1. Your description of the inability to listen is what I have seen all my life. It contributes the fragmenting of organizational structures as a left brain obsession with finance and management cancel out genuine leadership.
2. I have been right brain dominant all my life. It made school difficult. Especially multiple choice tests where I could imagine how every answer could be the correct one. It also meant that I had to work harder to fit in socially. I did so listening and observing. From that practice, I saw patterns of behavior that explained why things were as they are. As a result, where I began to read McGilchrist, while the science was new, his description of right brain dominant life was ver familiar.
Your collection of posts are excellent together. Worthy of revising and publishing as a pamphlet.
Like thieves bumping into each other in the night, if I don't say much ... it is because I have so much to digest. Thanks to you.
Bummed out by the fall-out between Sage Hana and Mathew Crawford because I like both. I guess I'll have to start upping my game and sharpen a focus on my own languishing substack.
Just wanted to let you know that the information from you and Toby Rogers is a big influence on me ... and wanted to wish you a belated Merry Christmas, but NOT a happy. new year. š. Why not? ''To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.'' ā Gustave Flaubert.
I love this: "A very interesting thing I learned through my studies of the Nervous System is that folks in states of chronic stress or chronic fear may lose the ability to listen or hear what other people are saying. Not just losing the art of listening, but also that stress literally results in physiological and neurological changes which prevent the brain from being able to hear and process words and speech!"
I think of a friend who so often cannot hear some things.
And of all the people who have been (and often still are) unable to hear due to the induced perma-fear state.
Those against us - not dumb, to instill this perma-fear in order, as you note (like just about everyone) we "find it so hard to get that message across in a culture where so very many folks have succumbed to the politics of fear."
This is one reason why, in my new program, AWAKE in a World Gone "Woke," step one is de-stressing exercises to lower our own level of fear. And I would in fact go on to say that, before engaging in discussion, it might be amazingly powerful to have a joint de-stress time.
By the way, I'd like to send my program to you, for your response. Let me know if you'd like that.
Well put together! Thank you, Gary. You have pulled together several desperate areas of knowledge and research for me in such a way as to confirm my 'intuition...' It is one thing to 'feel' certain about a situation, it is much better to 'feel' and 'know.' Thank you again for the hard work and insights!
The information you share here is SO CONSISTENT with my experiences w friends family and colleagues who have been living in chronic states of fear for three years now. *sigh* really fascinating and pretty discouraging. But even tho not great news, itās always better to understand exactly what youāre dealing with. I live in such a blue bubble most of the time it has required a deliberately cultivated network of new friends who see through the government and corporate deception.
Two things to say.
1. Your description of the inability to listen is what I have seen all my life. It contributes the fragmenting of organizational structures as a left brain obsession with finance and management cancel out genuine leadership.
2. I have been right brain dominant all my life. It made school difficult. Especially multiple choice tests where I could imagine how every answer could be the correct one. It also meant that I had to work harder to fit in socially. I did so listening and observing. From that practice, I saw patterns of behavior that explained why things were as they are. As a result, where I began to read McGilchrist, while the science was new, his description of right brain dominant life was ver familiar.
Your collection of posts are excellent together. Worthy of revising and publishing as a pamphlet.
Hi Gary!
Like thieves bumping into each other in the night, if I don't say much ... it is because I have so much to digest. Thanks to you.
Bummed out by the fall-out between Sage Hana and Mathew Crawford because I like both. I guess I'll have to start upping my game and sharpen a focus on my own languishing substack.
Just wanted to let you know that the information from you and Toby Rogers is a big influence on me ... and wanted to wish you a belated Merry Christmas, but NOT a happy. new year. š. Why not? ''To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.'' ā Gustave Flaubert.
Cheers Gary!
steve
I love this: "A very interesting thing I learned through my studies of the Nervous System is that folks in states of chronic stress or chronic fear may lose the ability to listen or hear what other people are saying. Not just losing the art of listening, but also that stress literally results in physiological and neurological changes which prevent the brain from being able to hear and process words and speech!"
I think of a friend who so often cannot hear some things.
And of all the people who have been (and often still are) unable to hear due to the induced perma-fear state.
Those against us - not dumb, to instill this perma-fear in order, as you note (like just about everyone) we "find it so hard to get that message across in a culture where so very many folks have succumbed to the politics of fear."
This is one reason why, in my new program, AWAKE in a World Gone "Woke," step one is de-stressing exercises to lower our own level of fear. And I would in fact go on to say that, before engaging in discussion, it might be amazingly powerful to have a joint de-stress time.
By the way, I'd like to send my program to you, for your response. Let me know if you'd like that.
Excellent post Gary!!
I learned several things I never knew.
I'll keep this knowledge in my tool bag.
Thanks.
Very interesting! Reminds me of this brilliant rsa animation https://youtu.be/dFs9WO2B8uI
Well put together! Thank you, Gary. You have pulled together several desperate areas of knowledge and research for me in such a way as to confirm my 'intuition...' It is one thing to 'feel' certain about a situation, it is much better to 'feel' and 'know.' Thank you again for the hard work and insights!
Very interesting studies and findings.
The information you share here is SO CONSISTENT with my experiences w friends family and colleagues who have been living in chronic states of fear for three years now. *sigh* really fascinating and pretty discouraging. But even tho not great news, itās always better to understand exactly what youāre dealing with. I live in such a blue bubble most of the time it has required a deliberately cultivated network of new friends who see through the government and corporate deception.