There’s a popular saying that 10 percent of your life is what happens to you. 90 percent is how you react to it. The 90/10 Effect is the recognition that your reactions shape your reality far more than your circumstances do. And if that’s true, you have considerably more control over your life than you’re…
Does your happiness depend on what other people think? Read that again. Does it sound ridiculous? It should. But if you’re someone who constantly seeks approval, needs praise before you act, or measures your worth by how others respond to you, then congratulations. You’ve just outsourced your entire emotional wellbeing to people who probably aren’t…
They say that the more you struggle in quicksand, the quicker you’ll sink, and the less you struggle, the better your chances are to get yourself out safely. Your density is half that of the quicksand. Physics says you should float. The difference is how much you struggle. The more you move, the more you…
Your brain wants you to make decisions fast. Not good decisions. Not thoughtful decisions. Just fast ones. This made perfect sense when you were running from predators on the savannah. It makes considerably less sense when you’re choosing a career, ending a relationship, or deciding whether to send that angry email. This is called Doubt…
You’re willing to do what it takes to succeed. You’ll work harder. You’ll sacrifice sleep. You’ll put in the hours. You’re ready for the challenge, the difficulty, the effort. But here’s the question you haven’t asked yourself: are you ready to accept the effect it will have on those around you? This is the Second…
Everyone’s a winner on LinkedIn. Every post is about crushing goals, smashing targets, and achieving incredible success. You’d think nobody ever failed at anything. You’d think every business decision was a stroke of genius, every investment returned 300%, and every career move was perfectly timed. You’d think failure didn’t exist, that the road to success…
Average isn’t good enough anymore. The Average Trap is where you end up when you try just enough. It’s a place you can hide from your potential, an excuse never to really stretch yourself. And maybe, if you’re honest, it’s also part of why you’ve never quite got what you really want. In a world…
The most dangerous person in any room is the one who doesn’t know what they don’t know. They’re confident. They’re decisive. They speak with authority. They’re absolutely certain they’re right. And they’re making terrible decisions that they don’t even realise are terrible, which is precisely what makes them so dangerous. It’s not the incompetent person…
Think of snowflakes. Each one is unique. Each one is intricate. Each one is beautiful in its own particular way. And every single one is made from exactly the same thing: water molecules frozen under specific conditions. Same basic ingredient. Infinite variation. No two complex snowflakes are ever likely to be alike. How does that…
Common sense is not so common at all. I see this every single day in my practice. People come in with problems that have obvious solutions, and they can’t see them. They’re overthinking, overcomplicating, and completely missing what’s staring them right in the face. Most of my job as a General Practitioner isn’t about diagnosing…