Life is a Chess

Life, it is full of decisions to make and choices that we are to take. It’s a game of strategy and tactics, on who can make astute decisions emerges the victor. In every move, lies a path that can take you deeper into a particular circumstance; it is not how which path you want to take, but how deep...

Best Way To Get Your Password: Social Engineering

In 2003, Ebay users received an email that their account were about to be suspended unless they update their credit card information. The attacker had set up a similar looking website in order to trick the users that they were accessing the legitimate website. A number of people had their credit card...

Personality & Self-Discovery

Personality.What is Personality?  According to Wikipedia, “It is the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual.” The word pattern itself in the description, describes personality as something that may be predicted.I’ve always been fascinated...

Body Language: Mirroring

Mirroring in Psychology is the behavior in which one person copies another person while in social interaction with them. It may include miming gestures, breathing, posture, pace of speech, direction of feet pointing, expressions, and choice of words. Mirroring is often observed among couples and...