I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.   —John Cage

We get so stuck in the details of life, the daily grind, the endless to-do lists, agonising over issues we’re facing at work or home. We’re so close to the rungs of the hamster wheel, we end up counting them endlessly as they cycle by, over and over again. The alarm clock wakes us up…

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. – Proverbs 26:11

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work,” – Thomas Edison

There’s a serious evil lurking in our corporates. It’s in our faces all the time. It flaunts itself in front of everyone. It keeps us looking into its eyes, distracting us from the real story going on around us. The slide deck is not your friend. How did it become so pervasive? No longer simply…

If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better. Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True…

Change is a strange thing. We want it, but when we realise what’s required we often rally against it. Take the example of buying your own house. You’ve been renting for years and you know it’s high time to get your own place. The process takes a long time but when all the paperwork and…