Attitude

How To Avoid Failure & Criticism

A quick guide to avoiding failure and criticism. Also see how these fleas are genetically wired to avoid failure and disappointment: Alternatively, you may wish to go off-piste and “Escape the circus and live beyond the limits of the imaginary lid”. But don’t say I didn’t warn you! “Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing” – Helen Keller

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Attitude

A Leap of Faith

Some people have some complex hobbies. Like pole-vaulting. I’m sure there is a structured way of learning pole-vaulting so that you build up to your first ‘vault’ in gradual steps. But at some point you will have to bite the bullet and go for it. It’s a leap of faith. With this is mind – where the hell do you…

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Perspective

Carpe Diem

Asking someone “What would you do if you only had 6 months to live?” is a common method to elicit someone’s true desires, to cut through the noise and find out what they really want to do. In the same spirit, the phrase Carpe Diem or “Seize the day” means to live today as though it was your last, or…

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Perspective

Lobster Theory

I once read an article by Michael Bywater in the Independent on Sunday in the mid-nineties that has stuck with me to this date.

Lobsters, apparently, have no feeling of real temperature. They spend their lives drifting the ocean currents, feeling changes in temperature but not the actual temperature

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