Our understanding how human beings think and behave is one of the most important tools we have available to make our world and our lives better. Yet, we are failing to use this knowledge. A couple of decades ago, psychology was released into the real world in a discipline that has become known as ‘Behavioural
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We are a number of episodes into ‘Humans & Hope’, my podcast series about human beings and the challenges and expectations we face. This feels like a good time to reflect upon some of the key themes that have been appearing regularly in the episodes so far. A central issue issue is that human thinking
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Exciting news today as I’d like to invite you to a live online recording of a new episode of my ‘Humans & Hope’ podcast. It’s on Monday 8th November at 3pm GMT, and is about how we can seek social change more effectively – from standing up to discrimination through to building more successful campaigns.
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We need to understand human beings better. In fact, I believe that understanding how human beings think and behave is the first thing we should do when trying to address any human issue – whether personal or global. Over the last century, psychologists, neuroscientists and other researchers have made some remarkable discoveries about how we
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I’m delighted to say that my new book ‘Life – and how to think about it’ is out today. It provides a guide to navigating life in a thoughtful and well-informed way. More details here. You can buy it here and at all other good bookshops. I love looking at the big picture – of
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Following the shocking (but predictable) events of right wing mobs storming the US Capitol, the phrase ‘Britain Trump’ is trending on social media – referring to Boris Johnson and the desire to get him out of office next. Regular readers will know I’m not a fan of the Prime Minister, his political views or his
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Here’s a new idea rather than a new, fully formed initiative – putting it out there to see if people would find it interesting. There are hundreds of places and sites around the world that have an amazing story to tell – from the Trinity site in the Nevada desert where the first atomic bomb
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We are in much less control of our lives than we think we are. In reality, the key to living a happy and successful life is often simply to be able to react well to the events that happen to you (from taking opportunities to accepting disappointments) rather then vainly attempting to control everything that
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My conversation in episode 8 of my podcast ‘Making the world better’ – out now – is with Dr Tilly Collins. Tilly is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, London. She runs research projects in a range of environmental areas, but in this episode we talk about her work
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My guest in the latest episode is Mike Buckley. Mike is a political campaigner who has been seeking social and political change for many years, most recently as head of the ‘Labour for a public vote’ campaign. I got to know Mike after my social change consultancy Praxis had prepared a report in 2019 to
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