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Tag Archives: Fear
Ground Control to Major Tom
This week’s song is Bowie’s Space Oddity. Having had to take to the airwaves – and take on the national news media – at times I’ve felt a bit like Major Tom. Small stuff really – Monocle 24 a boutique … Continue reading
Posted in Achilles, Life, Work
Tagged Fear, Floating in a most peculiar way, Fun, Major Tom, Radio, Space Oddity
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24×17
What’s 24×17? C’mon, c’mon. The clock’s ticking. Struggling? Sweating? No answer? A guesstimate? Not sure? Not good at maths? Need more time? Relax. No-one can do 24×17 without thinking about it. There is no ‘fast thinking’ route to 24×17. It … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Psychology, Work
Tagged Calculation, Fast Thinking, Fear, Maths, Number Blindness
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Courage
I’ve been working in the USA this week – same language, quite different working cultures. Still Brits talking to Americans is easy enough. But add Germans, South Africans, Sudanese, Cameroonians, Central African Republicans, French, Colombians, Turks, Japanese and Koreans – … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Ethics, Life, Work
Tagged Arete, Aristotle, Blue Energy, Confidence, Courage, Enjoyment, Excellence, Fear, Fear of Failure, Happiness, Headache, Mastery, Performance, Red Energy, Stress, The Golden Mean, Travel, We are what we do, Worry
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The Fridge Door
I read a top neuroscientist’s suggestion last night that our capacity to understand how the human brain works may ultimately be limited by the capacity of our nervous system. This reminds me of a thought I had when studying philosophy … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Work
Tagged Assumptions, Bayesian Brain, Cosmopolitanism, Fear, Probability, Stoic
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Achilles
Within hours of setting up this blog and posting my first post I was gripped with a pang of pure fear. What if someone mad, bad or sad takes an interest in me, seeks to contact me, meet me or … Continue reading
