Tag: life
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Six Questions for Success Part 6/6: The Last Question
I recently celebrated my 38th birthday. A couple of days beforehand, I had one evening where for around two hours I had a crushing low mood and a sense that I was rapidly getting old with not that much to show for it. The feeling was triggered by a song that I heard that reminded…
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Six Questions for Success: Part 5/6
Should you share your goal ideas? Let’s think on this a sec, before I share with you question number five. So there you are, with a goal in mind, maybe something innovative or unique, maybe something a bit wild. Maybe something really boring. Everyone is different. You don’t mind thinking about it throughout the day,…
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Six Questions for Success Part 3: What makes a job worth doing?
”If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.” This was the quote, printed in large font on a poster, in the class I used to study cookery in as a teenager. Every time I cooked anything (well, attempted to), there it was, staring back at me, hinting that I could probably do…
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Week 27: Sailing Alone – Using the Sea to gain a perspective on the Self
To those who read this – thanks for sticking with me as I prepare to head back outside properly. I’ve been doing a massive amount of physical rehabilitation on my back muscles and it has really made a difference. Back on the trails this weekend….it’s been far too long. So the book – any good?…
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Week 24: The Thai Cave Rescue
So what do you do when you find out that 12 young boys and their football coach are stuck nearly two kilometres in a complex cave system in Thailand and the monsoon rains have just begun? You call John Volanthan. I remember watching this rescue unfold on the news back in 2018, and like many…
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Week 20: ”I think therefore I could be”: all goals start in the mind.
Ten years ago, I was teaching philosophy to 17 year olds. One group in particular had been kind of written off as low achieving, and were only in my class to fill their timetable. There were four of them (students, not classes.) And me? I have no degree in philosophy, and knew nothing about it…
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