We all start out as explorers. From the day we enter the world, our mission is to learn what we can about our environment and the people who inhabit it. Our very survival depends on it. When our quest for discovery is thwarted by our lack of ability, we get…
Funny as it was, Monty Python fans with a bit of a spiritual hankering would have been disappointed to discover that the 80s film The Meaning of Life did nothing at all to illuminate the actual meaning of life. And Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was even more…
A few months ago I took my 6 year old niece to a new playground. The equipment was bright and modern, and looked like fun to me. But I’m not 6, and so I failed to recognise that this particular playground was in fact ‘boring’. Everything was too easy and…
There are many reasons why we may not be happy at work: the job may be too challenging or not challenging enough; the environment may be negative – filled with conflict, unreasonable demands or bad behaviour; something within us may not feel right – declining physical or mental health, or…
