Who doesn’t love an uplifting and thought-provoking show? We think of the time spent passively in front of our laptops as though it were a complete waste. The truth is that movies and shows can tell stories that help us reflect on what we want out of life. These shows will evoke a lot of […]
These Beautiful Letters Will Help You Relax Into Your Own Skin
So you’ve heard a lot about the need to be kind to yourself. You have no idea how to actually do it. It’s not your fault. You’ve learnt from the culture we live in to blame yourselffor being lazy and undisciplined/wasting time on social media/not taking enough chances with your career/being a lousy parent/insert the many other failings you […]
It Pays Not To Do Your Best. Just Do.
A fellow tutor I deeply admire* said something to me a few weeks ago that has since stuck: anything worth doing is worth doing badly. It reminded me of some wise words my husband shared with me: 20 minutes of doing something is more valuable than 20 hours of thinking about doing something. Imagining you […]
How To Find Fun Everywhere You Go
In his book Indistractable, Nir Eyal make the point that we can reimagine the concept of fun. Eyal explained that Ian Bogost, who studies fun in great depth (as we all should), says fun doesn’t have to have be enjoyable. He defines fun as: ‘the aftermath of deliberately manipulating a familiar situation in a new […]