Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘perspectives’

“I Can Do That” Syndrome

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? Read on…

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 The Powerful
To study the link between power and perspective taking, Galinsky and colleagues used a unique [...]

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 thin atmosphere. Your perception changes physically and mentally.
We live in a [...]

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 fear-based attachments. Take a look at his simplistic syllogisms.
Death of a loved one = tragedy. Death of a [...]

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.