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  • Giving up

    We are wired to solve problems. It doesn’t matter how big or small the problem is. Once we recognise a problem exists, we usually do something about it. We buy a band-aid for our…

  • Creativity

    Human creativity is responsible for many of our greatest works of art. Michelangelo’s David. Anything by David Lynch or David Byrne. Music, paintings, sculpture, film. These things can connect with us in different ways…

  • Stopping

    Occasionally, when we push ourselves hard during a workout, we hit a wall. I don’t mean collapsing, I just mean stopping. Sometimes it happens without us noticing. We just find ourselves standing still, panting,…

  • Humblings

    When we are by ourselves, it can be easy to become delusional. A little bit too much pride, and we fall for the illusion of being more than we really are. A little bit too much…

  • The garden

    The following is a lightly edited transcript from my grandmother Jane Clement But if I walk in the garden and I don’t actively think, everything is beautiful.  It’s when you start thinking, that things…

  • The gratitude police

    Well I had a job, but I got laid off. I had a heart but it got too soft. I had a girlfriend and she lied. I had a wife but my wife she…

  • The wisdom of hypocrisy

    “Hell ain’t a bad place to be” – ACDC No one likes to be a hypocrite. No one wants to be wrong, look stupid or say something obviously contradictory. But we are often wrong, about lots of things,…

  • This time it’s personal

    I bet they’d love your sparkling personality – Carol Sturka, Pluribus The easiest way to piss someone off is to poke fun at something they take personally. Their haircut. A pair of brand new…

  • 100 thoughts

    We all have a ridiculous number of thoughts everyday. Most are invisible. Most of the rest are like a highly repetitive radio station. But there’s the occasional thing – a quote, an observation, an…