I recently read 30 Lessons for Living by Karl Pillemer. He is an American sociologist and gerontologist. In the 2000s he conducted in depth interviews with 1,800 older Americans. As the title of his book suggests he gleaned a lot of advice from these life experts....

This month sees the 165th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. In 1831 a 22-year-old Darwin set off on a five-year voyage to circumnavigate the globe on HMS Beagle, surveying the world’s flora...

Over the recent weeks I have been working on a new spiritually based training. There is still much work to do on this and it may, of course, never see the light of day. This is what the creative process is like sometimes. Not everything you work on will come to...

A friend of mine is a highly experienced coach, trainer, and facilitator. He is ex-military and previously held a senior coaching role in UK sport. Recently he shared some important insights with me. He said, that achieving in a high-performance environment requires...

Last week a friend of mine put my two recent Blogs about simplicity into an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to create a spoken podcast episode based solely on the text. What it produced was amazing. Two ‘people’ chatted on the podcast, they sounded natural and...

In my previous blog on simplicity, I said there are only two things you need to know – You are responsible for your life, for what you think about it, how you feel about it, and what you do with it. You and no one else. And that what you put out is what you get back....

The individual and the collective trend towards complexity. When we are born all we can do are simple tasks, but as we grow we can perform more and more complex activities. A measure of a developed society is one that has increased its level of complexity. But the...

Next month I am talking at the American Board of Hypnosis’s conference. I am talking about leadership and emotional intelligence, not hypnosis. So, in the interest of balance let’s talk about hypnosis here instead. People have strange ideas about what hypnosis is. I...

For the final instalment of this mini-series on leadership, let’s focus on the future. This is no easy task of course, because first of all, there is no ‘The Future’, instead there are many possible futures. Secondly, we are not all likely to agree on what the current...

It is 700 years since the death of Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant who was one of the first to travel to China, and to write about what he experienced there. With letters of introduction from the Pope, Polo, his father, and uncle travelled down the Silk Road to the...