RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All of us know that intelligence is more than a symphony of ‘know-how’ and ‘know-what’ areas in the brain. As Juan Huarte, the Spanish physician, contextualised, intelligence is the ability to learn, exercise judgment, and be imaginative — a case of neural Darwinism, lyrical and evolving. For Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, intelligence […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When P B Shelley wrote, “Weave harmonies divine, yet ever new,” he would, perhaps, not have thought that success comes from strength, strength comes from harmony, and harmony requires consistency in all things, especially in a sport-centric context. Jack Nicklaus exemplified such a metaphor; also percept. When Nicklaus, the Midas man of golf, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Just think about it. What makes us ‘hit’ the floor each morning and reach out from sleep to awareness, from emptiness to existence and from dream to reality? It is energy — of our mind and body. The equation is remarkably specific. We need body energy to move in the physical sense and […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Most of us, despite our best efforts, feel out-of-sync, or balance, at times. This is, perforce, normal in the troubled times that we now live in — or, what our ancients articulated as their own essence of ‘troubled’ times. Whatever the epoch, a sense of a creeping, eerie feeling for adversity, or difficulty, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Rahul Dravid is a man of steely resolve — and, a quiet achiever. He’s to cricket what Kalidasa, or Saint Thyagaraja, is to Indian art. A classical practitioner with the humane soul and a master composer with a sequence of divine melodies, Dravid was the game’s ‘Methuselah’ in terms of sheer intensity, skill, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Daniel Goleman, PhD, the noted psychologist and best-selling author, pioneered the concept of emotional intelligence [EI]. This bid fair to his ground-breaking book, by the same name. It was followed by his yet another landmark tome, Working with Emotional Intelligence. It set out a framework of EI that reflects how an individual’s potential […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Elvis Presley was not born rich; he came from a poor Mississippi family. But, he enriched music, like no other singer — before, or after him. Presley showed a rare gift for musical talent, at a very early age. In the process, he absorbed all the styles related to a host of genres, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Sir Jack Hobbs was a purists’ purist. He brought to batting a new dimension, a rare canvas of perfection: something that is as yet unmatched. Hobbs’ art was full of profound expression, a fount of wisdom. Of subtle refinement and classical definition — a celebration of cricket syntax and grammar. Hobbs [December 16, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The mind is akin to your TV monitor flashing images and information in the background as you do your work-out. If you are observant, you will notice what it adds to your understanding of what is actually happening as you go through your exercise routine. The mind gives clues for you to not […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The expanding realm of neuroscience has spurred a luminous surge — scientists have turned their compass and radar to brain activity that represents our emotional ‘flow.’ So, what in more ways than one, did not so much engage our ancients has, thus, undergone a huge sea-change. As neurologists define emotions as a brain […]