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How to talk about race when you are white

When George Floyd was killed by a policeman kneeling on his neck, what does a book about talking, written by a white man, have to say?

Tim Harkness

Jun 12, 20207 min read

A South African beach near to where I grew up has a warning system to alert bathers of visiting Great White sharks. A few years ago an...

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Sep 30, 201811 min read

The focus of most performance psychology is performing well under pressure. The challenge, as described by the Yerkes-Dodson Law in 1908,...

TimH

Jun 13, 20186 min read

In Catch 22, Joseph Heller wrote this about child abuse: “Yossarian marveled that children could suffer such barbaric sacrifice without...

TimH

Dec 4, 20175 min read

A applied sports psychology article Psykinetics: The New Science of the Golf Swing Psy-kin-etics (n) the interaction of mental states and...

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Nov 23, 201711 min read

Rule 3 says 'Remember most people are good, competent, and worthy of respect'. But what does this actually mean? I'll start by describing...

TimH

Nov 18, 20179 min read

I had been planning to blog on Owen Jones' description yesterday of the "bigots and xenophobes in the unhinged tabloid press" when I woke...

TimH

Nov 15, 20173 min read

Agree what you are talking for Accept that agreement takes skill and effort Remember that most people are good, competent, and worthy of...

TimH

Nov 15, 20171 min read

Too often we go into a conversation with a set of objectives not completely unrelated to those of Conan the Barbarian. Starting the...

TimH

Nov 14, 20171 min read

If the word of the year for 2016 was ‘post-truth’, and the word of 2017 was ‘fake news’, what does that mean for communication? Because...

TimH

Nov 14, 20171 min read

Rule 7 is that statements must use rigor. Rule 7a is that statements must have precision, accuracy and evidence. Rule 7b is that in order...

TimH

Nov 14, 20172 min read