I’ve given quite a few talks and spoken with a lot of people since the publication of my book ‘Humanise: how knowing ourselves can change the world’ late in 2024. It’s been well received, and the audiences I’ve spoken to about it have found its vision of a humanised world very attractive. As result, the
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I’m delighted to say that my new book ‘Humanise: how knowing ourselves could change the world‘ is, at last, published today! Humanise is a popular psychology book that reveals the latest understanding about how human beings think and behave, and shows how we could use this knowledge to tackle some of our biggest challenges (including
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I’m very excited to announce that my fourth book ‘Humanise: How knowing ourselves could change the world’ will be out on Friday 25th October 2024. A summary of the book is here, but the core aim of the book has been to provide an accessible yet reasonably accurate picture of how human beings think and
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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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