Why Worries Disappear in the Arms of Nature
Take a walk through any market town or city in the UK and there’s a strong chance that you will stumble across a pub called The Royal Oak. There are…
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Thought Pieces gathers the latest thinking and ideas from The School of Life for Business. Here you’ll find insightful essays exploring the challenges facing professionals today and the emotional skills required to meet them.
Does Your Brain Need an Annual Performance Review?
If one were to conduct an assessment of an average person’s brain – the neurological equivalent, say, of a mid-year performance review – the feedback on offer would be very…
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We’re used to singing the praises of the human mind and body: these are, from many perspectives, two of nature’s greatest feats of engineering. We have brains capable of doing…
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It seems reasonable to suggest that the principle of innovation drove Ancient Greek engineers to develop the first steam engine known to history. The fundamental ideas that would inspire the…
ViewNavigating Bureaucracy
Most of us grow up at the centre of a very responsive world. Parents re-organise their lives so as to accommodate the needs of their offspring. They spend a good…
ViewWhy Play Is a Serious Business
Play, in most people’s minds, is the opposite of work. To hear the word is to remember childhood afternoons spent running around a garden, chasing insects and splashing puddles. Or…
ViewOn Getting an Early Night
There’s a pattern that goes like this: it’s late, given when we’ve got to wake in the morning, but instead of going to bed, we stay up. The next day,…
ViewThe Passionate Path vs. the Safe Path
When it comes to deciding what to do with our lives, we are frequently presented with what looks like a very painful choice: the passionate path vs the safe path.…
ViewWhat to Say to Your Inner Critic
Who we are, at work, can be subtly different from who we are elsewhere in our lives. Being confronted with a particular task or responsibility can summon aspects of our…
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