An intriguing experiment may show cultural difference in how people see the world—either as discrete & differentiated objects or as interconnected substances. Told that a simple shape & material item (like a cork cone) was an imaginary name (dax), Americans & Japanese were asked to choose either same shape/different material or same material/different shape as
Most of us recognize that time is treated differently in different cultures. This usually comes up when someone from another culture is late for a meeting & makes a joke about being on “local” time. But there are deeper consequences of the truth that people experience time differently depending on their cultural background. Many Asian
Studies in western societies show people have an inflated view of self. Whether it’s drivers, students, or college professors, most rate their own abilities as higher than others, & westerners evaluate themselves as unique in ways they aren’t. This overconfidence bias, however, appears to weaken as it crosses the East-West divide. An experiment may suggest
Have you ever been in a foreign country & discovered that people just don’t think like you do? Researcher Richard Nisbett has found specific differences in the way Asians & Westerners see the world. In one experiment, Chinese & American eye movements were tracked as they viewed pictures with a central object against a complex
Cosmic events are always good reminders of our humble place in the vastness of space. In August 2017 a total eclipse swept over the United States, dubbed “The Great American Eclipse.” It’s an amazing coincidence of timing that the moon is the just the right size to produce this phenomenon—the moon’s body is the perfect
มองไปที่ท้องฟ้า เพื่อเตือนตัวเองเรื่องจักรวาล จงค้นหา“ความกว้างใหญ่” ของทุกโอกาส แทนการเห็นแค่เพียง ความเล็ก ของตัวเอง — แมทท์ เฮก, นักเขียนชาวอังกฤษ
Paradigms are the way we see the world–and we don’t see the world as it is, but as we are. Through the centuries of human history, advances have been made by breaking paradigms to see things in a new way. What things inside of us are holding us back from a new vision and positive
กระบวนทัศน์เป็นวิธีที่เรามองโลก และเราไม่เห็นโลกในแบบที่โลกเป็น แต่อย่างที่เราเป็น ตลอดหลายศตวรรษในประวัติศาสตร์ของมนุษย์ ความก้าวหน้าเกิดขึ้นได้จากการทำลายกระบวนทัศน์เพื่อให้เห็นสิ่งต่างๆในรูปแบบใหม่ @ Soft Power Skills Academy, we challenge you to see the world in new ways. You’ll work with small teams of fellow high-performers & a professional coach to study & apply leadership & soft power skill lessons to deliver goal-related projects that put principles into practice. We do this face-to-face,
For 100 years, Sears ran a platform economy via its Sears catalogue. People spread across vast remote regions could get information about goods & order them for delivery, greatly reducing transaction costs. Sears wasn’t selling stoves, cattle feed, or clothing so much as it was providing information & connecting people. It shut down its famous
Disruptive innovation. Creative destruction. These are popular buzzwords that we might apply to a rapidly changing world economy. China’s relative & absolute rise in wealth has been astounding over the last 40 years. Their presence in the Asian & world market is certainly disruptive to the old order. This change is happening in the context
