The Answer to the Riddle of the Universe
A popular belief is that science will answer the big questions of the universe “what it all means” by a…
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…
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…
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…
The Lost Worlds of Your Mind
Have you had the experience of remembering something you read, but you can’t remember where you read it or what…
Creative Leadership: An Outline
We wanted to invigorate a leadership development programme, and had some ideas about how we might blaze a trail for…
Certainty stops you doing Maths
Somewhere in a Psychology Laboratory What you believe affects your ability to do maths, apparently. If you make up a…
Measures of success – culture at work
If you inherited £5 million tomorrow (from a relative you didn’t know you had), would you still go back to…
Whistle-blowing: Good or Bad?
“Sticking your head in the sand not only limits your vision, it makes your rear-end such a big target.”(1) I’d…
Stop trying to change yourself
It seems we really do desire to be clearer, more in control, more organised. Even if we find ways to…