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New research suggests there is more to metaphor than using real-life examples to communicate abstract ideas. It goes much deeper… […]

Are Metaphors Real? – Some Interesting Research

Time for a simple question: what is your favourite colour? I know that it’s a fairly trivial ‘small-talk’ question, yet […]

This is a question I have thought about a lot over the years – and the answer isn’t as simple […]

It’s Spring at last – a time for beginnings and new growth. What new ventures are you considering at the […]

It’s no secret that most of us spend too much time thinking before we move into action. When most of […]

Hope is an interesting concept – on the face of it, it seems like a really good thing. But what […]

When I talk about hypnosis to business people, I often get some strange looks. It’s also fairly obvious what they’re […]

This month, I want to recommend Dan Ariely’s excellent book Predictably Irrational [UK version] The book’s premise is that we […]

I was reading this interesting book last week and one point in particular caught my interest. The author, Dan Pink, […]

Right now, I see a lot of people who are so nearly ‘there’ – they really could be where they […]

I’ve just been re-reading Tim Gallwey’s “The Inner Game of Work” and it has been interesting to note how well […]

Buy this book! Seriously. You’ve probably noticed that I don’t make recommendations very often. This book is an exception because […]