Social Context
Abubakar Jamil on his blog Rebooting Your Mind is running a competition in the form of a face off. In each round two personal development bloggers get to answer the same questions. I thought it sounded like fun so signed up for it. In this round Michelle Russell and I answer the seven questions below. [...]
Just a quickie post. There is a discussion going on over at Harriet Welch’s blog about the attitude of therapists to their clients provoked by an ad for a therapists’ conference that Harriet received. To which Harriet wrote in reply a a letter to the organiser of the conference. It is eloquent and very well [...]
There was an article in the New York Times about ‘good’ parents raising children who were just ‘bad seeds’. I found this quite objectionable (to put it politely). Which caused me to right about Parenting and Children as a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. Parenting is an awfully fraught topic [...]
On the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog I have a guest post on honour. Despite its old-world feel I think that examining honour can be relevant to our current social predicament(s). This is because honour is a social code, and our world’s big problems are about collective problems. We need to sort out how [...]
Nacie Carson is a long-time blogging friend who has just released an excellent product called the Happy Rich System. It is for those who no longer wish to do work just so they can make enough to live on. It is a video and accompanying worksheets. (There is also the option of buying Nacie’s book [...]
The Pilgrim sets out on a journey. And the pilgrim knows where they are going. They may know that the way will be difficult – and sometimes this is a meaningful part of the pilgrimage, but in a sense both the way and the destination are known. There may be surprises on the pilgrim’s journey [...]
Long, long ago, in a universe far, far away (or so the story goes) there was a very strange land. The name of this land was Slauq. In the land of Slauq all the people did all day was compete for jackets. There were many jackets – many colours and styles to fit many shapes [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called Changing Ourselves and Changing Others. This is a very big topic to take on all at once. I look at the way that we influence each other and how demanding that others change is likely to produce the opposite. [...]
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I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. I thought it was time to look at our context and the impact it has on us from a slightly different perspective. I’m old enough to remember the impact of the discovery that, ‘the personal is the political’. I look at the [...]
One theme of the last two decades of my life has been: how do I make my money doing what I love? This blog and my website is part of finding the answer to this question. I have been blogging fairly consistently for a couple of years now and have read much on blogging and [...]
