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How your thinking works

Start here if you know something’s wrong, but you’re not sure what. We’ll help you understand how invisible thinking patterns and mental hang-ups can do real damage and how thinking better can get you better results.

  • The Knowing and Doing Paradox

    The thing is you might already know what you need to do. Let’s be honest about this. You know you need to exercise more. You know you should stop scrolling through social media at midnight. You know that job application isn’t going to write itself. You know exactly what needs to change. The problem isn’t…

  • Zero Risk Bias

    A friend of mine, miserable and exhausted from her job, underpaid compared to colleagues elsewhere, had been offered a role at another practice. She wasn’t taking it. When I asked why, she said something I’ve heard dozens of times in various forms. “But what if it doesn’t work out? What if the new place is…

  • A Map is Just a Map

    “The map is not the territory.” Alfred Korzybski wrote this early last century, and it’s one of those phrases that sounds obvious until you realise how completely most people ignore it. They confuse the description of reality with reality itself, the menu with the meal, the guidebook with the journey. And then they wonder why…

  • Blind Spot Bias

    Most people I meet, and most people I talk to professionally, are on the surface just regular people doing the best that they can do to get on with their lives. But go a little deeper, and this is why the self-improvement industry is so large: there are many, many people who want a bit…

  • Denial and the Ostrich Effect

    Denial and the Ostrich Effect

    Where are you right now? Just take a minute or two and have a little think, as I’m asking this question because I want you to think about your present reality. I want you to be honest with yourself too and really step back and take a look at your situation, because denial of this…

  • The Elephant in the Room

    This article moves away from ostriches and moves us onto elephants. I’m sure you have heard of the expression “don’t mention the elephant in the room,” which refers to an issue that’s so big, that is just so obvious to all, but although being obvious nobody is wanting to confront it. And here’s what you…