The Illusion Of The Rational Human Being
Graham ScottWelcome to a series of podcasts that will give you insight into different psychological processes or concepts that you can use to improve your everyday life.
Your host, Graham Scott, has spent 30 years working as an applied social and organisational psychologist and lecturing part-time in a number of university programs including the MBA and Master of Project Management in Queensland. Throughout this time, he has identified a model to highlight a systems approach that shows how the social and psychological dynamics in any group – be it a commercial organisation corporation; the world community- a country or the local golf club – anywhere where people get together – And then how these dynamics impact on the effectiveness of that group.
This is where he developed a fascination for understanding how much of our communication – decision-making and problem-solving was based on flawed processes influenced by dynamics that for the most part people are not really aware of. We all make decisions – often directed by others – intentionally or accidentally and are flawed by our own biases – emotions and ways of thinking.
And, where the premise of this podcast began. Graham proposes that the rational human being is an illusionary concept in so far as how we do make decisions – work to protect our egos – and manage our anxieties. This is not defeatist or negative – it's just a view but it doesn’t have to
be our reality.
In each fortnightly podcast, you will be introduced to a different topic such as, “power in relationships” – "why we think what we think” – “the influence of emotions on decision making” – “what is truth” - “how does personality impact on me” - “how and why we defend our ego “, and “how do we really learn” – starting with the broad notion of irrationality and rationalising.
By listening you will get clarity on how you can balance your emotions with rational thinking, and understanding with learning through stories from the road as Graham has travelled it, and get into some of the big issues such as climate change, social media, identity politics and other big current issues in modern technology.
Be sure to FOLLOW the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, subscribe to my YouTube Channel to watch each episode and and come and connect with me on Instagram, TikTok and Linkedin.
Graham welcomes comments enquiring or criticising from an objective perspective, so if you would like to reach out to him directly the best way to do so is via email: [email protected].
This podcast is brought to you by On Track Studio.
Founder: @sophie.on.track.studio.
- No. of episodes: 6
- Latest episode: 2023-12-10
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