About
Welcome to my blog. As there is a remote chance that you don’t know or have a vague idea of what a blog is, I’ll begin by giving you a definition:
“A ‘blog’, short for ‘web log,’ is an online diary or journal, organized in date order. Blogs are popular as a personal site — a way to share places that you have visited online, your daily life, or thoughts on a particular subject.”
Well, there is it. The characteristics of a blog are that is personal and that it reflects the thoughts of the blog writer. It has not the restrictions of an academic paper where everything must be founded. In a recent book, published in June 2006, it is calculated in 20 million the number of blogs in the Internet. I guess that adding one more will not make much harm to anybody.
I intend to expose here my ideas about self-improvement, ideas that must be taken as personal opinions and not as scientific truth. There are many things still that escape to scientific research, and there are many reasons why this is so. I will try to show those aspects in which science can shed some light on self-improvement, and derive conclusions that are only of my exclusive responsibility. As I am a scientific person, but am not trained in the social sciences (I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist), you may take those conclusions at their own value.
I will comment here about a lot of topics, ranging from facts that are known to everyone, to others that are little known. Psychotherapies and religions will be among them, but also neuropathology and evolution. The scientific method itself will be examined, as everything can be under scrutiny. The subject of self-improvement, understood as something more than getting richer, is too vast to be contained by only one discipline.
I welcome your commentaries, so let me know what you think of the subjects presented and of the project in general.