Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

We who spend our lives in so-called First World countries have little idea how we got that way. We grow up in the lap of relative luxury and...

I was browsing through a friend's Facebook timeline the other day, and came across her New Year's message. OK, so here we are in A...

All of us have a reluctance to see our problems as the result of our own actions. The more serious the issue, the more creative we become in...

Compromise. It's a word ripe for heated debate. A thing to be avoided? Or a necessary evil? Better to bend than break, as an old Scottis...

My father is fond of saying that the problem with human society is that we were born without an operating manual. Clever I thought. Once. ...

Mandela wrote that true freedom is not just merely casting off your own chains, but living in a way that respects and enhances the freedom o...

Norberto Keppe 's book, Liberation of the People , is the most complete book I know about the pathology of power. It explores the psycho...

Broach the subject of corruption with most people, and there's an almost instant reaction. We understandably get apoplectic about the ca...

The murky world of shadows that constitutes modern leadership is not a new thing, of course. The TV mini-series " The Tudors " lay...

This week on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head, the first in a 2-part series on leadership. And not a superficial treatment either. But...

Take a look around at the critical situations facing we human beings, and it's sobering. Maybe that's why most of us don't like ...

I remember the day it fully dawned on me that the path society was on was a dead end. I was on the train from Rhinebeck, NY to Toronto - a b...

This week on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head, we go deeply into one of the most important psychological discoveries in history. And...

We are indeed living in potentially transformative times. And I only say "potentially" because it remains to be seen if humankind ...

Our latest Thinking with Somebody Else's Head program explores a crucial question: in order for society to improve, does the individual ...

There is, as I'm sure you've noticed, a massive movement around the world of the people struggling to free themselves from the shack...

We've been bombarded with images and catch phrases heralding a new era for a number of decades now. From marketed scientific publication...

Einstein made serious mistakes in equating energy with matter and thereby giving us the scientific justification for tearing up the planet ...

This week on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head, we'll take off the rose-colored glasses to look at what we need to do to create the...

I wonder sometimes if young people today admit to naivete. It seems very uncool to be innocent these days. Kurt Cobain maybe summed it up b...