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#48 2023: the year of Enantiodromia We find ourselves in a temporarily stable state of absurdity. Baroness Whitewash, the chair of the defiantly uncurious Inquiry is the perfect symbol of our time. Powerful the self-righteousness of the deluded is, as Yoda would put it. Behind the nonsense the usual predations of power continue. Those...

Hugh appeared on a podcast. Here's the link https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/the-bug-in-our-thinking
and here it is on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaIA5vQWb0g

Hugh Willbourn: the Bug in our Thinking Hugh is an author with experience in business, market research, psychotherapy, academia and performance. He has collaborated with Paul McKenna on many best-s...

Ancient Greek answers to modern problems...

#36 A Decent Democracy “In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Table Talk' 5 October 1830 (1835) How come a poet, a romantic one at that, can skewer our politicians nearly two hundred years later? Here's an answer from a philosopher, “People nowadays think that scientists ...

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#16 The Solitary Path to Love (Part 2/2) Listen to this episode from The Power House Podcast on Spotify. The Solitary Path to Love - Part 2 We are still talking about relationships! How do you know how to choose the right person? First of all we must ask, "What do we mean by 'right'? The right person to go on holiday with? The right person...

We talk about the power of stories and some top tips and core skills to make your storytelling more impactful and enjoyable...

#10 Story Telling - how to do it and how to avoid common mistakes Listen to this episode from The Power House Podcast on Spotify. In today's episode we tell a few stories, we talk about stories and we tell a story about storytelling. Hugh outlines and illustrates some basic principles to help you to tell a story well, and we look at a few of the many profound bene...

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#8 Christmas, Stories and Addictions Listen to this episode from The Power House Podcast on Spotify. In this edition we talked about addictions and the everyday challenges of life - and how they all get a little more intense around Christmas. We told some stories about the stories we tell ourselves to avoid the feelings we don't want t...

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#31 The Foolish Policeman We should all be grateful to Harry Miller. In 2019 Harry was told by the Humberside Police that some tweets he forwarded would be recorded as a ‘non-crime hate incident.’ Harry realised that 'recording a non-crime hate incident' was an infringement of his rights. It was also an over-reach of pol...

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#5 Principles, Discernment, Proportion Listen to this episode from The Power House Podcast on Spotify. In today's episode we talk about a world full of protocols and policies trying to fix the future and the impact principles, discernment and proportion can have in our society. We also take up the topic of fear and discuss how the right...

A conversation with some stories...

#3 Those who do not suffer, do not learn Listen to this episode from The Power House Podcast on Spotify. Today we followed the theme of abstract analysis through some very practical problems. We talked about careerism in science, about how hard it is for Governments to learn from their mistakes and how an excess of experts can lead us astr...