How numbers can help us find meaning in our jobs Potential. It’s a word that has troubled many a soul. Some are told they’re not living up to theirs, while many of us spend our time struggling to reach ours. When I was growing up, I thought that if you had the aptitude and means […]
On the Infinite Value of a Real Live Social Network
I feel it fiercely now. You do too. I used to think I didn’t know what I wanted. But as it turns out, I do. I want to curl into a bean bag opposite a real human being and talk for three hours while my phone is locked away in a dark cupboard. I want […]
Here’s a Trick to Becoming a Calmer Human Being
If you’re a total worrywart, steal some serenity from your surroundings If you’re overwhelmed by the relentless pace of urban life and the constant pressure to be ticking items off your to-do list, you’re not alone. Many of us have completely lost the ability to take a vacation without any guilt. The most useful advice […]
How Learning to Cook Will Enhance Your Life
Get less hangry and make more friends Despite the preponderance and popularity of cooking shows in the last decade, the prospect of spending an hour chopping and frying and standing next to a stove is enough to put many people off cooking entirely. Many of us found ourselves having to learn how to boil an […]
Lessons on Moving, Music and Making Houmous
Who knew what they’d teach about being human? You never know what you might discover on an ordinary Thursday. Here’s what I wrote down at the end of the day. Let me explain. 1. Ask for boxes Given I was about to move home, I needed cardboard boxes. Someone suggested that I ask for spare […]
We All Secretly Want to Be Movie Stars
And other truths I learned by making tiny films. It started over a decade ago. One of my sisters came up with the idea to create a birthday video for one of my other sisters (I have a lot of sisters). It would contain personal messages from all our family and friends. I warmed to […]
What We Should Have Learnt About Money But Never Did
Resources to help you finally feel better about your finances As Srinivas Rao points out in his article What We Should Have Learnt in School But Never Did — we all have fixed ideas about what money means, how much we should earn and what we should do with it. Unless we question them, these […]
Six Letters To Help You Get The Most Out Of Life
A simple way to shift your focus In the final chapter of his book, ‘Wait What?: And Life’s Other Essential Questions’ author James E. Ryan reflects on an important question about life: “And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? The “even so” at the end of the question, to me, […]
My Sister Knew The Keys To A Good Life By The Age of Three
Unintentionally, but still In a home video that will remain forever etched in our family history, my younger sister KD (aged two at the time) recounts a bedtime story. It involves a girl (we’ll call her Mia) who makes friends with several animals in a forest. At one point in her animated retelling of the […]
Why You Should Play Devil’s Advocate All The Time
What if the opposite of what you believe is true? Every number has a kind of opposite called a reciprocal. The reciprocal of 2 is 1/2, because dividing by 2 has the same effect as multiplying by 1/2: 10 ÷ 2 = 5 10 x 1/2 = 5 Reciprocals also teach us that everything (including a number!) can be […]