Author and Marketer Tom Beakbane on "How to Understand Everything, Consilience: A New Way to Look at the World"

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast for episode #144 with Tom Beakbane<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>, author and president of <em>Beakbane: Brand Strategies & Communications Inc.</em>, who has helped generate over $5 billion in brand value for his clients, and discover a new way to see the world.</p> <p><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okJniUOO1nA'>Watch the interview on YouTube here.</a></p> <p>Visit past episodes here <a href='https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/'>https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/</a></p> <p>On this episode, we will take a mind-altering journey into his book How to Understand Everything: Consilience: A New Way to See the World<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a></p> <p>There is a new way to understand human beings — and everything else.</p> <p>It’s known as <em>consilience</em>.</p> <p>Consilience is a new paradigm that reveals how things self-organize from the bottom up – in contrast to how we think and communicate, which is from the top down. </p> <p>This new paradigm exposes the realities of human nature on both personal and collective levels revealing the overlap between different domains of life: family, health, business, technology, politics, and spirituality.</p> <p>Consilience will help you see things differently – and make people less puzzling.</p> <p>I'm Andrea Samadi, author and educator from Toronto, Canada, now living in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies in our schools, sports, and the workplace with strategies that we can all use, understand and implement, for improved results.</p> <p>When I first came across Tom Beakbane, his work caught my attention, as it was right in line with episode #143 with Dr. Jon Lieff on The Secret Language of Cells. Tom wrote some feedback on my Linkedin post about this interview, and let me know that his work was right in line with Dr. Lieff’s. When I started reading his book, How t