Hugh MacKay
Interview by Madeleine Dore
Social researcher and best-selling author Hugh Mackay talks about our top twenty hiding places – and how we must look inside ourselves to find our common humanity.
Why do we sometimes hide from our selves, and where are we hiding?
In his latest book The Inner Self: The joy of discovering who we really are, social researcher Hugh Mackay explores our top twenty hiding places, including busyness, perfectionism, guilt, ambition, work and even the pursuit of happiness.
In this conversation, we talk about how creativity can narrow the gap between who we pretend to be or hide, and who we really are.
We talk about compassionate love as a daily discipline, writing, walking as a crucial part of the work day, being a night owl, and delve into our common hiding places such as work busyness, projection, ambition, and perfection – and how we can find our common humanity inside ourselves.
Hugh MacKay: researcher and author
““Being human entails imperfection. We are all good guys and bad guys rotating in and out of the light.”
– Hugh MacKay”