If you listen to very accomplished people they often tell you to follow your passion. Passion they insist is the secret to success. Find your passion and then keep driving towards it, never give up. Sorry, but this advise has never worked for me, life is too unpredictable and our...
It seems only a few years ago that I was the centre of my children’s life and they were mine, we would spend most every evening and every weekend together. Now the youngest two of my four girls will soon be 16 and it’s a wonderful time for them, a...
I’m heading for the Northern Lakes again next week and I’m in a reflective mood, last month when I was there I was listening to Commander Chris Hadfields musings on life and I was deeply impressed. Since finishing the book, I’ve been applying some of the lessons he taught and...
I had a very late night last night trying to finish my backlog of document/appraisal reviews and admin before 10 days holiday, but I was up at 6:30 as usual, because I believe in always getting up at the same time (which helps me go to sleep the next night). ...
Twitter was buzzing yesterday after the BBC Horizon episode on How we really make decisions (iPlayer link). It mostly focussed on the work of Daniel Kahneman who wrote the seminal Thinking Fast and Slow. I’ve read the book and its hard going, describing dozens of different studies, the Horizon episode...
I’m an expert at what to do when I’m feeling rough (body wide pain, brain fog, exhausted). But everyone can improve, at least that’s the message of Heidi Grant Halvorson: The Incredible Benefits of a “Get Better” Mindset (video at the end of this post) I have to agree. When...
I’m feeling terrible today, aching all over and wading through brain fog. The number of mistakes I’m making typing this post is just crazy. Still the topic under discussion is ‘progress’ prompted by three events: the demise of my almost brand new, top of the range, ThinkPad Twist, which forced...
There are few topics in science as fascinating as the placebo effect, I’ve been following the studies for years as the effect has gone from the sidelines to become one of the most promising areas of mind-body medicine and I’ve been hacking the ‘principles’ myself, here are some of the...
I wrote this post yesterday and lost it due to some random combination of problems with WordPress, Chrome and my laptop. It’s ironic because the fact that I lost an hours work, and maybe key ideas that I won’t be able to remember didn’t get flagged to my companies service...
My current laptop, a Lenovo Twist, has been getting increasingly unreliable, each time it crashes or needs a hard power off the risk of corruption increases and today it’s poor reliability reached the rebuild threshold. I needed to hard reset it 3 times today, after the first reset Lotus Notes...