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“Vulnerability is not winning or losing it is having the courage to show up when you cannot control the outcome.” Brené Brown Have you ever noticed how much humans love to fight – sometimes in verbal confrontation, sometimes more seriously? Given our...

Last week I wrote about the rise of the hybrid human from the perspective of working, this week let’s chat about the realities of waking up one morning to discover one of these strange beings living under your roof. As I have alluded to many times in...

“The hardest thing about ‘everything happens for a reason’ is waiting for the reason to come along.” — Unknown I have started and deleted the opening sentence of this column no less than five times this week, which, for me, is unusual. Usual...

“I learn by going where I have to go.” The Waking by Theodore Roethke As I sit in silence, I say to you this – there is no backwards. Backwards is but an illusion, a game we play in the mind – some might say to amuse ourselves; others might say to t...

Today I have an interesting question for you – can self-belief ever be “selfless”?

“I don’t think I had a nap today, but I’m not sure – I may have slept through part of it.” Anonymous Today’s article was inspired by the passing remark above that one of my older friends made to me this past week. Once we finally managed to stop gigg...

“I used to think time was a thief. But he gives before he takes. Time is a gift. Every minute. Every second.” Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll It’s strange how we constantly wrestle with the concept of time – imaging that we have succee...

This week at Olderhood we had the unusual experience of being contacted by a malfunctioning e-mail bot. I say malfunctioning because, as best we can tell, the string of messages that we received were not dispatched by a human and certainly were not ...

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change.” Frequently attributed to Albert Einstein Continuing last week’s analysis of fishy quotes, let’s take a look at the well-known one above which is f...

Has the technology of the moment stolen your focus? That is the question being posed by bestselling author Johann Hari in his new book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again. The idea that the human attention span is ...