He said so himself – Sir Jonathan Ive – The guy that was responsible for designing all that slick Apple stuff said he thought he was stupid. Watching an interview with him – he said his stupidity was the turning point in his career, and Apple’s development. You see – when he tried to use […]
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I’ve got ten minutes free from baby duties. Who would have thought that a little being could take up so much time and attention? Not me, not me at all. I have no idea what I used to fill my time with – if you’re a parent you know exactly what I mean. All good
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You want to live a good life, perhaps even a great one? A life, as it is said, that is worth living. So that when you get to the end of it – (and who really knows when that might be?) You have zero regrets. You wasted not a single moment. You were courageous and
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I was taking a stroll down by the river with my ladiez … Sun was shining, the river was glistening, birds a chirping. A perfectly lovely scene. I turn the corner where upon we witness a man yelling and thrashing his dog to get it to behave. Curious behaviour I thought. But behaviour that is
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There are so many ideas and theories about how to live a good life. Am I right? Just a casual flick through the interweb will give you a plethora of lifestyle tweaks and tips about what you need to do to be stronger, faster, smoother, slicker, smarter with better sleep and hair that everyone wants.
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Having a three week old baby has shown me something, very very useful. She’s the perfect thing to develop more mastery of my own mind and reactions – Getting super good at how to choose my response to challenge, and all with a smile – even at 3am. Let me tell you: Challenge is part
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I keep forgetting people gets all confused about peace.I shouldn’t, but I do. They get it all twisted – So I’m here to add a little clarity for you. It’s commonly confused that peace means giving up, surrendering, checking out, renouncing the world, giving up your life goals. Peace is seen as the opposite to
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I’m writing to you as I sit on the sunny side of the train, heading into Kent. I have a course on over the next few days, but the most crucial – and enjoyable – part of this is the feeling of sun on my face. Sitting here, doing nothing, nothing to do, just to
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How much time do you think really productive and creative people spend wasting time, just re-thinking and re-planning and re-analysing? When you want to rule your world you don’t have a lot of time to do that, do you? It’s a kind of ruthlessness that I really admire, and I’ve been talking a little about
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It’s become increasingly apparent to me, In fact more than ever with the little froglet, That I don’t have any time to waste on unconscious frivolities. Time – even and especially when I want to spend it on conscious frivolities, is short. Someone wise once said: “Don’t manage your time, manage your attention”
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