Lois Holzman |

26 Jan I don’t know why but I can tell you …

Posted at 01:36h in Overweight Brain, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 0 Comments

When some of my Japanese colleagues translated my book, The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world, they asked me to write a short introduction. This was in 2019. In the four years since then, we have done many...

26 Dec Brains and Politics

Posted at 23:04h in Culture, Events, Interviews, Overweight Brain, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

On Sunday, December 8th, I had the pleasure of speaking with 75 people from 17 states in the US. They called in to the monthly Politics for the People conversation hosted by Cathy Stewart, VP for National Development at indepependentvoting.org. It was a privilege to be Cathy's guest, to discuss...

09 Feb The Seduction of Objectifying Understanding (the cult of science)

Posted at 03:07h in Language, Overweight Brain, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 5 Comments

I’ve been getting lovely feedback from readers since the publication of my book, The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world. You might remember it from this site, where I published chapters as I wrote them and invited reader...

19 Dec Stop Worrying About What You Don’t Know

Posted at 03:00h in Creativity, Human Development, Overweight Brain, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 1 Comment

Here's me on The Overweight Brain ...

02 Nov The Creative Way to Share What You Think You Know

Posted at 01:25h in Culture, Human Development, Overweight Brain, Philosophy 0 Comments

I've traveled to several cities recently, speaking with students and faculty at different universities and introducing performance and improv to them through workshops. It 's always provocative and eye-opening to challenge the knowing paradigm at a university (for obvious reasons). Inviting professional knowers and knowers-to-be to perform philosophy as a new...