Insights Issue 01 · The Human Professional

Cover Story · Feature

The Problem with Dichotomous Thinking

Welcome to dichotomous thinking — the cheerful little tyrant living rent-free in your head, sorting the world into Good and Bad, Success and Failure, Friend and Foe, with the brisk certainty of a customs officer at three in the morning.

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Also in this issue

Business

Mark Bouris The Business Playbook

Adventure

Viking Horses and Lava Flows

Wellness

Nothing New Under the Sun: Bath, the Romans, and the Rediscovery of Ancient Wisdom

Mindset

The Act As If Frame – You can be anything you can pretend to be…or can you?

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Business

Mark Bouris The Business Playbook

Australia's most respected dealmaker sits down for an exclusive masterclass — the rules they never teach in business school, and why ignoring them will cost you everything.

Amiee McCahon 7 min read

Adventure

Viking Horses and Lava Flows

My daughter had been planning this day for the better part of a year. The pony bug had arrived in our household the way pony bugs tend to — quietly, then all at once — but this one came with a uniquely, gloriously specific fixation: she wanted to ride an Icelandic horse. Not just any horse. An “Icelandic” horse.

Gordon Young 10 min read

Wellness

Nothing New Under the Sun: Bath, the Romans, and the Rediscovery of Ancient Wisdom

The sign at the entrance to the Roman Baths in Bath asks visitors to refrain from touching the water.

Gordon Young 12 min read

Mindset

The Act As If Frame – You can be anything you can pretend to be…or can you?

Somewhere, right now, a wellness influencer in a white linen shirt is telling several million people that if they simply act as if they are already wealthy, confident, healthy and loved, the universe will catch up.

Gordon Young 8 min read

Health