Feedback was invented to get more out of employees and thereby to lift the productivity and the profitability of the company. But it’s difficult for a number of reasons.

There is a danger of over-investment in the idea of ‘success’. It’s natural to want to do well-enough around work.

When we speak about self-knowledge, we’re alluding to a particular kind of knowledge – generally of an emotional or psychological kind.

The route to greater resilience is to explore how well we would cope if so much of what we think we need were to be taken away from us.

Every life is in the end made up of a succession of moods - happy ones and sad ones, despairing ones and joyful ones.

The idea of achieving work-life balance is a beautiful dream; it's also quite impossible, as we should realise without bitterness or frustration.

What holds us back from being more confident at work is often a sense that we are fundamentally different from those who succeed.

One of the characteristic flaws of our minds is to exaggerate how fragile we might be; to assume that life would be impossible far earlier than it in fact would be.

To boost our confidence ahead of challenging moments, well-meaning people often try to draw our attention to our good sides: our intelligence, our competence, our strength.