Bruce Peltier's The Psychology Of Executive Coaching: The Theory Of Human Behavior

Knowledge can be assumed as one of the most powerful thing in this world. The greater the knowledge that one’s possessed, the greater the responsibility that he need to carry in order to create a better world. Knowledge should be used by the humankind to create peace and harmony around the world, and not as a source of weapon to destroy the others. Knowledge can be generated from two ways, which are active experiment and passive observation. History has proven that from this two ways, humankind managed to develop new technologies and produced new stuff which are able to ease our life. The production of new knowledge does not necessarily means that people must create a new knowledge, which were not yet discovered by the humankind. It can be …show more content…
Passive observation can be defined as the study of living things’ behaviour through the usage of the five human senses. However, most of the time the passive observation is applied on the human science, in order to understand human behaviour better. Bruce Peltier in his book, The Psychology of Executive Coaching: theory and Application (page 149) human tends to follow the trends on the social networks, such as the fashion and language. This theory was explained further by Bruce after he observed the human behaviour such as in the Twitter and Facebook. From here, a new knowledge is produced. A knowledge where the human behaviour that is the tendency to follow new trends is proven. The history also prove that the passive observation in the human science has become a ways of human producing knowledge. For example, a farmer learns farming from the older generation by observing their ways. From here, the new farmer generation are able to develop new ways which are more efficient in farming. Thus, it can be said that the application of the passive observation has helped the humankind in producing new knowledge by developing the older