Monthly Archives: January 2023

Born to adapt

Posted on January 27, 2023 by koenfucius

featured image: AJP/Flickr PD We can handle disruption better than we might imagine – in fact disruption can be beneficial to us About two weeks ago, my life got seriously disrupted. I have been a frequent (some might say continuous) … Continue reading →

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No opinion

Posted on January 20, 2023 by koenfucius

Do we always have to have an opinion on everything? It’s a tendency that is hard to resist, but it may be worth practising being comfortable with an absence of opinion Many moons ago, my younger daughter got me a … Continue reading →

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Daily externalities

Posted on January 13, 2023 by koenfucius

Externalities are a concept from economics that affects us all, and that deserves more attention In 1989, a member of the Ramblers noticed that a barn was being built across an age-old footpath across an East-Sussex estate. England is criss-crossed … Continue reading →

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The Most Generous Interpretation

Posted on January 6, 2023 by koenfucius

(featured image via DALL·E 2) What we end up concluding depends on where we start our thinking. And that is something that we may be able to control. One of the more remarkable phenomena in cognitive behavioural science is the … Continue reading →

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