Peripheral Thinking

By: Ben Johnson
  • Summary

  • A podcast to challenge your assumptions and inspire you with ideas from the periphery, the margins. We live in times of unprecedented change. The systems - financial, social, ecological, environmental - on which we depend are stretched to breaking point. Professional, personal and organisational ‘norms’ increasingly less normal. We are in transition. The ideas to shape tomorrow exist today at the margins. What might we learn from ancient wisdom, eastern philosophy or indigenous thinking? Or DeGrowth and other radical social and political movements? Peripheral Thinking is a podcast which investigates these ideas, so you can carry them back to the mainstream.
    Copyright 2024 Ben Johnson
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Episodes
  • Breathe New Life Into Your Work
    Oct 21 2024

    Growing as a person – and as a leader – often involves a metamorphosis, where one moves from an egocentric, achievement-focused mindset to a more holistic, purpose-driven approach to life and work.

    This shift can occur at various stages of life, and it takes courage to confront the discomfort and uncertainty that shows up. But ultimately it leads to a deeper connection with one's soul and life purpose.

    This journey, while challenging, can be navigated successfully with the right guidance and understanding of the process. In this discussion, Giles Hutchins outlines his relationship with this process of death and rebirth.

    Giles is a coach specialising in regenerative leadership and business inspired by nature. He works with leaders, founders, CEOs, and chairs from around the world, and has been taking leaders into nature for over 15 years as part of his coaching practice.

    Links
    • Leading by Nature, by Giles Hutchins
    • Other books by Giles
    • Movement, Mood and Mindset – Episode 34, with Sal Jefferies

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Discussing Right Story, Wrong Story, by Tyson Yunkaporta
    May 5 2024

    Embracing different perspectives and understanding the long-term impacts of our actions, particularly in terms of cultural shifts and societal evolution, can give us valuable insights to navigate our present and future more effectively.

    Author Dougald Hine rejoins Ben to discuss a new book by Tyson Yunkaporta, who suggested that the best thing to do is maybe not to read a book, but to discuss it with someone else.

    In their conversation, they explore how deep time diligence impacts cultural changes, the role of violence in human societies, and what imposing limitations can mean to those around us.

    Links
    • At Work in the Ruins – Episode 18
    • Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking, by Tyson Yunkaporta
    • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta
    • A School Called Home
    • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt
    • Further Adventures in Regrowing a Living Culture – Dougald’s spring 2024 series

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • PT Shorts: Where do ideas come from?
    Apr 21 2024

    Where do new ideas come from?

    Your mind regenerates from the outside in, teased to life by artists, innovators, agitators playing on the margins. Their work inspires yours. This is the spark, the stuff of new ideas.

    As with your mind, so too an old city.

    Berlin in 1992 was a tired place, run dry by 50 years of division, devoid of life, energy and new story.

    Until it was woken up.

    The same today in Detroit. A husked out old powerhouse finding new form, courtesy of the peripheral thinkers and players, sparking new story, seeding new ideas.

    Like an old city, your mind wakes up from the outside in, seeds of ideas taking root on the margins, the periphery, before bleeding into the mainstream of your mind.

    In this episode, we talk about Berlin and Detroit and waking you up from the outside in. It's only a little episode; short enough to consume on a dog walk or journey to work. Or even on the toilet, if you're that way inclined.

    And if you like what you hear, why not sign up to keep up at www.Peripheral-Thinking.com ?

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    14 mins

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