Could You Have Been Secretly Hypnotized?
What is real? Are you sure? How can you know? What if you’re wrong? If you ever attended a philosophy class in college, these types of questions are often used to challenge students into thinking beyond the boundaries of their own self-imposed limits. Unfortunately, most of us stop asking such questions when we complete the class. In recent blog posts, we’ve reintroduced this type of exploration by delving into our natural inclination to impose meaning onto what happens to us
When Was the Last Time You Did a Reality Check?
All of us are innate storytellers. We discussed that in our last blog post (and this figures prominently into the first chapter of our book Thriving in Business and Life). The ability to create and act out stories; to convincingly cast ourselves and others in various roles, is one of our most remarkable abilities as humans. But there’s another more challenging dimension to this imaginative capability—one that is so deeply embedded that we often overlook it. Research shows tha
How Changing Your Story Could Change Your Life
In our last post we began exploring the details of our roles as the primary story generators in our own lives. Based on a continuing slew of studies we reference in our book Thriving in Business and Life, we suggested that all of us are making up stories all the time about pretty much everything. In fact, we’re actually living those stories, rather than having a purely objective experience of “facts.” The bottom line? Life and what we call "reality" is subjective . . . far mo
