Here's what I do when I'm not in the ArchLab...
Reading
I have been doing a lot of recreational reading lately. Here is what I am currently reading:
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Volume I (The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience)
This is a great book on NLP and how it is used as a "meta-strategy", describing how people organize their experiences and knowledge towards success in any area or skillset. A lot of NLP books are simplified for ease of comprehension, but this book is very detailed and complex.
Magic
I perform magic and illusions. I have been a magician for almost 5 years; I have even taken the magician's oath. It's not quite as serious as, say, the hippocratic oath, but I still respect it.
I have a youtube page with a few effects recorded, but they're mostly older videos. I will update it soon, magician's promise.
Jonny's YoutubeNLP
For the past year I have been studying Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). NLP began as a blueprint of psychotherapy modeled after some of the world's greatest therapists. What started as a set of learnings for therapeutic uses has evolved in finding the "connection between neurological processes ('neuro'), language ('linguistic') and behavioral patterns that have been learned through experience ('programming') and that can be organized to achieve specific goals in life."
NLP can be described as many different things; I like to describe it as the synthesis of knowledge chiefly concerned with patterns of language and sensory experience that influence successful patterns of behavior.
In the future I want to study towards becoming a Master Practitioner of NLP.