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 In this episode of Gone Workabout, practical philosopher Paul Baker shares some of the highlights of his life to date, spanning Ceramics at Eton, to attempting to teach Richard Branson to fly, to the Alexander technique and beyond.Paul has a matter of factness about him that is both refreshing and charming. As his story unfolds, it becomes clear that it is all heading in one direction - a better understanding of people and how to support both individuals and groups to live life more lightly.About the show:Gone Workabout is a show where host Oliver Happy talks to people who move about the things that matter most. Each conversation starts with childhood origins, and evolves organically as we explore wide-ranging topics.About my guest:Paul Baker is a practical philosopher who started life as an awarded Ceramicist, who then opened the UK's first hang gliding school and later to explore hypnotism and therapy on his lifelong journey to help people live more lightly. Paul is a therapist, coach and trainer. He lives in the South East of England.Email: Contact Paul BakerShow mentions:Life as a bit of an outsider and that feeling of never really quite fitting in, then realising I didn't really want toEton as a high school that has is very old, and has originated a large number of british prime ministers03:00 Eton as a high school leading to Sandhurst as a military academy for officers04:00 Eton hierarchy by age group and pupil / servants vs the Christian ideals underpinning the education.Dyslexia as a barrier to higher education and university.08:15 Hang gliding as a business venture and obviously the most sensible thing you could doStalling a glider as a means to surviving an almost 1000 ft drop on the first flight09:45 The high school of hang gliding as a business venture10:30 Learning to be an instructor being based on information in digestible chunks11:20 Hang gliding as a way to empower people.12:30 the best air is near the cliff and needs you to run off a cliff as fast as you canWhat feels dangerous can actually be really safe and what feels safe can be very dangerousYou can feel safe but it doesn't mean you necessarily are. And while heading to the edge of the cliff you can actually be very safe and on the right pathHow do our feelings and our thinking relate to the world around us?16:00 hang gliding moving to towing, moving to microlightsDesign principles as a source for designing hang gliding harnesses18:20 the emergence of powered hang glidersMy brother helped invent bungee jumping and the second bungy jump ever being off the golden gate bridge in san franciscoEnding up on the evening news as being in a light aeroplane (microlights) leading to an influx in people wanting to learnThe fundamentals of teaching people to fly light aeroplanes - understanding the risks and learning how to control themTeaching the marquis of Bath to fly (he wasn't a great pupil)Teaching Mike Oldfield and Richard Branson to flyRichard Branson as someone who was completely able to follow instructions, yet who is brilliant at creating businessesGoing bust after 10 years of flight schools and taking a moment to look at what I'd learned26:30 going green and doing something natural with gardening as a way to learn from mistakesGardening as fighting nature and leading to an interest in Permaculture (Permanent agriculture)Permaculture as a methodology that looks at mimicing nature in a way that leads to growing things that are useful to usRelated episode: From little things big things growRecognising that you can't separate agriculture from people looking after land31:00 Realising that everything is not linear, but is actually systemic.31:30, 34:00 The Alexander technique - a study of thinking in relation to movementFrederick Matthias Alexander as a young Australian actor over 100 years ago, who was losing his voice, who came up with this method to study his movements when talking when reciting as a way to healBook - Frederick Alexander: Man's supreme inheritanceBook - Frederick Alexander: The use of the selfInhibition - the concept of receiving an experience and not doing anything immediately as a responseWhich is more important? to solve the problem or to not create the circumstances that caused the problem?Let's tackle problems by identifying the cause and not causing the problem in the first place.37:00 mediation and conflict resolution advice - if someone says something that upsets you, only react if you think there is an advantage in doing so.Learning about people and how about how we can not get in each other's way40:45 NLP Neuro Linguistic ProgrammingVirginia Satir family therapistNLP growing out of an inability of great practitioners to teach others what they did. Based on an idea of people not knowing what they are doing. Leading to a modelling of their behaviour to via elimination to identifying the elements that worksMilton Ericcson as an extraordinary therapist they studiedJohn McWhorter as a Glaswegian Social Worker who...
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