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“There are, it seems to me, four main pathways to the truth: science, reason, intuition and imagination.”
(Dr. Iain McGilchrist)
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Paul Craven
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Paul Craven
@CravenPartners
Public speaker on behavioural science and founding member of the Cialdini Institute. Historian, golfer and member of The Magic Circle. Ex-Schroders, PIMCO & GS.
Katılım Ocak 2014
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Two monks come to a river. A woman can’t cross.
The older monk carries her over and sets her down.
Hours later, the younger monk protests: “We’re not supposed to touch women.”
“I put her down hours ago,” the older monk says. “Why are YOU still carrying her?”
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“Complex institutions often benefit from a little randomness.
The irony is that hereditary peers are aristocratic in origin yet cognitively closer to a random slice of humanity than peers selected by political parties.”
Polemic Paine@PolemicTMM
Labour celebrates removing hereditary peers on the principle that birth should not give you a vote in Parliament. Sounds fair enough. But hereditary peers arrive through a strange historical lottery. Within a narrow social class the selection is largely random. Nobody filters them for ideological reliability or party loyalty. Party appointed peers pass through multiple gates. Patronage. donor networks. Think tanks. Political reputation. Filtered systems produce competence but also consensus. Unfiltered systems produce eccentrics but also intellectual outliers. Complex institutions often benefit from a little randomness. The irony is that hereditary peers are aristocratic in origin yet cognitively closer to a random slice of humanity than peers selected by political parties.
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“I’d like to admit my curiosity…”
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An Oxford student magazine asked me this week:
What do you wish you had known as a student that you know now?
My answer started with a conversation at a Morgan Stanley CIO event that has stayed with me ever since.
During the global financial crisis, @nfergus told me he wished more central bankers and financiers had studied history rather than economics.
He was right.
Reading economic history, including from emerging markets, has often more helpful than talking to conventional policymakers hooked on their fair-weather economic models.
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In every relationship there is one person who stacks the dishwasher like a Roman architect and one who stacks it like a raccoon on crystal meth. 🤨
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Yesterday @holland_tom was outstanding as guest editor on @BBCRadio4’s @R4Today – curious and mixed with faith and history. Odd Japanese toilet ghosts (0:44:30), beautiful 800 years of worship at @SalisburyCath (1:22:15), @BeefyBotham (1:41:40), @walkermarcus’ inspiring Thought for the Day for @SaveTheParish (1:48:25), fascinating AI chat with Kate Mosse (1:51:30), powerful re-centring of England’s birth in 927 A.D. with @MichaelWoodMV (2:19:55), and that heavenly choir finale (2:48:20) – pure goosebumps!
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St. Andrew’s Church, Deal@church34364
@holland_tom was a JOY as guest editor on @BBCr4today - learned, humane and quirky: Japanese toilet ghosts, 800 years of Salisbury Cathedral, AI hallucinations, England in 927 (not 1066) - then a reflective close with a heavenly choir. Also @WalkerMarcus. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
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@george_yarrow @Gerald_Ashley Very McGilchristian analogy, George? Left-hemisphere narrow focus on the ‘dot’ distorts the peripheral field into monsters; shift to open, direct attention and the human reality reappears. Ideological demonisation perhaps works the same way?
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@Gerald_Ashley @CravenPartners Wondering if this (mis-directed, fixated, focused attention) is how narrow ideologies function to create imaginary monsters in the mind (e.g. anti-semitism).
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Joyous!
Anna Lapwood is the official organist of the Royal Albert Hall. A few years ago she was practising in Salisbury Cathedral, and…
…better let her tell the story. ❤️
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@unfoldedbeagle I don’t disagree - as my definition of ‘by the heart’ would include intuition and imagination!
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@CravenPartners Tolstoy and Pascal would disagree. We know truth by the heart.
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
Blaise Pascal
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“There are, it seems to me, four main pathways to the truth: science, reason, intuition and imagination.”
(Dr. Iain McGilchrist)
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Final #FF of 2025 - So a Bumper Offering!
So here are the very best I can suggest, all are consistently v interesting.
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Henri Bergson argued that real time isn’t clock ticks but ‘la durée’ - a flowing, lived continuity. Einstein disagreed, insisting philosophy had no place in physics. Bergson’s reply: physics has no monopoly on reality.
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Warren Buffett in his last letter to Berkshire shareholders:
“Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it.”
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem." G K Chesterton
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“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it.”
(Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620)
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