On work and love
Freud revealed to us that life is work and love. These two sides of the same coin are what life is all about. But as a culture we find it much Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Psychology
The Philippines — symptoms and root cause
Instead of giving money to the Philippines (which has just been hit by possibly the biggest storm ever) why don’t we all take one less long haul flight this year, Continue Reading →
The nub
Gregory Bateson said that the cause of most of the problems in the world was because there is a difference between the way nature works and the way people think. Continue Reading →
Positive psychology
An incredibly important talk, in this video from 2004, about how to live a worthwhile life. Seligman starts by talking about how psychology is moving from a ‘disease’ model of Continue Reading →
On passing 400ppm
Quite a few memes on Facebook today have dealt with the passing of the 400ppm CO2 level in the atmosphere. It’s going to carry on heading upwards for a few Continue Reading →
Time for the frog to jump
If you place a frog in hot water it will jump out. Place it in cold water and heat it, and the frog will boil to death. If the current Continue Reading →
Net positive
A few weeks ago I blogged about the idea that sustainability requires us to do more than just minimise our impacts. It requires us to generate a net increase in Continue Reading →
Inequality in societies
Inequality (far from being ‘survival of the fittest’) is actually bad for the group as a whole. It has spread NOT because it is an inherently better system for survival, Continue Reading →
Culture is the problem, and the solution
Here is a summary of where I am in my thinking at the moment. The video below then gives one concrete example of it. 1) Fish are not aware of Continue Reading →
Only playing
When two dogs meet they will often ‘play-fight’. One may pretend to bite or growl at the other, but will do it in a way that says, “I am biting Continue Reading →