This book is about the history of human feelings, habits, emotions and perceptions across time.
It is an amazing book. To get a feeling for its vast scope, here is a list of the chapters:
How humans have repeatedly lost hope, and how new encounters, and a new pair of spectacles, revive them
How men and women have slowly learned to have interesting conversations
How people searching for their roots are only beginning to look far and deep enough
How some people have acquired an immunity to loneliness
How new forms of love have been invented
Why there has been more progress in cooking than in sex
How the desire that men feel for women, and for other men, has altered through the centuries
How respect has become more desirable than power
How those who want neither to give orders nor to receive them can become intermediaries
How people have freed themselves from fear by finding new fears
How curiosity has become the key to freedom
Why it has become increasingly difficult to destroy one's enemies
How the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed, but not the art of knowing where to escape to
Why compassion has flowered even in stony ground
Why toleration has never been enough
Why even the privileged are often somewhat gloomy about life, even when they can have anything the consumer society offers, and even after sexual liberation
How travellers are becoming the largest nation in the world, and how they have learned not to see only what they are looking for
Why friendship between men and women has become so fragile
How even astrologers resist their destiny
Why people have not been able to find the time to lead several lives
Why fathers and their children are changing their minds about what they want from each other
Why the crisis in the family is only one stage in the evolution of generosity
How people choose a way of life, and how it does not wholly satisfy them
How humans become hospitable to each other
What becomes possible when soul-mates meet
What is Knowledge Management? - Andrew Sinclair-Thomson
Mini-clip interview for Gurteen Knowledge with Andrew Sinclair-Thomson. What is Knowledge Management? Shot at the Henley Knowledge Management Forum in September 2006.
[Socrates] introduced the idea that individuals could not be intelligent on their own, that they needed someone else to stimulate them. ... His brilliant idea was that if two unsure individuals were put together, they could achieve what they could not do separately: they could discover the truth, their own truth, for themselves.
If you are interested in Knowledge Management, the
Knowledge Café
or the role of conversation in organizational life then you my be interested in this online book I am writing on
Conversational Leadership
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