You're listening to a piece of music and it sounds so simple and easy that you say to yourself, "I can do that." But can you really? And if you can, how come you haven't yet? Taking a first person perspective of someone else's perspective can be … [Read more...]
Power and Perspectives
Not good news for our current political climate. A recent study appearing in the December 2006 issue of Psychological Science reports that people with power are often unable to take other people's perspective. Study Gives Us A New Perspective On … [Read more...]
Mandatory Space Travel To Expand The Mind
Marc Garneau thinks peace would break out everywhere if political leaders had the opportunity to orbit the earth. You go around the earth in 90 minutes and see 16 sunrises and sunsets. You can see 2000 km in front of you. You see the extremely … [Read more...]
Steve Pavlina In The Postmodern Sludge
First off, I enjoy reading Steve Pavlina's blog. For the most part, it's great stuff. But this latest post is anti-hierarchy, relativist postmodern sludge. He's concluding that all discerning thought is nothing more than social conditioning and … [Read more...]
Understanding Iraq On The Third Anniversary
As a practice of taking multiple perspectives, I thought it would be a good idea to try to understand the situation in Iraq by reading the opinions of Iraqis. This blog seems like a good place to start. … [Read more...]