Labels? useful or not?

Once we have been labelled as ‘cool’ or ‘a nerd’ or even a ‘psycho’ or ‘mental’, does it define us forever after regardless of the changes we make later? The belief that personality is fixed Have you ever heard a joke...

Are you scared of failure?

Today, I told one of my students that ‘feedback is information’ and ‘that there is no such thing as failure’. They responded by saying: ‘yes, there is and it’s not a pleasant experience’.  Is failure having an impact on our...

Educare or Educere?

Watching my two children speak French and English fluently at the age of 9 and 6, I marvel at the fact that we didn’t really have to teach them anything to learn to speak both languages, it just happened because they were exposed to both at home. Children are...

Further talk about my chimp

  In a previous blog, I shared what I learned from a wonderful conversation with Dr Anna Waters who is Psychological Skills Mentor at the Chimp Management Ltd. She now works exclusively using the ‘Chimp Model’. Today, I expand further on the topic… The...
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