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I was listening to the radio the other day. There was a phone in discussion on whether talent or practice was most likely to lead to success in exams. The caller who had posed the question was clearly of the opinion that it was a black and white question, and that people who were talented […]

The stress response is familiar to most of us. The heart rate increases, the palms get sweaty we have learned that it is bad for us. But what if this isn’t quite the whole story? A recent major study of over 30,000 people has found that although the risk of premature death was indeed increased […]

Welcome to the new podcast series, Daring to Dream. In this episode, I have interviewed, Beryl Subia, a young female entrepreneur, who has started not just one e-commerce business, but two, and that’s just to start. She has gone from knowing nothing about e-commerce to being nominated for an award in Kenya for her business, […]

  Reading the newspaper the other morning, delaying the inevitable walk from breakfast in the garden to my office at the other end of the house, I came across an article that got me thinking. In it, one of my tutors from the University of East London, Dr Tim Lomas, was being interviewed about one […]

I had a client recently who was upset. She had got to breaking point at work with a colleague who had been undermining her and had expressed her frustration to her partner at home. His solution was to tell her what she should do, which had made her even more upset.  Another was confused as […]