Faster, higher, stronger. The Olympic motto powerfully captures the spirit of elite sport as the desire to push to the limits of human performance. So why are we not promoting …
Negative Self-Talk? High Glutamate May Be The Answer
We tend to categorise ourselves in terms of our likes, dislikes and pre-defined statements such as “I’m good at this” and “I’m not good at that”. We usually assume that …
Why Some People Are More Resilient Than Others
One of my favourite books when growing up was a beautiful collection of Aesop’s Fables that my father had given me for my 8th birthday. It was a collector’s edition, …
Bored People Don’t Eat Nuts
When I was in my 20s I worked in the corporate world as a marketing manager. One of the girls I shared an office with would regularly start huffing and …
If You Want To Change The World, Change Your Biochemistry
If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. …