Water Crisis in the American West: The Dilemma of One
If you’ve paid attention to water issues in the western United States, you know the Colorado River is being drained dry; in fact by the...
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Mark Jaben
- Jun 18
- 5 min
The Pandemic, January 6 Hearings, Guns, Ukraine- Is Putin Saving The World?
If you have been following this blog, and thank you if you have, it should come as no great revelation that these events and so many more...
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Mark Jaben
- Apr 24
- 6 min
Opinion- End Point or Starting Place?
Here’s the hypothesis- the challenge in addressing the controversies of our day comes down to whether a person sees their opinion as the...
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Mark Jaben
- Mar 1
- 3 min
What We Hoped For Was Herd Immunity; What We Got Was Herd Mentality
I don’t know what’s going on in your community, but here it is yet another example that supports Ian MacGilchrist’s assessment that we...
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Mark Jaben
- Feb 22
- 5 min
Why do people dying from Covid refuse to believe they have it?
Why do people dying from Covid refuse to believe they have it? Why do people focus on the low percentage risk of dying, yet minimize that...
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Mark Jaben
- Jan 5
- 6 min
CONFUSING BELIEF AND FACT
You’ve heard it, no doubt. Someone proclaims the ‘truth’ because they heard it somewhere. So many people seem so willing to trust what...
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Mark Jaben
- Jun 18, 2021
- 4 min
Paralysis by Analysis, Opposite of The Inevitability Trap
How often have you had this happen? You are grappling with a difficult issue. The answer just isn’t coming clear. The more you bat it...
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Mark Jaben
- May 5, 2021
- 5 min
The Trap of Inevitability
The grand quest for our brain is to craft the certainty needed to act in a world that is anything but certain. Surely, we have great...
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Mark Jaben
- Mar 17, 2021
- 6 min
January 6th, The Texas Freeze, and Qanon- Surprised? Really?
If you have been living in a cave, you may have missed the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, or not be aware of all those choosing to...
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Mark Jaben
- Feb 6, 2021
- 5 min
‘They’ll Never Change Their Mind’- What To Do About the Amygdala, Part 2
So you are frustrated because it seems impossible to have any kind of conversation with someone who does not seem to share your views....
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Mark Jaben
- Jan 27, 2021
- 5 min
‘They’ll Never Change Their Mind’- What To Do About the Amygdala, part 1
Last post, we saw that expecting to have a fruitful conversation with someone processing primarily through their amygdala is not likely....
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Mark Jaben
- Dec 7, 2020
- 7 min
Don’t Blame Your Amygdala: Just Doing Its Job
In the last post we saw that one’s story- a narrative used to explain what’s going on and guide what to do- begins with one’s worldview:...
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Mark Jaben
- Oct 18, 2020
- 7 min
Let's Dig Deeper-The Foundation of the Story: Worldview
The mind crafts a story to guide decisions and choices, using its most immediate concerns- the sorting criteria- to focus on the...
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Mark Jaben
- Sep 16, 2020
- 6 min
The Key To The Transition- Sorting Criteria
--Please share this with someone you care about-- The key to the transition from problem thinking to dilemma thinking is the story that...
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Mark Jaben
- Aug 6, 2020
- 8 min
‘Just Get Over It’-The Problem With Problem Thinking
You may recall Mick Mulvaney, then President Trump’s Chief of Staff, telling us all to ‘just get over it,’ when he addressed quid pro quo...
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Mark Jaben
- Jul 3, 2020
- 12 min
PANDEMIC AND PROTESTS
First, please accept my apologies for ‘disappearing’ since early March. But what a whirlwind it’s been with a pandemic and now protests....
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Mark Jaben
- Mar 2, 2020
- 1 min
A Great Idea Is Not Enough For Successful Change
Hi. In lieu of a blog post this month, check out this webinar for the KaiNexus folks copy and paste, or hit the button on the home page:...
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Mark Jaben
- Jan 27, 2020
- 6 min
Where Have All The Snowflakes Gone?
People can and do change their mind. It actually does happen. You may have even seen it yourself a time or two. For your mind, however,...
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Mark Jaben
- Dec 18, 2019
- 8 min
Why Do Good People With Good Intentions Get It Wrong So Very Often?
Chernobyl, The Impeachment Hearings, and The Brain- I know you have witnessed this yourself. Good people with good intentions DO get it...
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Mark Jaben
- Oct 17, 2019
- 7 min
THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN
You may know exactly the world you live in. But consider this- the latest brain research suggests that the mind generates a narrative...
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