Quantum Beliefs and Behaviours by Dr Richard Claydon.

Why do you think, act and behave in the ways you think, act and behave?

It’s extremely common today to look inwards to discover the answers to these questions.

• You might do a personality test to discover how your dispositional traits influence your behaviour
• You might do a typology test to discover the type of person you are, and what behaviours are associated with that type of person historically
• You might reflect upon your deep inner values, and use that reflection to influence your ongoing behaviour

Another way of doing this is to look outward at your identity labels. You might look at your behaviour in terms of which social groups you belong to, and determine how you should act because of your membership of such groups.

In this DD, we are going to step away from these common ways of sensemaking the self, and look at the way in which beliefs about the sociocultural world and how it might be unfolding impacts behaviour. Jung calls this the Collective Consciousness. A century earlier, Hegel outlined it in the Phenomenology of Geist. For us, it has a quantum element, in which your behaviour is being impacted by multiple different versions of the past, present and future at the same time. We’ll look at:

• Volksgeist (spirit of the people) - how your beliefs about the past impact the way you think, act and behave
• Zeitgeist (spirit of the age) - how your beliefs about the present impact the way you think, act and behave
• Weltgeist (spirit of the world) - how your beliefs about the future impact the way you think, act and behave
• Possible Weltgeists I - we’ll examine the three established interpretations of the Weltgeist, and discuss which, if any, are still reasonable propositions
• Possible Weltgeists II - we’ll examine some emergent interpretations of the Weltgeist, and discuss which of these, if any, is the most reasonable proposition going forward

Dr Richard Claydon is the co-founder of EQ Lab, and the designer of the Future of Leadership module at Macquarie Business School’s Global MBA Program (ranked #6 globally by CEO Magazine).

He was awarded the highest achievable marks for a Ph.D in behavioural science. A Harvard Top-200 Management expert and business columnists for the Guardian newspaper have described this research as “a touchstone for the future work in management and organisation”, “outstanding in daring imagination” and “at the forefront of modern discussion and debate.”

Richard is a tier one tennis player, have coached tennis professionally, and also designed the tactics creator for the multi award-winning and world-leading management simulation, Football Manager.