Dancing our way out of Dogma
“There’s mental inertia – my favourite – which is a whole bunch of philosophies and attitudes and beliefs – about…
Quest for Knowledge
Sounds pretty arrogant, but I thought I’d seen it all. My role in leadership and management development had led me…
Thinking Disutopia
I act without thinking I do not understand what I am doing I am literally muddling along my activities and…
Conversations with your subconscious
It is almost a truism that we, ourselves, are our own worst enemies when it comes to understanding ourselves and…
The Art of Idleness
My mind is racing; I am in a state perpetual list writing. A weary business traveller on the red eye,…
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…
Quiet please! I’m thinking with my hands
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more…
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…
Shakespeare the Social Psychologist
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players” (As You Like It, Act 11 Scene…
The Cognitive Miser
Picture the scene, it’s the school holidays, I am, to all intent and purpose, highly stressed. I am juggling childcare…
Food for thought
When you think of better thinking tools and techniques what comes to mind initially? Books? Workshops? Coaching? How about chewing…
A Mind of our Own?
We must have time and a mind of our own if we are to improve the quality of our thinking”…