Rebuilding Self-Respect
It is not restored by thinking better of yourself. It is restored by acting in ways you can respect, which is slower and more reliable....
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....
The RAS: Your Brain’s Filter, and How to Aim It
A small bundle of nerves decides what you notice all day. You can point it on purpose....
Small Talk That Actually Works
Nobody enjoys the weather conversation. There are better openings, and they are not clever ones....