Roadblocks To Education
A country can grow quickly and still leave a classroom without a teacher. The gap between the two is not an accident of pace....
The Farmer’s Daughter
A story about a debt, a bag of stones and a girl who found the third option. Most impossible choices are only offering you two....
You Notice The Road Only Where It Is Broken
A bird lands on a branch and the tree carries it without complaint. Behind everything that looks effortless there is effort that nobody watched....
The Most Difficult Task
Thales was asked what is easy and what is hard. Twenty-six centuries later the answer has not aged, and neither has the problem behind it....
From Victim To Victor
A man waits to be rescued while three boats pass him by. The old story is not really about rescue. It is about what help looks like when it arrives....
Ho’oponopono: Five Sentences to Put Down Old Weight
An old Hawaiian practice for clearing what you’re still carrying — in five short lines....
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....