April Medium All-Stars of The Month — Grey Swan Guild Intelligence Scan
We have been scanning the world out there for great thinkers and their content which make sense of today’s challenges and next Grey Swans. In this month’s version, we identify leading authors of behaviour, belief, bias and biomimicry.
Author: Sean Moffitt, Co-founder, Grey Swan Guild
Here is our list of thirty-two (32) brilliant thinkers, experts and agent provocateurs and their associated content for April’22:
Theme 1 — Biomimicry & Biophilic Design:
“There are three types of biomimicry — one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem’s level, like building a nature-inspired city.”- Janine Benyus
How maybe we have got it wrong — we shouldn’t be saving nature, nature should be saving us:
Biomimicry Institute / Katie Losey — What we fear most, may help keep us alive. Seven great innovations inspired by nature.
Biomimicry Innovation Lab / Richard James MacCowan, Yuning Chen and Julian Vincent— The rolling moss that gathers no stones — BBC The Green Planet & Biomimicry. Six great examples of nature’s inspiration.
Peter Forbes — Tendrils Alive. The behavioural strategies of Cobaea,
Tim McGee — Creating a Confident Future : The Value of Retrocasting from Nature. How to work your way back via nature in five year increments.
Melissa Wragge —The Allure of the Light and the Four False Constructs underpinning Business Certainty. Debunking Four Things You Thought You Were Sure of.
Chuck Lynd — The Path to an Ecological Future for Humanity (Parts 1,2,3,4). Part tour du force, part manifesto.
Michel Wolfstirn— How does nature solve complex challenges? A two-partner on what nature can teach us about social innovation.
Daniel Christian Wahl —Bionics vs. biomimicry: from control of nature to sustainable participation in nature. Putting transdisciplinary, cooperation at the center of sustainable design.
Join/watch: https://bit.ly/gsgcraftlibiomimicry
Theme 2 — Behavior & Attitude
“Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why we do sometimes the irrational things that we do? Let’s dive in below the surface.
SciForce/ Inna Ageeva — Psychology of the Connected World . How Technology is changing our Psychology.
Mission.org/Robert Greene —7 Strategies for Establishing Authority. A playbook to engage people’s willpower, and overcome their natural resistances and ambivalence.
Tyler Tervooren— Law of Equal Effort: How to Do Big Things Without Burning Out. Regardless what life throws at you, you put in the same effort.
Matt Wallaert —Applied Behavioral Science: A four-part model. Changing behavior through strategy, insights, design and impact evaluation.
Benjamin Hardy - One Behavior Separates the Successful from the Average. Don’t want to steal the articles thunder — but the word is initiate.
Kristen Berman — [Don’t] listen to your customers. They are frequently irrational, excusatory, misattributing, overconfident and discounting, and the magic 6%.
Scott Tonges — Attitude is Everything. Your mindset is entirely your choice, choose positivity.
Pew Research / Abigail Geiger — About six-in-ten Americans support marijuana legalization. Amazing how attitudes can diametrically shift over a generation — marijuana is one of them — 5x change over a generation or two.
Join us April 12th : https://bit.ly/gsgcraft19behavior
Theme 3 — Bias & Stereotyping
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” — Robertson Davies
It turns out that we are not very objective in our beliefs. It turns out that our perceptions and reasoning are heavily influenced by cognitive biases. We can dupe ourselves from the truth, and sometimes that’s useful.
Buster Benson — Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet. A full round up.
Koen Smets —The Nudger’s Paradox. Does influencing people have to be unethical?
Lakshmi Mani — Fundamental Attribution Error: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices. Our bias to judge other people differently from how we judge ourselves is convenient and often false.
Abhishek Chakraborty —25 Common Logical Fallacies That Sway You From Winning Arguments. The essential list of false arguments designed to look good.
Michael Gearon —Cognitive Biases. Most common biases explained with examples.
Devin Hughes — How Gender Roles, Implicit Bias and Stereotypes Affect Women at Work. Find a way or find an excuse.
Elizabeth Collins — Are we In Love with our Outrage? Maybe we do need to dial it back a notch.
Dylan Nugent — The Devastating Stereotype of the Artless Scientist. Why Hollywood pits intellectual prowess and social graces up against each other.
Join us April 14th : https://bit.ly/gsgcraft21bias
Having an unbiased conversation about “Bias & Sterotyping” (is it possible) on social audio Clubhouse Thursday, April 14th 1pm ET/10pm Pt/6pm GMT.
Theme 4 — Belief & Dogma
“I just think it’s better to have an idea. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier. People die for it, people kill for it.” — Rufus/Chris Rock in the movie Dogma
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”- Gordon Eadie
Is belief the enemy of intelligence? Or can one guide the other.
Ken Grotewiel — Why science holds the key to the future of our democracy. Democracy needs a great deal of diversity for it to flourish. Not religion. Not language, how about science?
Steve Hutchins —Parasitic Beliefs. The germs that control our behaviours.
Tim Aaron Gathiz— From Buddha to Peter Singer. Karma, Utilatarianism and reconciling ancient wisdom about the illusion of the self with a very modern desire for action.
Blazh Femur— Is Life an Accident? Statistical anomaly or inevitability.
Brad Stulberg— The Fascinating Science of Belief. The power of “I’m going to do this.”
Erik Rittenberry— Your Character is a Lie. Facing up to the “eternal contradictions of the real world.
Viggy Hampton — I’m a Scientist and I Believe in Ghosts. Do these two have to be at odds.
Margaret Atwood— The Battle Between Action and Belief. The queen of Canadian fiction
Pre-register of our small group mastermind April 14th — https://bit.ly/gsgcraftbelief
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