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Failing For The Future

Regular readers of this blog will know that there are certain concepts I tend to come back to repeatedly because I find them fascinating. Two of these, which I hope to discuss in this post, are the concepts of the future self and our misconceived notions of failure, and their intersection.  The idea that our perceptions of our future selves often influence our attitudes towards failure was planted in my mind when I read Elizabeth…

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2024: Here We Go

Happy New Year. It feels like yesterday when I wrote a blog post to reflect on 2023 and to say there’ll be a 2-week hiatus in my posting schedule, but here we are again. It’s the first week of 2024, and this January, like every January, I feel like I’ve been inundated with the same sort of new-year-new-me and time-to-improve-your-life messages that come around this time of year.  It’s everywhere too. It’s in the mainstream…

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2023 Reflections

Last December I wrote a two-part blog piece to reflect on the year 2022. In the blink of an eye, the end of the year has come around again, so I figured I’d lay the groundwork for what will hopefully become an annual tradition, and write a piece to reflect on 2023. So, what happened this year? On the writing front, as I started last year, I’ve continued to publish weekly blog posts. I’ve varied…

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In The End

Millions of people across the pond, and the world over celebrated Thanksgiving the other week, and once again, we find ourselves smack in the middle of the holiday season. This is a time of year that emphasises connection, getting together with loved ones, breaking bread and drinking wine with those around us, our colleagues, our friends, our family members. I usually find myself thinking about the idea of connection during the winter months. Maybe it’s…

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Metrics

As I write this, we find ourselves in a peculiar time of the year. You know the one I’m talking about, when the weather turns bitterly cold, we get our first glimpse of snow, it’s dark for most of the day, and despite the subzero temperatures, the streets are awash with people out and about on a mission to eat, drink and make merry. It may seem like I’m talking about the onset of winter…

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Art Is The Way

Last week I wrote about how it can sometimes be difficult to perceive progress in the moment, because progress, like a lot of other good things, tends to happen slowly over time, as opposed to bad things that tend to happen suddenly and are thus more likely to be attention-grabbing.  Well, there’s hardly a more relevant example of this for me right now than the subject of this week’s post. I’ve been writing this weekly…

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Progress Isn’t Always Obvious

A few weeks ago, one of my favourite artists released an anniversary edition of one of my favourite songs. I’m talking about Passenger’s Life’s For The Living. As I listened to it, my mind was flooded with memories from when I first heard it almost ten years ago. I remembered loving the song so much that I wanted to learn how to play it, and although I knew my way around the guitar and piano…

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Sometimes, a flop is just what you need

Unless you’re an Olympics historian or a high jump aficionado, you’ve probably never heard of Dick Fosbury. I certainly hadn’t, until a few days ago when I chanced upon the interesting story of a teenage, American high jumper who struggled to scale the required height needed to qualify for his high school track meets. A common technique at the time, known as the straddle method, required athletes to adopt a position where they had their…

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Moments

Last week I wrote about how receiving the author copies of my new book in the mail filled me with mixed emotions. There was joy and excitement as I held the book in my hands for the first time, but also fear and uncertainty as I cast my mind forward to what would happen after the release date.  I’ve had more of the same feelings this week, except, it’s all starting to feel even more…

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