And Sometimes, They Need to Be Adjusted — I often talk about beliefs as a map for the world, where we decide which direction to take on the map (read: life) based on the beliefs we’ve formed. But this metaphor might not be the best way to look at it. Maybe our beliefs are better thought of as…

And How to Improve Your Foresight — Discontentment is a pandemic in its own right. We alone are responsible for each element in our lives, but we’re often unhappy with the picture we paint for ourselves. We drive forwards on a path we laid out and find when we get to the destination that we’re disappointed. …

And Generally, the Harder, the Better — One of the consequences of our busy age is this persistent belief that busy means productive. This is why we have twenty hours of productivity masquerading as forty or even sixty hour work weeks. It’s also why we rely on multiple task organisers talking to each other, why we have…

An exercise in self-awareness — If you ask a room full of people to raise their hand if they’re more self-aware than the average person, it’s likely the majority would raise their hand. Why is this? Well, there’s an inherent bias built into the system. …

Understanding beliefs as choices No matter whether you’re born on the breadline or to a billionaire tycoon, your childhood is a time for hand-me-down beliefs. This is where you observe the world and the people in it, and you try on a range of beliefs for size. You get a…

Get ‘Back to Zero’ — We don’t get to choose who we become. Not at first anyway. At first, we get assigned some combination of traits, beliefs and habits based on a multitude of different inputs. These inputs vary from human to human based on our own unique experiences, ultimately forming a large part of…

The Other Pandemic — Right now, as I type this and surely as you read it, conspiracies spread through the digital world and infect the brains of otherwise rational human beings. And since it takes each sensational story only seconds to share no matter the distance, the infection rate of conspiracy culture is beyond…

A Matter of Perspective — The moon isn’t on lockdown, It doesn’t need to isolate, It’s not bothered about Boris’ speech Being put back to half past eight. The birds aren’t panic buying, They couldn’t give a shit, They’re all still flying close together Coz they don’t care one little bit. The trees won’t wash their branches, Or start wearing leaf-shaped gloves, And no matter how bad this shit gets The sun will still shine up above.