Training for Research: Failing with Style
Here’s the situation. You’re wearing a snorkel, fins and dry-suit, your feet dangling from the door of a helicopter battling…
Setting Yourself Up for Success on Your Journey to Better Health
It’s astonishing how much effect the health of your body has on your mind – simplistically, just think how hunger,…
The Power of Art
“For practical purposes, perception is thinking.” Dr Edward de Bono “90% of errors in thinking are errors of perception, not…
Processed Truth – with Additives
Inspector Lestrade: “We’re obviously looking at a suicide. It does seem the only explanation of all the facts.” Sherlock: “Wrong.…
Reclaiming our Focus from Technology
According to a mobile phone ownership survey in the UK, 74% of the population owns a smartphone – a percentage…
Is politics a failed experiment?
Why are governments so poor at actually making the world a better place? What can we learn from that to…
The Mechanism of Memory
Why can we not find anyone today who remembers they supported apartheid, or didn’t think Jimmy Savile was a little …
Your Environment Affects How You Think
For many years, the discussion around emotion was pushed aside. As the world and society industrialised, we began to glamorise…
Progressing our lives: Why is it hard? What can we do about that?
“What should be, or ought to be, is different from what is” (the error of ‘speculative thinking’ as defined by…
Learn to see what there is, not what you think there is. Especially about yourself.
Dreams and reality People can be unreliable, untrustworthy, self-serving, incapable and more besides. When things go wrong in ways they…
Lest We Remember
“Invert, always invert” recommended Jacobi. Like a cat, when we’re trying to see something clearly we should move our head…
Too close to see
What difference would it have made to the human race if we had never discovered reading and writing? How would…