Many of you who are parents will know the impact on our children of having good friends. Friends with shared values and a similar upbringing, can help nurture these values and provide reassurance that our children will not be introduced to things that go against these values. As adults, we don’t always take the same steps to watch out for this.
As we draw this year to a close, I can’t help but look back and feel the need to make sense of the year. We’ve had changes in the global alliances that have been in place for decades. We’ve seen the UK, planning its direction for Brexit with turmoil and uncertainty about what type of Brexit we need.
I was recently talking with a friend of mine who also works in the leadership development space, and he asked me how we had managed to get such great behaviour change results from one of our leadership development programmes.
I loved my time at Secondary School, I found Physics and Chemistry particularly fascinating. This amazing world of science would stretch my mind in ways I loved and hated all at the same time. Last week, I happened to come across my school report.
Back when I was studying for my Pharmacy degree, as part of the course, we had to undertake extra studying to achieve our course credits. The options were limited, and like sheep, we all enrolled on to a course that on the face of it, had nothing to do with Pharmacy, healthcare or anything remotely related.
I’ve been a social psychologist for over 20 years, and it has been a fascinating journey. I’ve delved deep in to the human psyche, investigated what makes us ‘us’, what drives our hopes and fears, what makes us love and hate. This journey has helped me understand our capacities for creativity, leadership, and teamwork; how to turn scientific knowledge in to practical application. For all the wonderful insights this journey has provided, for me one fundamental truth about the human mind has stood out. What really defines us, our aspirations, aptitudes and abilities, is the distance between us.
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