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There is quite a lot of debate around whether it’s possible to change your personality, or whether it is something that is pretty fixed across your lifetime. For a while now, science has been providing evidence to support the former - that your personality can change...
Illusions and realities of predicting the future. Deja vu - the feeling of having experienced something before despite knowing otherwise – is one of those strange phenomena that we all experience from time to time. But what is going on in the brain when you...
This month I’ve been speaking at a few events, and I started to reflect on the questions that myself and the other speakers were being asked. Managers, leaders, Coaches, essentially people who are responsible for working with others seem to be very keen to understand...
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. “ Albert Einstein. A recurrent theme here is Behaviour Change. Not just a focus on what determines our behaviour, but the processes...
What do you do when you want to change someone’s behaviour? You can simply ask them to change. You could put up a poster. Perhaps you can try and explain why they should change. These are the traditional approaches - an attempt to change attitudes or beliefs with the...
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink... Next week I travel to Denmark for a conference on Behaviour Change. In fact it is run by the Danish Nudge Network! What on earth is that, I hear you ask. Well, it’s a long story and it involves competing brain systems trying to control our...
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