Scientists are using brain scan technology to hone individuals’ ability to control the direction and precision of their own thoughts.
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An information diet has to be about personal responsibility.
An information diet has to be about personal responsibility.
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I can’t really influence you most effectively if I don’t know where your mind is at now.
There are other ways of negotiating that can actually get people more of what they want in their interactions.
My vision and view of negotiation is that we are all negotiating all the time.
Every time we learn something it’s a journey. We think we understand it, then we keep going, then we get confused again.
Neuroscientists have since proven that trust is akin to a drug literally because oxytocin is released in the brain when someone feels that someone is trusting them.
As the world has gone from connected to interconnected to interdependent, I believe we’ve entered a new era.
From the perspective of a leader, somebody who wants to hold onto power, it’s the worst form of government because it puts you at the greatest risk of losing power.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
We really can’t tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves.
Think of an argument as a collaboration where the two sides are trying to find the right answer.
When you concede a point, what you’re doing is making an investment in your ability to be taken seriously and listened to by people in the future.
You can take your competitive drive and use it to make you more receptive to changing your mind if the evidence warrants it.
Whether we concede it or not, humanity longs for its cosmic significant other.