EVERYTHING. Where you choose to pay attention makes the difference between whether you manage your life, or your thoughts, feelings, memories and desires manage to overwhelm you into doing things which on reflection you would… Read More
Make a pro-truth life in a post-truth world
What is impeding truth-telling in our post-truth world? I came back to the UK after a month in India in November 2016, to find that the Oxford English Dictionary had added the word ‘post-truth’ to… Read More
Changing habits
There is a lot of talk about changing habits, and creating new ones. Essentially, the skill I want to teach, which is paying attention at will, is all about creating a new habit. So it… Read More
‘Getting un-stuck’
Over the last three weeks I have been attending a course, ‘Unleashed’, being run by a friend Blanca Vergara. The first session included an hour’s break-out room discussion to address a key question – what… Read More
The beginning of a journey – teaching people to pay attention
A story of inequality What careers teachers in the public sector might identify, quite rightly, is that young people who are typically from richer, better connected families, have something which has come to be called… Read More