April 2013

Alfred Korzybski on belief and skepticism

“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” – Alfred Korzybski Polish-American philosopher and scientist, creator of the theory of ‘General Semantics’, big influence on NLP, and author of Science and Sanity Image of Alfred Korzybski from Wikipedia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share

How to deepen your connections to the people you love and admire

Here’s a way to feel better, and make the people you admire or love feel a *whole* lot better, that is really easy to do – in fact it may take less effort than not doing it. Where the idea came from Recently one of my favourite writers, Iain Banks, revealed that he had been

The Leadership Emotional Intelligence of Margaret Thatcher

Mrs Thatcher inspired affection and loyalty from her own supporters like no other British leader since Churchill. This article examines why. Whatever you thought of her policies, there are leadership lessons we can learn. As I disagreed with nearly all her policies when she was in power, my younger self would be amazed to find

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