At the beginning of 2019 I read an article on a website called Raptitude – it explains the benefits that the author David Cain experienced when he completed a ‘Depth Year“. During this year, instead of acquiring lots of new hobbies, or consuming lots of new things, he would goContinue Reading
The stats are out: more than 80% of have given up on our new years resolutions by the end of February. It makes sense – we have been told that it takes 21 days to form a habit. However, evidence suggests that establishing ‘bigger’ more complex habits take much moreContinue Reading
Thanks to Jerome at Coglode, I discovered the name for my natural response to the Christmas online retail experience – reactance. This happens when something or one appears to try and force us to make a choice, triggering an angry reaction or rebellion. In advertising it happens in two scenarios:Continue Reading
Since I discovered Raptitude, a great mindfulness blog by David Cain, I have become fixated with his latest reflection on the year just gone in which he decided to implement a guiding principle for his approach to his projects and hobbies for that year – he called it his ‘DepthContinue Reading
Many of the articles that talk about the oncoming Fourth Industrial Revolution focus on the the roles that are most likely to be lost – driving taxis, working on assembly lines, even filing accounts. Only last month there was news of a breakthrough in the capacity of learning machines: Alphabet’sContinue Reading
American trend research company Pew Research has been publishing warning signs since 2008, with its seminal paper:When Bad Times Hit the Good Life in which it demonstrates how increasingly large numbers of middle income people in that country were not making economic progress: if anything, they were falling behind. Years later, Pew releasedContinue Reading