“Attention is a moral act.” by Geoff Marlow.

The main theme in the 30+ year body of work of former psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr Iain McGilchrist’s is hemispheric specialisation.

Not just in human brains, even the most basic life forms with a neural network demonstrate lateral specialisation.

But this is not the old mistaken idea of “logic and rationality” being in the left hemisphere and “emotion and intuition” in the right.

The difference is not in ways of thinking about the world, but in ways of being in the world. When we attend in ways that foster depth, empathy, and understanding we contribute to a more human and humane world.

Attention is therefore not just a mental function but an ethical choice that reflects and shapes our character traits and the type of world we create.

Geoff Marlow https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreymarlow/

Geoff began his professional career as a digital systems engineer with British Aerospace and the BBC, before moving to the open innovation lab Cambridge Consultants, where he ran the Digital Systems Group.

When a client of the lab asked: "Could you come and make our people behave more like your people?" it launched the career path Geoff’s been on ever since – helping clients create future-fit organisational cultures of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness.

He worked with Peter Senge and Arie de Geus on the Board of the Society for Organisational Learning (SoL) and with former UK Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen on the Board of the Daedalus Trust – addressing negative personality changes associated with the exercise of power – aka “Hubris Syndrome”.

He publishes regularly on the Create a Future-Fit Culture Substack channel: https://geoffmarlow.substack.com/