Think It Through

  What is one thing you know you need to do in order to say with your life ‘my thinking matters’?     Health warning: this is a big question, so please take time out to consider it. It goes deep.  Or to...

“We love this way of working, we get so many ideas and such great energy from it. The only problem is we still find it hard to make decisions.” That’s a summary of the kind of thing sometimes said to...

When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently...

‘His behaviour is always a bit aggressive, isn’t it?.’ ‘I find meetings with Jim difficult every time  – his attitude is so challenging’. ‘Oh pay no attention – she’s such a grumpy bunny.’ Labels are easy. What’s hard is to step back...

  Here’s another occasional thought from the gym. I attended my first aerobics session for two months on Friday last. I was a little apprehensive, even frustrated at how much I seemed to have forgotten, almost like I would ‘fail’...

You may already have seen this on LinkedIn: https://nyti.ms/2tufYrt, a recent New York Times article headlined ‘Kindness is a Skill’.  Subtitle: Practical tips for fighting a culture of savagery. Despite the subtitle, I found the article both encouraging and pragmatic, and then...

What, if anything, have you heard about Marie Kondo, the sorting superhero? Folding, rolling, even thanking your belongings one at a time – could that all sound a tiny bit obsessive to you? Yes, me too. It all provoked seven shades...

Continuing on the occasional theme of what I notice at the gym 🙂 this week I went to a yoga session for the first time. It was a Vinyasa session, which means it was much more dynamic and challenging that...

Do you ever think ‘I’d like to read something new and relevant about the Thinking Environment, just not a whole book?!’ Nancy has written a number of short pieces on different aspects of this way of being, with headings like...

This morning I went to a studio session at my local gym.  Fresh start for September, new ideas, new moves. When the instructor simply did the new moves to the music it was hard to follow her straight away.  When...