Michael Shermer’s Believing Brain: Anybody Who Doubts the Need for Scenario Planning Needs to Read Shermer

At the heart of scenario planning is the belief that we all fall pray to our biases and that only techniques like scenario planning can help us expand our intellectual horizons in order to see things we might ignore, hear things we might tune out, and incorporate knowledge we might otherwise find blasphemy or hypocrisy.  Michael Shermer’s new book, The Believing Brain, makes this point that scenario planners know all too well. That knowing something all too well is a dangerous way to live.

Although the Seattle-based KUOW NPR affiliate interview from June 2, 2011, has disappeared into the internet’s ether, this video from the University of Melbourne offers insight into Shermer’s thinking and positions on belief.

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