Posted in Making Sense of It All, Psychology
A recent event leads to a controversial question: “Who would pay £1000 for a hand bag?” Can such a seemingly high price be justified?
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Philosophy
Most people dream of being successful. But it today’s intensely materialistic world, I think “success” is often ill-defined. Richard Branson is somebody who most people would consider successful. One of the most well known billionaires in the world, Branson started the world famous Virgin Group when he was still a teenager. Today, it is one of the best known and most successful brands in the world, spanning a diverse range of industries. In this article, he discusses what it takes to be a good entrepreneur and what success means to him on a personal level.
Posted in Experiments & Challenges, Personal Development
I am not a tidy person. Clutter is the most obvious thing you would notice if you walked into the bedroom/office I have worked out of since I was 14 and in this challenge it is that place that I will aim to declutter. Working and playing and sleeping in the same room is something [...]
Posted in Writing
Creative block: You sit down in front of the computer and you’ve decided that you are going to write. Or maybe you need to write. That assignment, that report, that screenplay, that short story needs to get written. It needs to happen and there is not much time left and you need to do it [...]
Posted in Beating The System, Business, Entrepreneurship, Modern World
If you want more money the most obvious thing to do is get a job. But the vast majority of jobs involve trading time for money. If we do not enjoy the jobs we do, if they are not a calling for us, then the trade of time for money is more than just a [...]
Posted in Being Twenty Something, Personal Development, Things To Do Before I'm 30, Thinking Out Loud
Last week marked the beginning of a new year and a new decade. In the first 24 hours of 2010 the usual torrent of text messages came from virtually everybody in my phone book. One of them referred to the next ten years as “the teenies”, in the same vein as the twenties and thirties. [...]
Posted in Psychology
It’s that time of year again! After a couple of weeks of turkey and TV, it’s time to look forward to the year ahead and think about how we intend to improve ourselves and our lives over the coming year. Every year millions of people make New Year’s Resolutions to change personal behaviours, kick habits [...]
Posted in Beating The System, Philosophy
I think a lot. And I was raised to believe a lot of concepts and paradigms that didn’t really make a lot of sense to me. I never really dared say it out loud but I was always a little doubtful about various social constructs and the nature of working life. Then, one day, quite [...]
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Interviews
The media will have you believe that all successful entrepreneurs are high school drop outs. None of them ever went to university because they weren’t academic. Instead they possessed some intangible sort of “street savvy” that you cannot learn, but have to be born with. They all started out very young selling sweets to other [...]
