Values
10-10-10 is a book that gives you a simple way to make decisions. Suzy Welch is married to Jack Welch the American executive. The bit about how they got together when Jack was separated, but not yet divorced, from his wife is on pp.154-158. What are the three tens? They are ten minutes, ten months [...]
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We tend to use the categories ‘strengths’ and ‘weaknesses’ very easily. And I think they can be valuable: it can be useful to recognise that we do some things well, and that we have major problems with one or more areas of our lives. There is a stream of thinking too about playing to our [...]
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I’m Ageing Some of us are getting on a bit. OK, I’m getting on a bit. I turned 50 this year. This makes me (at least) middle aged. A few of my contemporaries have already died. I don’t feel panicked, but perhaps a little sobered. My parents (both 84) are still alive, so I haven’t [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is about what I think of as my bottom line: that compassion and joy (or better yet, compassionate-joyfulness) are good in themselves. They are what justify other things rather than being justified by other things. I also talk about how some [...]
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