It's remarkable really, how hard we work to stop others helping us. Why is that? Is it because the help is clearly rubbish? Is it because the help doesn't actually apply to us? Is it because the …
It’s not a question of whether you’re interested or not…
...it's a question of whether you need the knowledge. Sometimes we base our choice of what to learn about by what interests us, but actually to succeed in our goals, we need to learn about what's …
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In making plans for work…
...it is sometimes necessary to take into account the actions of other people. It was a week of Winston Churchill quotes last week, though not, in fact, this one: "In making plans for war, it is …
Personality traits: self-reinforcing?
If we decide, for whatever reason, to be interested in detail rather than the big picture, for example, or possibilities rather than procedures, and we find that that (unconscious) choice works for …
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What if we don’t like the implications?
We may dismiss certain kinds of learning... Now it could be that the learning is plain wrong. Or... It could be that we don’t like the implications. One way, we’re right; the other, we’re making a …
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Evidence – Finding your own
We generally want evidence that something works, and our first thought is it's to be found "out there." What have other people done? There are sound enough reasons for looking at things this way, and …