It's what makes us human, many say. Distinct from other forms of life. I think therefore I am. I want, therefore I have reason to want. It drives how we see ourselves and our relationship to reality in the most profound way. So deep, we don't even think about it. Of course we're free to
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Category: Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head
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Some see our most important issues as social ones. Hunger. Injustice. The gap between rich and poor. Others see the lack of ethics in leadership as most pressing. While for many, our environmental crises supercede everything else. Here in Brazil, we acknowledge it all as evidence of our inversion. And then ... we go a
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It's labeled as the secret to everything. No matter your difficulties, the Secret offers solutions. Don't have the house of your dreams? Despair no more. Your dream home is only a decision away. It's sweeping the world in an Internet generation version of Tulip Mania, but it's far from the answer it promises. Today on
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A woman is terrified of going to the supermarket. A man loses sleep over being evaluated at his job. A jazz singer is terrorized by her pending success. It can be crippling and terrifying. And it´s the third largest mental health care problem in the world. What is going on behind our fears and anxieties?
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Up to 10 million teens develop disorders in this area. And worries about it can start much younger than that. Adults are worried about it, too. And companies make big profits on our neuroses. We've become a culture obsessed with it to a degree unprecedented in history. But solutions to it remain elusive. Today on
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It's been the dominant force in the world for the past 70 years or so. It's impact has been enormous in every area - from economics to culture. But it's not the country it once was. And now, it's even become dangerous to itself ... and to the rest of us. Where have things gone
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In 1992, at an old chateau a few kilometres outside Paris, a small group gathered to form yet another organization trying to stop our destruction of the world. There was only one difference: this group wanted to highlight the root cause of the problems. That Association is still going strong, and its core purpose has
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It was Jung who stated that everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Herman Hesse suggested that in disliking another, we dislike something in him that we have, too. This is an aspect of human psychological life that's still kind of murky. We're going to clarify it significantly
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Normally, when we look at social or individual problems, we see the source of them outside. Too much stress, too much work, it's my genes or my upbringing. We're not so inclined to take a good look inside us for answers. This is a big mistake, which I'd like to take some steps towards correcting
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Is it a product of your genes? Or your environment? Is it chemical, or something taught? Is yours just a point on a perfect bell curve determined by standardized testing? Or is there much more - and new - yet to be said about it? I vote for the latter. Today on Thinking with Somebody
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