Should we accept our limitations?
When we are faced with any limit it is tempting to look for something that overcomes it: when there is no cure, even snake oil becomes tempting. Sadly, the supplements to reason are just as useless.
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Being Certain
Video of debate I took part in at How The Light Gets IN 2015, with Andrew Bowie, Edwina Currie and host Richard Coles.
ReadIs balance boring?
Conviction is overrated and the value of “knowing your own mind” misunderstood. Those who harbour more doubts know their own minds well enough. But knowing the world well too, the result is rarely clear, firm opinions.
ReadThe myth of a winning personality
Before we tell people that they should cultivate a winning personality, we have to demonstrate to them that winning is more than just a distant possibility.
ReadInformation as inaction
To be truly empowered we need both to better understand the information we are given, and to realise that the biggest abuses of information concern how it is used, not how it is gathered.
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