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How to find gratitude for what you have in any situation
As the title of this Zoom-Out says, things could be infinitely worse. You could not be here at all or…
Karl Marx’s Epitaph as a call to act as well as see
This morning was a fresh and sunny end of March day and I am privileged enough to live very close…
How to embrace change rather than resist it
One way to think about time is in relation to change. In fact, time and change are inseparable — the two are…
Zin & Zoot Evolved
Zin and Zoot are our friends from Planet Zoom. Or put another way, visual metaphors with anthropomorphic features that represent…
Right View
In Zoomology and as Zoomologists we speak of finding the most helpful perspective. Of seeking out the most helpful perspective in…
The Mysterious Case of Free Will
The Mysterious Case of Free Will Free will has endured a long run of, well, freedom. Could that time be…
A wise monk’s powerful and simple formula for happiness
Do you have a formula for happiness? Last night someone suggested one to myself and around 500 other people. The…
Einstein’s profoundly useful insight on reality versus experience
One of the things I really enjoy about exploring and researching Zoom-Out is how it crosses multiple schools of thought…
SLEEP WELL
It’s well established and well documented that one of the key wellbeing and performance boosting activities is… Sleep zzzzzzz It’s…
Happy Easter
Happy Easter from the Zoom-Out team! We hope you and your family have a wonderful break! It doesn’t look like we will…
Read Obituaries
When I was young and living at home with my parents, we had the local newspaper delivered every day. I…
Steve Jobs as Zoomologist
Steve jobs as Zoomologist… Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help…
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Attention Bubble [Tool]
UNFINISHED Life often demands that we give our attention to unpleasant things. Like smoke that contaminates the air we breathe,…
Dead Cactus
Metaphors help us to make sense of the world. Metaphors are also useful thinking and communication tools which we can…
Martian Postcard
A writer friend of mine recently gave me a sheet of A4 paper and said, “Here, read this martian poem”. …
Pale Blue Dot
The greatest selfie ever taken? From a Zoom-Out perspective, certainly. Also the greatest distance – you’d need a very long…
The Blue Marble
This image literally caused the whole world to Zoom-Out. The Blue Marble is an image of the Earth made on…
Out of Time
A Zoomologists tale… From up here, Jim could see for miles. In fact, as the cliche goes, he could exclaim,…
The Blind Men And The Elephant (poem)
This ancient parable of the blind men and an elephant is pure Zoom-Out. There have been subtle variations of the parable over…
BLAKE AS ZOOMOLOGIST
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the…
This Is Water
“This Is Water” is pure Zoom-Out. It is the title given to a commencement speech (and later a derived written publication)…
Cosmic Soup
Cosmic Soup Cosmic soup did come from a tin, A tiny, teeny, tiny tin. And before that tin, there was…
Art as Zoom-Out
Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) on art as Zoom-Out: “[Art] unsettles us awake, disrupts our deadening routines, enlarges our reservoir of…
Sandsend
Sandsend Oceans new beat oceans past. Across the seas of moments lost. Walk with me in the here and now.…
HENDRIX AS ZOOMOLOGIST
The story of life is quicker Than the wink of an eye The story of love is hello and goodbye…
Peering at the inner workings of the universe
This is a modification of the Flammarion wood engraving by an unknown artist. It is referred to as the Flammarion…
Art of the Underground
The London Underground (rail network, aka Tube) is a source of dread and daily misery. However, it’s full of beauty…