Why We Can't See What's Right in Front of Us

People tend to fixate on the common
use of an object. For example, the people on the Titanic

overlooked the possibility that the iceberg
could have been their lifeboat.

Newspapers from the time estimated the size of the iceberg
to be between 50-100 feet high and 200-400 feet long.

The Titanic was navigable for awhile
and could have pulled aside the iceberg.

Many people could have climbed aboard it to find
flat places to stay out of the water

for the four hours before help arrived.
Fixated on the fact that icebergs sink ships,

people overlooked the size and shape of the iceberg
(plus the fact that it would not sink).



From Why We Can't See What's Right in Front of Us, Tony McCaffrey, Harvard Business Review, 10 May 2012. Submitted by Emma Rae Lierley.

Analysis

All I can do is
tell the truth. No that isn't
so – I have missed it.

There is no truth that
in passing through awareness
does not lie.

But one runs after it all the same.



Spotted in the preface to The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan. Submitted by Marika Rose.

Orwell's Bane

An exploration of body psychotherapy
in the coaching context; The role

of Perceptual Positions in discovering

new options; An understanding of the Problem

Pyramid and accessing a client’s secondary

gain; Accessing conscious and unconscious

material through specific and vague questioning

techniques; Working with memories;

A deep awareness of human communication

and coaching using psychometrics

What is included in Toward Consulting's 'Purposeful Coach' programme, according to the email I received 22 April 2010. Submitted by Gabriel Smy.