Hamid Azizi

According to Yuri Bezmenov the former KGB  agent an expert in the field of subversion and mind control, there are 4 major steps to engage in brainwashing on a mass level.  Although the original intended target for KGB was nations and government at a macro level, at a micro level the same is true for individuals. Before I dive in details of the devil, we must realize that brainwashing in small and big scale without the consent of the subject is immoral and unethical. Why should you care about brainwashing? As an individual you are subjected to mind control every day, knowing about this topic will help you the subtlety within which it occurs, it will help you protect your best interest and negotiate, stay focus when this powerful tool is unleashed on you. Why do I write about Brain Washing?   As a professional who has credentials from an accredited and reputable institution in behavior modification as a scientific discipline, I have studied the coaching industry f...

Success is not one thing it is many things to many people. Human life has several stages, success at each age has a different association to it. For example for a year and a few months old baby it is being able to roll on her back and be able to crawl, later on walking is considered success and talking and soon each milestone that is reached in life is considered as a success. In the world of professional development it is different for each field, in sports it is ultimate performance relative to the team the athlete is competing against,  in economics it might be coming up with an equation to solve certain major world crisis, such as hunger, famine and other economic issues, in the scientific realm reducing  the target CO2 consumption level and saving environment may be considered a  success. In the world of business ascertaining certain degree of business fluidity and boosting profits and market share is considered success. In medical field  any number of breakth...

25 Major Life Lessons as My Coaching Practice. 1. Three levels of mastery. We move through three levels of mastery: intellectual, emotional, and physical. We might understand something intellectually, but not have any emotional reaction to it or be able to actually do it. When we do know something at the emotional level, we have an emotional response. This is a simple, but powerful model for thinking about stages of mastery, and it actually parallels Bloom’s Taxonomy. 2. Four classes of experience. Four types of experience as a frame for thinking about what kinds of experience to do more of, and what to do less of: Good for you, good for other people; good for you, sorry for other people, bad for you, good for other people, and sorry for you, bad for other people. 3. 6 basic human needs. We go through cycles of needs, and some seem at odds. Our 6 human needs are  certainty, uncertainty, significance, connection, growth, contribution. We need assurance until we are sure...

Part of the mantra of a secular and democratic society is to live in harmony with other community members, be it minorities or majorities.  Another tenet of a free democratic society is to allow for the co-existence of opposing ideas within the context of a legal framework of a fair law, with justice for all.  Many great qualities and amazing achievements are attributable to this forum and platform of state-building and governance. Religious conservatism also prides itself on the structural-functionalism that it has brought to the world and has shaped the value system of billions of people throughout human history for "good or for bad."  Whether we are religious or secular is not the point of discussion here. The point of discussion is the idealism of the co-existence of opposing views of the world under one secular system. Does such a system have the moral and ethical authenticity to be trusted for fair treatment of all?  It is a bit ironic to ask the relig...

In a traditional sense, a free market is one where a capable willing and well-informed buyer will pay a reasonable comparable price for a product and or services under normal conditions without pressure or duress. The only force that determines the price is supply and demand. What impacts the amount and requirements are the external factors.  What others forces impact the housing market and how mixed is the whole economy and what economic indicators are to watch for when looking at the housing market?  For long it was considered that the real estate market was local, is it still true? In this blog we will test some of the narrative and the dynamic interplay of these forces and if the traditional definition of the market still fits the bill in the era of globalization?  Further, does a free market really exists? We start off by the market indicators that shape both sides of the supply and demand equation. Real Unemployment Rate  vs. Reported Unemployment Rate: ...

Attention, concentration, focus, flow… These are words associated with mental states that assist in doing work. If we can focus our attention, we might be able to concentrate long enough to reach flow state, and actually get some work done. In this stimulation-rich world, focusing attention and finding flow is more easily discussed than done, but the scientific understanding of attentional processes can simplify the challenge. Our senses are constantly inundated with information: the light streaming in the windows, the sight of people passing by on the street, the smells of a cafe, the sounds of conversations and dogs barking over the din of city traffic, the light scrape of oxford cloth around your neck, the pressure of the hardwood table on your elbows. Each time you notice something in your environment, you are paying attention to it. The ability to focus your attention on something while ignoring competing stimuli is called selective attention by psychologists, and we would neve...

What do Life and Movies Have in common? They both have characters, stories, conflicts, resolutions, climaxes, scripts, lines, genre, theme, settings, cameras, actions, light sound and many many hours of input and dedication of professionals who care and make, maintain and project the movie on the big screen and we all get a feeling of wow that was a fantastic movie. After everything is said and done what makes a movie of  150 or so minutes memorable apart from the work of the editor and mixers the graphic designers and many other professionals is a magnificent story. The challenge in life is that we are the director, the writer, the narrator, the trendsetter, the organizer, the camera and sound personal, the light holder, the graphic designer and recorder the digital mixer and the editor, etc. etc....all in one. While we give a lot of credit and awards to the characters in a movie and shower them with praise recognition, rewards, esteem, and status, we rarely get to cele...