We are always on the edge of something. There’s the safe edge, and then there’s the scary edge. Like a black hole, threatening to suck us into that which we don’t understand and don’t control. I’ve found that much of the time, I’ve been aware of the difference and can choose whether to go, orContinue reading “Can’t go round it…….”
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A Different Sort of Growth?
Forest fires are a necessary natural phenomenon. Whilst they are short term destructive and frightening, they clear the way for new growth. Right now, in the midst of the inferno, we may want to remember that. It has important messages for us if we choose to recognise them. We have not been adapting to whatContinue reading “A Different Sort of Growth?”
Time to misbehave?
Behaviourism has a lot to answer for – not least because it works. When B.F. Skinner inspired the movement, I wonder if he appreciated what he would set in motion. It has always interested me the huge assumption we made that what worked on rats would work on humans, but it did. I was particularlyContinue reading “Time to misbehave?”
