If there’s one thing we can all depend on, it’s the rational, logical human mind.

Hahahahaha.

Just kidding.

If you’re familiar with research on how the brain works, you know that the human mind, despite its magnificent capabilities, is far from a perfect, computer-like machine. In fact, it’s riddled with biases that can pull us away from reality rather than bringing us closer to it.

For example:

All of us are prone to the negativity bias, which makes situations seem more dangerous or difficult than they really are. Attentional blindness can cause us to miss something that’s right in front of us. The clustering illusion makes [...]

Lately I’ve been getting quite a few questions about AI… 

Not from skeptics, but from people like you, who may be sitting with the very big decision to join Wayfinder Coach Training. People who identify as Wayfinders and care deeply about helping others, but who may be wondering whether human coaching still has a place in the world that’s emerging.

It’s certainly a reasonable concern. The world is handing more and more of our interactions over to algorithms, chatbots, and endlessly responsive, always‑on digital assistants.

And yet, after more than twenty years of coaching and training coaches, what I’m seeing is that [...]

I promised to share with you the first and, I believe, most powerful of the Wayfinding compasses: something I call the Body Compass. 

From early childhood, you’ve been taught to override signals from your body in order to cooperate with other people: sit quietly and listen when you want to squirm, pretend you’re fine when you have a headache, get up when the alarm rings even if you’re still exhausted.

None of this is universally bad—it all helps us work together in groups—but it has one outcome that’s not only problematic, but catastrophic. It makes most people turn off the signals [...]