Category: Self-Knowledge

The Shudder

The prob­lem with self-knowl­­edge is that it’s not an absolute thing. In effect, those who say they know them­selves are kid­ding them­selves. And those who say they don’t know them­selves are also lying.  I like the way John Wenger over at Quan­tum Shift­ing says it. In a recent post, John tells the sto­ry of a client… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Shud­der

When Will I Be Seen?

For many years I’ve been inter­est­ed in “con­di­tion­ing,” the process by which a per­son adopts beliefs, val­ues, and pat­terns of thought. Con­di­tion­ing rep­re­sents auto­mat­ic and uncon­scious learn­ing that enables a child to fit with his or her fam­i­ly and com­mu­ni­ty.  Con­di­tion­ing has its down­sides. We pick up views of oth­ers and espe­cial­ly of our­selves that… Con­tin­ue read­ing When Will I Be Seen?

The Ears of the Wolf

Many years ago, when I was work­ing in an HR func­tion, two con­sul­tants were hired to help with exec­u­tive selec­tion process­es. Their sophis­ti­cat­ed tem­pera­ment test­ing instru­ment was used in com­bi­na­tion with oth­er stan­dard tools, such as inter­views, resumes, work sam­ples, ref­er­ences, and so on. The con­sul­tants’ infor­ma­tion seemed to be par­tic­u­lar­ly com­pelling and they soon… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Ears of the Wolf