Life No Longer Lives – What the Corporate World Needs to Understand to Shift to a Better Perspective.
The below video (of a lecture as Cambridge University) by eminent psychiatrist and author (The Master and His Emissary) Dr Iain McGilchrist is both a stark warning and a brilliant inspiration to shift towards a solution for all that has gone wrong with modern day life.
Iain is the world’s leading authority on brain hemispheres and their functions. His understanding goes way beyond the popular and simplistic ideas about this most people have been exposed to.
His essential message is that we have become strongly left brain dominant which historically correlates with the collapse of civilisations. Why?
The left brain creates a map of the world. It is reductionist and mechanistic. It sees things in a linear way and attempts to regulate everything with rules and regulations, logic and reduces them to machine like occurrences – in brief, it sucks the life out of everything. It has its place, but it should not rule!
In contrast, the right brain, the designated but dethroned master, sees the big picture; it perceives complex systems as a flow as opposed to static mechanisms. It is full of wonder and curiosity. It is the world of art, music and poetry and thrives on intuition, heat and connection. It is humanity in action – the aspect of ourselves where we feel truly alive.
Iain explains how we have shifted towards a society of control and bureaucracy in which anything that cannot be understood by the reductionist left brain is discarded as nonsense and unnecessary.
The consequence: Life no Longer Lives! We are reduced to a world that is becoming machine like in which we are even inviting more machines (AI) to take over our lives.
Mostly, this is the corporate perspective and way of doing things. This is why all of the endless programmes for greater employee engagement, well-being and purpose fail. Only by shifting the perspective towards the holistic view and actions of the right brain, will such programmes yield their fruit.
Ultimately, this therefore requires a transformation in leadership thinking and culture – a paradigm shift!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuQ4Hi7YdgU&t=2434s