Just because you look at something doesn't mean you see it. By Decebal Leonard Marin Your wife asks you to take the packet of butter out of the fridge, and although it's right in front of you, you can't see it. You watched the news last night, but you don't remember the weather information because … [Read more...] about Inattentional blindness
Unconscious
The Easy Attribution of Complacency
Complacency is one of those favourites that Safety loves to evoke when it has no idea what has happened. It’s a projection usually given to others that has no meaning other than an attribution of smugness associated with ‘not thinking’. The truth is, the use of the word ‘complacency’ explains very … [Read more...] about The Easy Attribution of Complacency
Meditating on Dreams and the Unconscious Self
One of the primary ways we know our unconscious is through dreaming. Sometimes in a daydream or lucid dream it is even more real to us. One of the most significant researchers and geniuses that influences SPoR is C. G. Jung … [Read more...] about Meditating on Dreams and the Unconscious Self
Living the dream…
Poets and scientists alike, have advocated that dreams are the main driver of life. If you can dream it, you can live it. Dreaming is how the unconscious communicates to the conscious, and through imagination and creativity, our dreams communicate our desires, aspirations and ambitions. They bring … [Read more...] about Living the dream…
You Might Not Be Paying Attention, But Your Semiotic Unconscious Is
Even when Safety uses words like ‘innovation’ and ‘creativity’ these are located within the behaviourist/materialist/positivist framework of safety orthodoxy. There is never any discussion of semiotics or the unconscious. Even when Safety talks about ‘awareness’, ‘carefulness’, ‘consciousness’ and … [Read more...] about You Might Not Be Paying Attention, But Your Semiotic Unconscious Is
The Behaviourist Human and Human Being
The Behaviourist view of what it is to be human is A view, not THE view of human ‘being’. Indeed, if you want to understand human judgment and decision making or ‘human error’ the last place to consult is a safety behaviourist. We see the problem in a recent article by Cooper. The kind of human … [Read more...] about The Behaviourist Human and Human Being
Zero Hour Part 5 – Surfacing the Unconscious
Surfacing of the Unconscious, Psychotherapy, dreams, reality, psychiatry, Zero from the Unconscious to the Conscious, Mental Health Crisis, knowing yourself. Zero Hour - Surfacing the Unconscious #5 from Risk Diversity on Vimeo. … [Read more...] about Zero Hour Part 5 – Surfacing the Unconscious
Zero Hour Part 4 – Zero and the Unconscious
Metaphysics, Zero, the Underworld, Bosch and Dante, Linguistics, Freud’s Museum, Religious audits, Spirituality, In the spirit of Zero, ‘in the Blink of an Eye’, Apostle Paul, regrowth, reincarnation. Just your normal Safety Conversation. Zero Hour - Zero and the Unconscious #4 from Risk … [Read more...] about Zero Hour Part 4 – Zero and the Unconscious
Goal Setting and Zero
When we set goals, they are never neutral or objective and they all come with competing goals, by-products and trade-offs. This is illustrated in the SPoR Goal setting semiotic (See Figure 1. Goal Setting) Figure 1. Goal Setting The same occurs with any design, there are competing … [Read more...] about Goal Setting and Zero
How Do Workers Make Decisions?
How Do Workers Make Decisions? This is the question on the tongue of Safety but has no idea of an answer. I saw a video recently about ‘predicting behaviour in safety’. This was a slick piece of multimedia that probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars with executives speaking and sports … [Read more...] about How Do Workers Make Decisions?
