Remember that fascinating creature that you can’t take your eyes off? You know that staring ends badly, but how do you get your brain to function when you’ve been utterly … [Read more...] about Dude! Do This! (Staring Part 2)
Our Internal Predator Ambushing Our Conversation
As humans, we’ve spent years (millennia really) developing language and culture, even going so far as creating very specific words to cover very specific nuances that occur in our day to day lives. … [Read more...] about Our Internal Predator Ambushing Our Conversation
Changing Patterns of Behavior for New Outcomes
I had the opportunity, many years ago, to work closely with monkeys. There were five people assigned to work with two monkeys, and of those five people, one of the monkeys … [Read more...] about Changing Patterns of Behavior for New Outcomes
Repetitive Conversations – Tired of Beating Your Head Against the Conversational Wall?
Have you ever had a conversation over… and over… and over – so many times that even though the issue never got resolved, you just don’t understand the point of beating your head … [Read more...] about Repetitive Conversations – Tired of Beating Your Head Against the Conversational Wall?
Winning Conversations
Have you noticed how often we as humans engage in conversation from a need to be right or make the other person wrong? How we don’t really listen to what the other person is saying, but instead listen … [Read more...] about Winning Conversations
