I Can Help You Better Understand the World
You know how important this is.
On a personal level, understanding the world is both a basic human need and a prerequisite for coming up with effective actions.
On a professional level, understanding the world will help you see ways forward, set the direction or strategy, and make decisions.
I can help you construct an accurate fact-based worldview, one that can understand trends, events, issues and actors, and will result in better direction setting and decision-making.
About me
As a boy, I was a bookworm, learned to shoot a rifle, had racing pigeons, and played soccer.
As a teenager I was fascinated by figuring out what the variables were of human progress, why there were such differences in development levels, from individuals to countries. So I decided to study history and journalism, to try to learn from the past and present what these variables were.
After my studies, I became an infantry lieutenant, leading a light infantry platoon. But then I had a severe traffic accident, resulting in a paralyzed left arm and shattered left knee.
Since soccer became impractical, I decided to focus on pistol shooting: a skill I had learned during my army time, and a sport I could do with one arm. Subsequently, I became a competitive target pistol shooter, participating in national championships and the Paralympics of 1984 in the USA.
Later on, I started a software company that served amongst others the Belgian Air Force, diamond traders, pension funds, banks, and multinationals like Monsanto and Procter & Gamble, whilst I provided consulting to them.
Then I went back to my youth fascination, enriched with CEO-level consulting: figuring out how to achieve a broad understanding of the world and the ability to see the way forward and set the direction. This brought me along many research efforts, like happiness and life-satisfaction, the evolution of cultures, societies, institutions, big history, futurism, etc. I often use the umbrella term “The Human Enterprise” by which I mean, on a personal level, that human striving to improve our lives and the lives of those we care about – a nearly universal striving throughout ages and places. On a societal level, the evolution towards better institutions and better government.
Thanks,
Paul
You can contact me hereunder to ask a question, suggest a subject for an article, or anything else:
