Category: Life Lessons

Life Lessons For Your Twenties

The decade feels like a grind while you are in it, largely because you are being asked to decide things with almost no information....

When You Should Stay Silent

Some situations are made worse by anything you could say. Recognising them is a skill, and it is not the same as having no reply....

The Importance Of Time

More demands on your attention arrive every year. The supply has not moved since you were twenty....

Pursue Your True Calling

The advice assumes a calling exists, waiting to be discovered. For most people it is built rather than found....

We See The World The Way We Are

An old story about two travellers arriving at the same town, asking the same question, and receiving two opposite answers....

Successful And Unsuccessful People

The gap is rarely talent and almost never luck alone. It shows up in what each does with a thing they did not know yesterday....

Know Your Own Nature

Most self-improvement starts by deciding what to become. It works better the other way round, starting with an honest look at what you already are....

There Is Always Another Way

When every attempt has failed and every path looks blocked, one possibility is still open. There is a route you have not thought of yet....

Fear Has Two Meanings

The same feeling in your chest can send you running or send you forward. What separates the two is not courage. It is what you decide the feeling means....