Essays on becoming by Chris Barclay
The first thing I thought about in designing the approach to this private member’s club in Chiang Mai Thailand was, I wanted people to feel lost. When you feel lost, you seek to find your way through a novel process of inquiry. There can also be an unease that causes you to question your judgment […]
Continue ReadingIn Dr. Oliver Sack’s book, The Mind’s Eye, the famous neurologist explores clinical cases of individuals afflicted with fascinating perceptual aberrations, including the inability to recognize faces. Sacks, who himself suffered from this disorder all of his life, recounts a case of apologizing to a bearded man he had bumped into when in fact it […]
Continue ReadingEver wish you could change the past? Because if you could, you change who you are now and what’s possible for you in the future. This isn’t science fiction. Who we believe ourselves to be and what we’re capable of is not about events of our past, but how we respond to those events. Every […]
Continue ReadingWhenever I have worked with organizations that talk about being “stuck”, inevitably someone will come up with the unhelpful phrase, “We have to think outside the box”. This is like saying “we have to stop thinking along the lines of what is known and think along the lines of what is unknown”. How can we […]
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