Becoming Creature #25 @Malcolm_Ocean on Self-Coercion, Systems Thinking, and The Divided Brain
Jan 29, 2022
01:47:10
In this information-packed episode Malcolm Ocean and I dissect The Divided Brain. We discuss the interplay between communication, self-coercion, and the roles of the left and right hemispheres.
Malcolm answers questions like:
* What is at the core of good conversation?
* Is pursuit of productivity fundamentally ego-driven?
* Is anxiety and self-coercion useful, and if so how?
* How do you think we can we best attend to what our experiences are telling us about how we should orient ourselves?
* Should we understand the conscious mind as fundamentally passive?
Some references mentioned in the show:
‘The Master and His Emissary’ by Iain McGilchrist
‘Thinking in Systems’ by Donella Meadows
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