When I started writing my blog “ The Bigger Picture “, one of my first posts was titled “The Giftedness Curse”. It was about the struggles of gifted kids, that are frequently overlooked or downplayed and was based on my own experiences with my oldest son. …

Elaine Aron has repeatedly denied the possibility that HSP is part of autism, despite frequently voiced counter-opinions from the autism community. Neurodiverse people have the same aha! moment when they discover that they are on the spectrum or that they are HSPs, whatever comes first, there isn’t really much difference…

Ani and Bani were closely observing all the patterns around them. Based on the familiar patterns they pieced together the bigger picture of a puzzle. They had made considerable progress in doing so, when Bani suddenly saw a pattern that didn’t make sense. He told Ani that they may have…

Recently a reader of mine commented on one of my blog posts ``We as moderni should look into what one of the antiqui, Polybius, wrote regarding άνακύκλωσις, a cyclical theory (kyklos = cycle) of governing orders”. So, let’s do that: Polybius was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period. He…

Studying and making movies in an area where intuitives (or highly sensitive people/HSPs) totally dominate. A lot of the appeal comes from being able to turn our imagination into an audiovisual reality that can be perceived by all people or creating worlds that take on a reality outside our heads…

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet (2021) by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham is a highly interesting read for all people interested in stakeholder capitalism and current economic developments. Stakeholder Capitalism isn’t exactly the most popular idea in capitalism, as most capitalist thinkers don’t…

Unfortunately, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979), an otherwise highly illuminating book, didn’t have much useful information on Earthlings. The most important information, some of which quite outdated by now, can be glimpsed from this meagre paragraph: Humans are bipedal ape descendants from the planet Earth. Not noted for…

As someone who loves to read across a wide variety of sciences there are two trends that I find concerning: a) The increasing disinterest in science and even anti-science attitudes (as during the COVID pandemic) b) The decreasing quality of science reporting and research itself As a recent example for…

The quest for the meaning of life may make you think of Monty Python or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but probably not so much of a tech billionaire. …