Paul Craven
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Public speaker on behavioural science and founding member of the Cialdini Institute. Historian, golfer and member of The Magic Circle. Ex-Schroders, PIMCO & GS.
Joined January 2014
The basis of my logo! See https://t.co/dTqlPmxAHG The Jastrow illusion will blow your mind https://t.co/2MlMFnfTcY…
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World renowned behavioural science speaker, Paul Craven gives fascinating and insightful talks around investment, sales and business
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This video is one of the best on the internet and always deserves to be posted. She was such a genius.
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When the tagline is “when travel feels like time travel” and the time travel in question is to the past and not the future and the experience is nevertheless better in every way than the present you need to start asking some difficult questions
The train that turns your trip into a time machine — the 1930s-style British Pullman Express, England.
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The floating heart illusion. Scroll up. This is just an image and not a video. Any movements you sense while this scrolls, is constructed by the brain.
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At Canterbury Cathedral lies Cardinal John Morton (1420–1500) - a master of human psychology. To raise funds, he used ‘Morton’s Fork’: Dress plainly? You must have savings. Dress richly? You can afford more. Either way, you gave. #Framing #Influence
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Visited @CburyCathedral today - still radiant, still awe-inspiring, despite the graffiti exhibits. The Dean wished to provoke questions. He has: I overheard visitors asking why pollute a cathedral, unless to drive away worshippers and donors? Surely common sense to take graffiti
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“Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.” (Sir Roger Scruton)
Who's up for overpainting the graffiti in the South Bank Skate Park with Fra Angelicos to buld "bridges between cultures", as the Dean of Canterbury says?
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“I regard books in my library in much the same way that a sea captain regards the charts in his chart-room. It is manifestly impossible for a sea captain to carry in his head the memory of all the reefs, rocks, shoals, harbors, points, lighthouses, beacons, and buoys of all the
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Chesterton’s Fence “We dismantle what we have never understood, and so cannot recreate.” (@dr_mcgilchrist) In life, leadership and legacy, not every fence needs tearing down. The wisest change begins with understanding. Be careful what you destroy.
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“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.” (Henri Poincaré)
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Chinese superstition moment. I too would not like to have death in my PIN.
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2/2 The night before was a cowboy-themed fancy dress party. From hats to heuristics to humanity, this was persuasion with a smile. Favourite quotation in my talk: “Trust is built in teaspoons and lost in buckets.”
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1/2 Honoured to close #Dialogkonferansen with my keynote on ‘The Science of Ethical Persuasion’, based on @RobertCialdini’s 7 principles…in front of an 🐘 https://t.co/roAY5IsRvm
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“The big winners pay for thousands of failed experiments.” @JeffBezos
Jeff Bezos and a junior software engineer came up with the idea of Amazon Prime.
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Bragg is the last of the Reithians i.e public service ethos, intellectually serious, committed to making complex cultural subjects available to a broad audience. This stands in contrast to what TV has become in the modern-era: wall-to-wall quiz shows, soaps and reality TV.
Having presented well over 1,000 episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg has made the decision to step down from In Our Time following the series which aired earlier this year Read more ➡️ https://t.co/vEKXGAbLR5
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