by DavidFraser | Aug 17, 2015 | Relationship Skills, Systems
In relationships of whatever kind, there’s potential for getting in a muddle over this: By “fair,” do we mean “equal” or do we mean “in proportion?” This is a key distinction in moral psychology developed in Jonathan...
by DavidFraser | Apr 28, 2014 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
I imagine you’ve had this experience… Someone keeps repeating a behaviour that causes problems for everyone else. “Why do they keep doing that?” we ask ourselves. “Why do they not see that there are going to be consequences? Why don’t they change?” The answer of...
by DavidFraser | Apr 10, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Are your perceptions of relative cost up to date? I’m struck by how often people comment on the cost of phoning transatlantic. “That’ll be really expensive they say.” Actually, landline-to-landline, with my pretty average phone contract, it costs about £3 or $5 for an...
by DavidFraser | Mar 25, 2013 | Change, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We don’t laugh at the majority, because the majority has power. And we don’t laugh at power, because it’s dangerous. It might throw us out. But we do laugh at minorities, because minorities are weak. And we do laugh at weakness because it’s...
by DavidFraser | Mar 20, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
It’s a conditioned reaction… Anything nebulous, intangible and “irrational” we want to fit into familiar tangible, rational and logical processes, usually in the form of paperwork or information on a screen. Then we can process the result, and we can share it...