Career Counseling ISIS’s Caliph

As someone who has spent his life helping people change, I can’t quite accept that it’s impossible to change someone, even ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliph: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

At the risk of unmatched naïveté, my PsychologyToday.com article today consists of a thought experiment: What might a successful few-minute first career counseling session with ISIS’s caliph look like. 

Of course, I’m not hubristic enough to think this would work but perhaps the thought experiment embeds useful principles for all of us, as I argue at the end of the article. 

HERE is the link.