Identity – yours, mine, ours & his … 6 ways
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Have you ever walked into a meeting feeling super confident, competent, on top of the world, and ready and raring to get down to business? And have you ever walked into a meeting feeling like you don’t belong, like you don’t know what you’re doing, like you’re an imposter and someone’s going to find […]
Tags: canon, identity, perception, perspective
Learning from one of the world’s best pickpockets … yes pickpocket
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner’s shoulder […]
Tags: apollo robbins, perception, TED
Warning: reflections in this mirror may be distorted by socially constructed ideas of beauty
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Our reflections, what we take in & process from our external world, are wildly distorted. Period. End stop. After all, in the Victorian era, plucking a woman’s upper hairline, in order to give one a large forehead, was considered beautiful. Our impressions are distorted by our culture, our sense of place, our geography, our time […]
Tags: beauty, culture, perception