WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL BI POLAR?
The Sydney Institute, run by Ann & Gerald Henderson, is a Sydney icon. Nearly every week they have a 30-minute talk followed by a 30-minute Q&A on some topic. Speakers range from authors to politicians. The sessions start at 6pm and finish at 7pm on the dot. You can attend the talk in person or hear the talk on YouTube and generally on Sky News. I am proud to have been a long-standing member which at $99/year is one of the best value for money entertainment packages availab.....
Read MoreThe Power of Introverts
I was prompted to watch this video of Susan Cain speaking at TED 2012 about the power of introverts because Tali Sharot talked about it in her first book, The Influential Mind. that I reviewed in my previous blog. Tali was also speaking at TED 2012, this time about her second book, The Optimism Bias. I have not worked how the passage then got into her first book but never mind. What I did discover was a short clip 3-minute clip of Tali summarising her first book https://youtu.be/DOzFR.....
Read MoreReview of The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Tali Sharot is the author of The Optimism Bias and professor of cognitive neuroscience with degrees in economics and psychology. She is the founder and director of the Affective Brain Lab at University College London. She has been published in Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Psychological Science, and many other journals. She has been featured in numerous outlets and has written for The New York Times, Time magazine, The Washington Post, CNN, and the BBC, among others. Before becomin.....
Read MoreA Journey into Paranoia helps to validate the 7MTF.
Recently I came across an interesting book review of Paranoia: A Journey into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety by Daniel Freeman. The author is a professorial fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, a consultant clinical psychologist, a recipient of the British Psychological Society Presidents’ Award for distinguished contributions to psychological knowledge, the author of almost a dozen books and hundreds of journal articles, and a co-founder of the Feeling Safe Programme, a cognitive-behavio.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
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