Month: December 2012

  • Ten Thousand Hours

    Are you excellent at something?  Anything?  Hard question to answer about oneself as it is rather subjective, but probably most of us have some idea. To become excellent at something most of us must have spent about 10 years or 10,000 hours doing it.  And it can’t be just mindless repetition, it needs to be…

  • Feeding an ego.

    The ego loves to complain and feel resentful. It loves to feel superior.  What it cannot abide is indifference.  It has come to my realisation in recent years that most troubles between humans come from our inability to control our own egocentric behaviour and our reactions to it in others.  Ego is a necessary part…

  • Improving my view

    I should be paying bills online at the moment, but I am writing because that is what I really want to do.  There are times when we should live in the moment and do what gives us immediate pleasure, and times when we should do what will actually contribute to our long term happiness. This…