As we mingled afterwards there were a few embarrassed faces. We all had, at some point during the evening, lost count of the steps, bumped into each other or gone in the wrong direction. One person even mentioned having to stop completely for a few minutes to catch his bearings – one of the perils …
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There you are, trying to decide the next step. Laid out before you are several options yet you’re paralysed. Instead of feeling energised you feel weighed down by indecision. You try to press on but because you lack clarity you end up more confused, frustrated and overwhelmed. Sometimes, the more choices you have the more difficult …
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I read somewhere that we can have up to 60,000 thoughts a day and that about 98% of them are the same thoughts we had yesterday. The more alarming statistic, however, was that about 80% of those thoughts are negative. I knew that we tend to focus on the negative but had no idea that …
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Stephen Hawking You make thousands of decisions a day and you’d probably say that they were pretty well thought out and rational. But what if I told you that while you were making those decisions there were any number of mental …
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When Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik sat in a busy restaurant back in the 1920s, she was there to dine not to conduct an experiment. But her attention was snared by something quite odd. She noticed that waiters at the restaurant seemed able to remember any number of complex, unpaid meal orders but struggled to recall …
What do you do when you want to do everything? When your mind is filled with so many ideas, you have what seems like an endless number of options, and yet you’re unable to take action. You find yourself analysing each one and going down rabbit holes of ‘what ifs’. Information overwhelm and overthinking are …
How To Take Action When You Want To Do Everything But Can’t Start Anything. Read More »
‘Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.’ Ludwig Wittgenstein There’s a restaurant in town that I love going to and whenever I do I order the ribs. Now there are any number of other seemingly delectable items on the menu, sometimes I’ve even been tempted to try something new, but invariably I end up …
The Totally Irrational Reason You Won’t Make That Change In Your Life. Read More »
Have you ever gone shopping for a special outfit? You know the one that just has to be perfect. You try on one after the other yet none of them seem quite right. Or maybe that isn’t the problem. Maybe there are so many to choose from that you just can’t make up your mind. After …
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