Review of Jordan Peterson’s Personality Course #2: Neuroticism and Agreeableness
In this series of reviews I am dissecting Jordan Peterson’s new course: Discovering Personality. The course costs US$140 and comprises eight lectures and includes a personality assessment co-devised by Peterson himself. If you are interested in personality and what makes people tick it is worth doing. Let me again declare I am a big fan of Peterson. I think his book is excellent: I reviewed it here. His stance of telling the truth and not bowing to political correctness is outstandingly c.....
Read MoreReview of Jordan Peterson’s Personality Course #1: Extraversion
Besides catching up on some reading and spending time with the daughters’ families over the holidays I signed up and completed Jordan Peterson’s new course: Discovering Personality. The course costs US$140 and comprises eight lectures and includes a personality assessment co-devised by Peterson himself. If you are interested in personality and what makes people tick it is worth doing. I must declare I am a big fan of Peterson. I think his book is excellent: I reviewed it here. Some of.....
Read MoreReview of The Thought Leaders Practice by Matt Church, Peter Cook & Matt Stein
A great thing about the Christmas break in Australia it that it lasts more that six weeks. It starts about two weeks before Christmas and finishes on Australia Day (26 January). This allows you to attack the pile of unread books that you collect during the year. One of those books was The Thought Leaders Practice which I somehow had picked up as a free offer. I must confess my initial reaction based on the cover was that I was not going to spend much time on it. When I finished reading it, I.....
Read MoreIs Mindfulness A Panacea Or Overhyped And Potentially Problematic?
Mindfulness is everywhere these days, but is it really as beneficial as it's often made out to be? This interesting question was the subject of a recent podcast by the British Psychological Society. The presenter Ginny Smith interviews clinical psychologist Dr Catherine Wikholm (co-author of The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You?); she visits the Cambridge Buddha Centre to meet people who have taken up mindfulness meditation; and she discusses some of the latest mindfulness research tria.....
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Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
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