Mirror Neurons

I recently read Mirroring People The new science of how we connect with others by Marco Iacaboni
It’s got a lot of very interesting information about how our brain works. When I have more time I may write about the ideas in the book. for now I’m just presenting my notes:
As adults, our gestures can be [...]

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Posted by Ted on August 20th, 2010
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We don’t know our preferences that well and are susceptible to influences.

Dan Ariely gave a TED talk called ‘Are We In Control of our own Decisions?’
These are some notes I took, plus some of my comments.
Whatever is the default choice, or is in motion already, has a tremendous influence on what choices are made.
The form at the DMVs for in different countries ask if you’d like [...]

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Posted by Ted on July 22nd, 2010
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Motivation is another way DG is better

I heard Dan Pink’s TedTalk on ‘Motivation’ and took some notes that appear below. I also saw his very similar talk that was illustrated at RSA Animate [It's the third video clip from the top.] Pretty cool. Watch the “animated” one and check out some of the others on this same page. I have to [...]

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Posted by Ted on June 24th, 2010
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Thoughts about Freedom

I am nearing the end of editing my 45 minute introductory DG video for the first North American sociocracy conference ‘The River Flows Both Ways - A New Era of Organizational Governance’ June 14-15, 2010 at Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. At this point in my editing I am often waiting for the computer [...]

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Posted by Ted on June 2nd, 2010
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The Why, How, and What of a message

These are some notes I took from a TED lecture by Simon Sinek.
Three things are usually blamed for businesses failing: under capitalization, working with the wrong people, and/or bad market conditions. Really, not understanding your message to people is pretty big, though. People don’t buy ‘what’ you do, they buy ‘why’ you do it. Three [...]

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Posted by Ted on June 2nd, 2010
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A new book about how inequality causes huge problems!

There is a new book out that shows how much worse life is, the greater the wealth disparity.
Bill Moyers interviewed the authors and the transcript can be found here.
A book: THE SPIRIT LEVEL: WHY GREATER EQUALITY MAKES SOCIETIES STRONGER by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, who together have spent more than 50 years studying [...]

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Posted by Ted on May 24th, 2010
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Sociocrats don’t follow the rules!

In a traditional organization everybody needs to follow the rules or they won’t work. This can make it hard for people to visualize DG, which is different in this respect. If the rule doesn’t work for you, you change it to fit your needs, not the organization’s previous needs. In sociocratic enterprises, rules have to [...]

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Posted by Ted on May 20th, 2010
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TED: Morality

Some things I heard in the TED lecture called ‘Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives.’ Here are my notes:
Liberalness: openness, change,
Conservativeness: stability, status quo
We all are born with a preparedness to learn the Five Foundations Of Morality:
Harm/Care [...]

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Posted by Ted on February 17th, 2010
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The Crash Course

Chris Martenson has developed a series of video clips that explain how money works, how it is tied to energy and our environment and what to do about a future that is full of risk and uncertainty. It is called the Crash Course and deals with the extremely fast and radical changes our world is [...]

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Posted by Ted on February 13th, 2010
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Theories of Action

We all base our daily decisions on our “theories of action.” Roy Madron writes a bit about that at his blog.

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Posted by Ted on February 11th, 2010
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