Hard-won wisdom from 42 years on planet Earth — 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, according to Douglas Adams in his book Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy. It is also the critical angle of light reflecting off glass and is also the value of the “Hubble Constant”, a measurement of how quickly objects in the…

Everything you ever wanted to know about Tony Robbins affiliated coaching but were too afraid to ask — Note: This article is also a YouTube video if you want to watch that. That stupid advert kept popping up on Facebook. “Be the best you” or “Super power your life” or whatever it said. It was one of those adverts where someone good looking smiles into the sunshine, dressed…

And what to do with that information — ADHD doesn’t exist, right? No one can focus, everyone gets distracted, we all forget things. Right? Right? Hello? I used to insist this was the case for years. I would grandstand in the pub, in the office, and to any who’d listen, explaining ADHD was simply exuberant personalities not adhering…

Everything you need is inside — Be kinder to yourself. This is what I want you to do in the next 12 months. Or, start anytime. Any day can be your 1st January. Even if you think you are already kind to yourself, I can guarantee you’re not kind enough. Be kinder. What does “be kinder”…

A proper and sensible critique of the en vogue philosophy — Stoicism; ancient Roman emperors and Greek guys in togas telling you how to live. I dunno man, feels kind of lame to me. I blame Ryan Holiday. He almost single-handedly dragged Stoicism back to life after it had been dead and buried for two thousand years and now everyone is…

Here’s a new take on an old subject — This idea for this article floated into my head out of nowhere. What was I to do with such clickbait nonsense? The title sat in my drafts folder for long enough for me to add a note; “Give up comparing yourself to others.” Cheesy, I thought, but true. I wondered…

“Don’t manage change, lead it!” Says leader singer Zack — Los Angeles based protest-rockers Rage Against the Machine are rebranding themselves as motivational speakers, it has been reported. Lead singer and all-round angry fellow, Zack de la Rocha, attended a Tony Robbins ‘Unleash the Power Within’ weekend and has since decided to ditch negative protest for what he calls “active…

His words made me stop dreaming and start doing. — It’s not the quality of your answers that matter in life, it’s the quality of your questions. Life has no answers, only best guesses, arbitrary moralisations and experiences. Ask why enough and everything is a mystery. Answers won’t save you, questions will. Good questions give you direction. What do you…

This article is all about me (and sort of you) — “Welcome to the party, pal!” John McClane screams from a broken window, one hundred stories up just after he dumps a fresh corpse onto a police car, making it a target for machine gun fire. Hardly a nice welcome, but a welcome nonetheless. This is a scene in the film…