Safety is the Wrong Anchor We are all shaped by starting points, what Jung called Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (SDICs). SDIC is sometimes known as the 'butterfly effect'. This is the idea central to Chaos Theory that a simple starting point can lead to wickedity. Foundational to SDIC … [Read more...] about Safety is the Wrong Anchor
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Anchoring Safety to Objects
Anchoring Safety to Objects Anchoring refers to a human bias that ‘holds’ to a view or position based upon how it was introduced and ‘sunk-cost’ associated with commitment to that position. Anchoring acts as a ‘fast and efficient’ heuristic that short cuts any need for challenge, questioning and … [Read more...] about Anchoring Safety to Objects
People Skills Are Not Soft Skills
People Skills Are Not Soft Skills When you know language matters you don’t to repeat the common discourse that ‘frames’ the Discourse that hides undisclosed assumptions and ideological agenda. I read an AIHS piece about a a so called ‘safety thought leader’ who referred to the skills of Listening, … [Read more...] about People Skills Are Not Soft Skills
The Strange Challenge of Unlearning in Safety
The research shows that people are most gullible when: 1. What is presented to them is the first they have heard it 2. The source seems authoritative 3. The ideas seem logical, simple, binary and orderly and, 4. Ideas match popular discourse. It is not likely that people are going to fall for a … [Read more...] about The Strange Challenge of Unlearning in Safety
Anchoring, Framing and Priming Risk
Anchoring, Framing and Priming Risk One of the foundations of communicating to the unconscious through semiotics is understanding how words, language, signs, symbols and discourse ‘prime’, ‘frame’ and ‘anchor’ at an unconscious level. Every communication operates at a number of levels and it is … [Read more...] about Anchoring, Framing and Priming Risk
