I think when young we have the need to be protected – we are dependent on care takers and authority figures to act as filters for us. As adults protection is often necessary when we are making big changes. This is in some tension with our need for autonomy and indpendence. This need of protection [...]
My guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog was prompted by the book The Black Swan. Because the future is uncertain it makes sense to spread risk – but this goes against being efficient. Especially in our relationships I think it makes sense for us to be inefficient. The post is called [...]
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There was an article in the New York Times about ‘good’ parents raising children who were just ‘bad seeds’. I found this quite objectionable (to put it politely). Which caused me to right about Parenting and Children as a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. Parenting is an awfully fraught topic [...]
On the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog I have a guest post on honour. Despite its old-world feel I think that examining honour can be relevant to our current social predicament(s). This is because honour is a social code, and our world’s big problems are about collective problems. We need to sort out how [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called Mirror Games: Confusion When We Influence Our Environment. It is about that difficult time in relationships when we aren’t sure who is influencing who and who is responsible for what, and it is awfully difficult to know what to [...]
I have a couple of friends who always seem to be processing the same issue at the same time. It may be intimacy or friendship or establishing an income. The issues have been quite varied. This happens even if they haven’t been in touch much in the time in between. They are around the same, [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called Changing Ourselves and Changing Others. This is a very big topic to take on all at once. I look at the way that we influence each other and how demanding that others change is likely to produce the opposite. [...]
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When we set out to study old age, we are to some extent studying recent history. We are studying the way the currently old behaved in their youth and middle age. And this can be 20, 50 or even 70 or more years ago, if we are looking at the very old. Things have changed [...]
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Personal Development for Smart People: the conscious pursuit of personal growth by Steve Pavlina I like Steve Pavlina I like Steve Pavlina – I like his adrenalin-junkie style. I like how he pushes the boundaries and is always trying stuff (like sleeping twenty minutes every four hours instead in one block as usual). I like [...]
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Some Australians (those as old as me), will be able to remember ‘Kingswood Country’ – a sitcom that ran for a few seasons and was quite popular. It was about a family – the father was called Ted. Ted was a fairly crass and insensitive character. When Ted had a difficulty with something he often [...]
