You're probably at the age where you've been in school for a while and might be wondering "what's this all about really?" So here are a few thoughts about why education is so important and why your mum and I will unapologetically push you to make the most of every learning opportunity. First and foremost, education is the one thing no one can take away from you. It remains with you for life and under every circumstance. The kind of education your mum and I will try and provid

Talkers love a grand strategy or theory which neatly explains things that have already happened. They will be quick to claim that this 20/20 hindsight also helps predict how the future will unravel. Don’t be a sucker. No one knows how the future will unfurl - if a grand strategy or theory gets it right, it’s because even a broken clock is correct twice a day. Improvements to your life or changes to history happen because people do things - they take incremental steps to impr

All things being equal, most people prefer to hang out and make friends with people who are pleasant and easy to get on with. This is...

I need to tell you about this game we play as people. Everyone plays it, everyone has always played it, and probably always will. You have already probably started playing it without even realising. It's call the the Status Game. What is it? Status is the social position someone assigns us in their own mind after judging us - using whatever they know about us. And we in turn send out signals which help them to do this. It's not necessarily a bad thing either. Humans have lear

We live in one of the greatest times in history. Never have so many people had life so good. Life today has luxuries unimagined even 20 years ago - and this allows us to live extremely comfortable lives. But you could argue, we are too comfortable. Especially those of us who are blessed with enough food, nice homes, good schools and with family and friends to care about us. These are all things to be encouraged and celebrated of course, but when does comfortable become bad f

Growing up, there are going to be difficult people who you will need to deal with even though you don't like or trust them. They may be a classmate, they may be a good friend's parent, they may even be a teacher. Some of them are going be awful. Even worse, some of them are going to be deliberately awful. For no good reason. Say mean things. Do mean things. Want to fight you. Push you when you aren't watching. Mess with you stuff. Put you down in front of others. Tell others