The Ultimate Superstition (#711)
It was B.F. Skinner, the father of modern behaviorism, who famously said “If we want to understand the basis of superstition in humans, the best place to start is by looking at the behavior of pigeons.”
It was B.F. Skinner, the father of modern behaviorism, who famously said “If we want to understand the basis of superstition in humans, the best place to start is by looking at the behavior of pigeons.”
One of the main questions I’ve been exploring and wrestling with over the past 20 years or so is how we create more of what we want in the world.
My two dogs, Mishka and Abby, have very different personalities. Mishka is bored unless engaged in her favorite game, which, as you might imagine for a dog, is fetch.
People often ask me to explain the difference between transformative coaching, (or as I like to call it “supercoaching”), and the traditional life coach/business coach approach to success, happiness, and well-being.
Years ago when I was fresh out of drama school in London, I was having dinner with Paul McKenna and some friends and we started joking about an idea for a TV show that we all thought would be really fun and funny.