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What is Power? Part 4: Absolute Power

What is Power? Part 4: Absolute Power

Why is power addictive, and why do people with power often become indifferent to the needs of others? Can someone en route to absolute power be stopped?

What is Power? Part 3: Powerlessness

What is Power? Part 3: Powerlessness

Without power, we can neither cause nor resist change. Instead of being subjects in our own stories, we become means to an end in someone else's.

Man is granted to access through a barrier by presented his access card.

What is Power? Part 2: Definition

Power has a surprisingly simple definition familiar to all of us, from toddlers testing their boundaries to autocrats surrounded by “yes-men“.

What is Power? Part 1: Introduction

What is Power? Part 1: Introduction

Power plays a huge role in human dynamics. But is it a good thing we should all be striving for? Or is it a corrupting force that's best we avoid?

PACT: a 4 Step Guide to Triangulating Truth

PACT: a 4 Step Guide to Triangulating Truth

Introducing an easy-to-apply 4 step guide for figuring out truth, decreasing our risk of mistaken beliefs, and reducing our risk of making erroneous decisions.

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Triangulating Truth (part 1): Reducing Mistaken Beliefs

Something can appear to be true, until we examine it from a different perspective. How do we reduce our risk of getting it wrong and making choices we might later regret?

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Why People Prefer Certainty over Truth

Cherry-picking information that matches our beliefs keeps us and others from finding the truth. So why do we do it? Here are 3 reasons.

Differentiating Truth, Knowledge and Belief

Differentiating Truth, Knowledge and Belief

When something's too big, too vague, inaccessible, or always changing, we rely on beliefs to sketch in the knowledge we’re missing. But is it truth?

What is Truth?

Our need for truth depends on our need for certainty. How do we know what truth is? What do we mean by truth? Here's a practical approach.

Ready-Made Certainty: the Power of Belief Systems

Ready-Made Certainty: the Power of Belief Systems

Belief Systems provide pre-packaged certainty, giving us placeholders for the things we don't know or understand, enabling us to act and make choices as if they were true. They serve as powerful tools for transforming the world.

Outsourcing Our Personal Quest for Truth

Outsourcing Our Personal Quest for Truth

When things are too complex or we can't invest time and effort getting to the truth, do we outsource our quest to others, assuming they know best?

Afraid to be ourselves – Part 3: Splitting ourselves

Afraid to be ourselves – Part 3: Splitting ourselves

When our inner life can't manifest freely in the external world, it creates a mismatch. Our self splits into an Inner Self and a Manifest Self.

Afraid to be ourselves - Part 2: What it means ‘to be ourselves’

Afraid to be ourselves - Part 2: What it means ‘to be ourselves’

What does it means ‘to be ourselves’, why are we sometimes afraid to be, and how does our freedom to be ourselves get restricted?

Bubbles of Certainty and our Triple Witness to ‘Truth’ – Part 2: Us & Them

Bubbles of Certainty and our Triple Witness to ‘Truth’ – Part 2: Us & Them

When personal Bubbles of Certainty begin operating at the societal level, they can become institutionalised, excluding those who can't conform.

Bubbles of Certainty and our Triple Witness to ‘Truth’ – Part 1: You & Me

Bubbles of Certainty and our Triple Witness to ‘Truth’ – Part 1: You & Me

We all create Bubbles of Certainty around us to reduce the unpredictability of life. But they also wrongly convince us we’ve discovered the truth.

Recognising our own finitude is the key to wisdom

Recognising our own finitude is the key to wisdom

Recognising our own limitations as human beings, limited by time and space, can reveal enough ignorance for wisdom to grow.

Recalibrating wisdom for the 21st Century

Recalibrating wisdom for the 21st Century

Recalibrating the concept of wisdom to meet the demands of our information-saturated, hyper-connected world is long overdue. We need a benchmark we can aspire to, and a compass to help guide society as it faces the challenges of unprecedented and rapid change.