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?
power 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.
power 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“.
power 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?
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.
truth 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?
certainty 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.
knowledge 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?
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.
belief 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.
certainty 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?
self 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.
self 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?
us vs them Afraid to be ourselves – Part 1: Defining the problem Our hyperconnected global social circle exceeds the capacity for humans to mentally process each other as individuals. What are the consequences?
certainty 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.
certainty 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.
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.
Wisdom 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.
