Three things found in Australia
Prior knowledge can make us overcomplicate things. Keeping things simple often works too.
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Don’t explain
Are you fed up of moderating yourself for people you can never please? Do you feel the pressure to constantly explain yourself to the mainstream? Stop. Learn from Toni Morrison and don’t explain. Live your life and let others catch up.
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More work, less play at school
School break times have reduced since the 1990s. There are differences for older pupils and for poorer pupils. Is leisure and rest something is only for certain sections of our society?
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Paid exposure to racism is still trauma
Continued exposure to racism and its effects creates trauma. This doesn’t change just because people are being paid. Employers need to consider their duty of care more.
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Let’s talk about money
The first rule of money club is you don’t talk about money club. The second rule of money club is you don’t talk about money club. Talking about money is vulgar, gauche, taboo. I’m going to break the rules.
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Books I read during the covid pandemic
12 months ago the UK entered its first lockdown due to the Covid19 pandemic. My reading fell off a cliff. I couldn’t concentrate, I had no energy and no motivation to read. Eventually my reading mojo returned. Here’s what I read and learned over the past year.
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My personal definition of success
It can be easy to judge ourselves against external measures of success that don’t reflect what truly matters to us. Recently I’ve defined what success means to me and it’s helped guide important decisions in my life.
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How do you know which ideas to keep?
Have you ever had an idea that you haven’t acted on then come across years later? Do we give up on some ideas too early? Maybe we need time to become the person who can execute ideas that are currently bigger that us?
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Good art grows with you
Ever tried to rewatch a film or TV show that you used to love and wondered what the hell you had been thinking? Great art lasts beyond a season. It grows as you do and offers new insights and joy over time.
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National Parks, awe and wonder close to home
Sometimes we travel thousands of miles at great expense to experience beauty and awe. My quest to visit all of the UK National Parks has taught me that we have world-class landscapes which can delight and inspire in the UK.