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Category Archives: 05: People
Guns, Germs, and Stealing Truth (2: The Boer Stronghold)
““Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana There is no simple answer to our question of “Why do we see behaviors such as experienced with Sandy Hook?” (here) This will no doubt confuse and irritate … Continue reading
Posted in 00: Bubbles, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 10: Integrity, 12: Character, 13: Values & Self, 14: Behavior, 16: Culture, Lessons from History, The Fundamental Principles
Tagged anomie, availability heuristic, behavior, Bubbles, character, confirmation bias, culture, history, human nature, incomplete information, perceived reality, polarization, practiced behavior, social media, strongholds, values
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A Tale of Two Psyches: Putin (Russia) & Zelensky (Ukraine)
“The world is not the same today as it was last week” – The Atlantic “Ambition is a lust that is never quenched but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment” – Thomas Otway This is necessarily a long post, … Continue reading
Posted in 00: Bubbles, 01: Business, A Definition, 02: Value Added, A Definition, 03: The Peter Principle, 04: Games People Play, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 07: Getting It, 08: Observing, Listening, Learning, 09: Doing, 10: Integrity, 11: Growth, 12: Character, 13: Values & Self, 14: Behavior, 15: Baggage, 16: Culture, Lessons from History
Tagged Added Value, Autocrat, behavior, character, culture, Doctrine 17, fundamental principles, human nature, incomplete information, Kyiv, learning, practiced behavior, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Zelensky
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Story (On Scripts, Life, and Politics)
“Story telling is the creative demonstration of truth. A story is the living proof of an idea, the conversion of idea to action” – Robert McKee Story (Robert McKee, meuthuen paperback, 2014; hardcover, HarperCollins, 1998) (here) is described on its … Continue reading
Posted in 04: Games People Play, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 07: Getting It, 08: Observing, Listening, Learning, 10: Integrity, 11: Growth, 12: Character, 13: Values & Self, 14: Behavior, 16: Culture, 17: Choice, Gap Theory, Lessons from History
Tagged behavior, character, gap syndrome, human nature, incomplete information, intelligences, learning, performance artists, place of little effort, practiced behavior, simple narratives, story, understanding erosiion, writing
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The Route of Our Discontent – III
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose a response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” – Victor Frankl “In our poor or lack of response lies our stagnation … Continue reading
Posted in 02: Value Added, A Definition, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 08: Observing, Listening, Learning, 11: Growth, 12: Character, 13: Values & Self, 14: Behavior, 15: Baggage, 17: Choice, Lessons from History, Uncategorized
Tagged Added Value, behavior, bias, blackbody, character, culture, dealing with people, education, free will, Gap Theory, genotypes, human nature, learning, parable, phenotypes, practiced behavior, repugnant question, Responsibility, simple narratives, strongholds, zero sum
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The Route of our Discontent
“There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists” – US National Park scientist, when asked why it was so extremely difficult to design bear-proof rubbish bins. The Question In the last post … Continue reading
Posted in 00: Bubbles, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 07: Getting It, 08: Observing, Listening, Learning, 09: Doing, 11: Growth, 12: Character, 14: Behavior, 16: Culture, 17: Choice, Lessons from History
Tagged and/and, behavior, character, culture, dealing with people, decision making, either/or, Gap Theory, human nature, incomplete information, learning, parenting, people management, Peter Principle, practiced behavior, zero sum game
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The Root of Our Politics
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” ― Jean Racine In the last post a General Behavior Pattern of Emotions->(Thinking, maybe)->Behavior emerged which appears to be broadly applicable. One of those applications seems pretty much to be … Continue reading
Posted in 00: Bubbles, 02: Value Added, A Definition, 04: Games People Play, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 07: Getting It, 09: Doing, 13: Values & Self, 14: Behavior, 16: Culture, Gap Theory, Lessons from History
Tagged Added Value, behavior, conservatism, culture, dealing with people, Gap Theory, human nature, incomplete information, liberalism, negative sum game, people management, politics, positive sum game, practiced behavior, regression to the cultural mean, responsibilities, value added, zero sum game
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The Affliction of Emotions
We have no problem in recognizing, or staking claim to the fact that we are highly evolved thinking beings (our conscious cognitive state) who also possess a strong free will (our conscious volitional state), both of which take significant time … Continue reading
Posted in 00: Bubbles, 04: Games People Play, 05: People, 08: Observing, Listening, Learning, 11: Growth, 12: Character, 13: Values & Self, 14: Behavior, 16: Culture, 17: Choice, Gap Theory
Tagged behavior, character, culture, dealing with people, emotions, Gap Theory, human nature, learning, life experience, negative sum game, parenting, people management, practiced behavior, regression to the cultural mean, survival instincts
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The Root of Our Emotions
Last time I posted (here) it was about the progression from benign conspiracy theories to fake news to hate vitriol. As much of an unfortunate start that benign conspiracy theories are, an even worse ending is when they morph into … Continue reading
Posted in 00: Bubbles, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 14: Behavior, 16: Culture, Gap Theory
Tagged behavior, character, culture, dealing with people, Gap Theory, human nature, incomplete information, life experience, people management, practiced behavior, regression to the cultural mean, survival instincts
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Success or Failure?
Why do some people succeed and others don’t? … That question has plagued people for eons. And plagued for me over the last 55 years. Too often the explanation has been an Either/Or one: some people work harder, others don’t. … Continue reading
Posted in 03: The Peter Principle, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 09: Doing, 11: Growth, 13: Values & Self, 14: Behavior, 16: Culture, 17: Choice, Career, Gap Theory
Tagged Added Value, behavior, career, culture, dealing with people, either/or, fundamental principles, Gap Theory, incomplete information, learning, marriage, motivation, parenting, people management, personality, Peter Principle, practiced behavior, repugnant question, righteous mind, skills, success, SWOT, temperament, values
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Agents of Influence
“It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it.” – Brazilian Samba instructor If there is any merit to the previous post proposing a connection between actual observed behaviors and the shapes that our Individual Behavior Curves or … Continue reading
Posted in 04: Games People Play, 05: People, 06: Incomplete Information, 10: Integrity, 11: Growth, 12: Character, 13: Values & Self, 14: Behavior, 15: Baggage, 16: Culture, 17: Choice
Tagged and/and, baggage, behavior, breast cancer, character, choice, chromosomes, decision making, DNA, games, genes, genomes, genotypes, human nature, incomplete information, integrity, learning, life experience, Nature versus Nurture, parenting, personality, phenotypes, practiced behavior, self, sleeper values, temperament, values, vicarious learning
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Road Signs and Blind Spots 