It’s been a long while since I did a round-up of good posts I’ve found. I’ve been bookmarking (blogmarking?) them so I would have them to do a post about. I’ve realised that I won’t get the time any time soon to do a post on each so this is the collection. First up is [...]
Recently I have been reading Caroline Brazier’s Buddhist Psychology, which I recommend. This lead to me thinking about suffering and how we respond to it – this is quite important in Buddhism (not to mention in our lives). I have written about this in a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. [...]
One theme of the last two decades of my life has been: how do I make my money doing what I love? This blog and my website is part of finding the answer to this question. I have been blogging fairly consistently for a couple of years now and have read much on blogging and [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog called An Introvert’s Authenticity. The introvert referred to is yours truly. For me honouring my introversion has probably been the trickiest part of authenticity – especially at those times and in those places where you are meant to ‘sell yourself’ (I think [...]
Some Australians (those as old as me), will be able to remember ‘Kingswood Country’ – a sitcom that ran for a few seasons and was quite popular. It was about a family – the father was called Ted. Ted was a fairly crass and insensitive character. When Ted had a difficulty with something he often [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is a follow-up to a post I did earlier on dependence and independence. In the comments people asked about how dependence and independence applied to finance. This is my attempt to answer this question. This is the first of two parts. [...]
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The World of Hamish McBeth My partner and I don’t bother about Christmas very much. It doesn’t mean much to her and I loathe the commercialism; so we tend to leave it alone. This year I did buy myself a small Christmas present – a Hamish McBeth novel, called Death of a Charming Man, from [...]
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It is often said that genius and creativity lie close together. I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog where I examine this idea. I think I know what the idea is but all the creative people I know are quite sane. I also talk about bringing creativity into our [...]
