When someone gives a gift, they create an invisible social obligation in the receiver — an implied debt that wasn’t […]

About 20 years ago I went through a phase of reading those North American motivational books — Napoleon Hill, Dale

Coachy-mode unnamed dad to his daughter as she puts her boots on for soccer: “You miss 100% of the shots

New Rule! [specific words or gestures] are now a criminal offence. New Rule! I’m removing that guardrail and bending that rule — it’s slowing us

Those idiots! They are just out for themselves. They don’t care how they impact others…. Last week we focused on

There’s a famous study from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics that gets wheeled out regularly to make a point about happiness. Bronze

Those two orange circles up there are the same size. I know it, you know it, and your eyes still don’t believe it. Surround something with

“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.” — John Steinbeck, East of

The smartest person in most rooms he walked into. Technically brilliant. His organisation knew his value — and so did

“My boys have a better chance of being well-rounded, rational young men asa result of me committing myself to this