I was reading an interesting article in New Scientist a couple of weeks ago and it posed the question – is there an Oxbridge gene?
November 11
October 26
Do you need to get a life?
You may remember the story of Curtis Woodhouse, who was a boxer taunted by Twitter trolls in March 2013? Essentially having lost a bout (on points) he was branded a “disgrace”, amongst other things.
August 20
Certain? Are you sure?
A little while ago, I read The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischell. Most people will have some familiarity with the test that Mischell devised in the 1960’s and 1970’s. It was not his thinking about what this test tells us about human nature that caught my eye…
April 2
What do you do when you have REALLY messed up your life?
This is quite an interesting question upon which to muse.
January 24
What do you do when nobody wants you…?
Ever felt let down and dejected because you didn’t get that job, promotion, investment or part in the play, or whatever you had your heart set on?
January 14
Benchmark your determination
Hard to forget the accident that 17 year old Billy Monger had at Donnington racetrack in April 2017 that resulted in the lower part of both of his legs being amputated.
November 11
Martin Luther King didn’t say “I have a problem”…
Whilst reflecting upon a client dilemma that they deemed impossible to solve, I recalled the above statement from something I had recently read. Despite all of the challenges that Dr King could have spoken about in his seminal address in Washington in 1963, he chose to focus on the outcome (“I have a dream…”) with historic implications.
September 21
What brilliant ideas did you talk yourself out of today? (How doubt kills more dreams than failure)
Have you ever had an idea that the more you thought about it, the more excited you became? Then over the following hours and days you successfully managed to talk yourself out of it? What was the conversation you had with yourself?
August 25
Are you wasting your time?
You had 86,400 seconds today, what did you achieve with them?
August 10
Do you leave everything “on the track”?
Spare a thought for Laura Muir the Scottish athlete who ran the 1500m in London last weekend. Having led for a significant proportion of the race, she was beaten into fourth place by South African Caster Semenya.
