If you give people the same facts…

If you give people the same facts…

… you might think they would come to the same conclusions. Actually, of course, maybe they won’t… They might have a different world-view, causing them to interpret the information in a different way. They might have different values, causing them to weigh...
The necessary pest

The necessary pest

How do you tell the difference between the troublemaker and the necessary pest? The thing is… We don’t have all the answers. We need other people to tell us when we’ve over-looked something, or need to take a different perspective. Of course, we tend to get this...
An intervention needs to be an intervention

An intervention needs to be an intervention

It takes a certain intensity to make something different happen. Merely exposing people to new ideas probably isn’t going to be enough if the hoped-for change is in any way an uncomfortable or unfamiliar one—the issue could be out of conscious awareness apart from...
Only the best survive

Only the best survive

There’s a reason why the classics are the classics – they’re good stuff. We tend to favour the modern – and yes, we do need progressive ideas – but for some questions, the answers were plain 2,500 years ago. And often, there’s less clutter....