Nietzsche Was Right!
Maybe you’ve heard the saying: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. At first flush it seems like nonsense, while sounding sort of cool. If someone almost stabs you to death, surely that makes you weaker? The phrase is from the German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche. Now psychologists have discovered he was right, if you make it a matter of resilience. Resilience is the...
Read MoreSome Interesting Stories #2
This is another selection of juicy-but-overlooked news stories that I found interesting and that have some relevance – promise – to the services of Sensei. How good software makes us stupid is a quality article about a fascinating book called The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. The books author is Nicholas Carr, an American writer on technology, business and...
Read MoreSome Interesting Stories #1
Every now and then ‘the news’ produces an interesting story that flies dangerously close to the ground. It therefore fails to register on our radars, which are primed to catch those important-sounding-but-personally-irrelevant ones instead. I thought it might prove useful if I gathered some of these together at semi-random intervals for your perusal. Their general theme is...
Read More7 Self-Help Tactics for Fighting Fit Mental Health
Last week, I was speaking to someone who’s currently suffering depression and looking for ways to tackle it. Naturally, since I work as a freelance trainer for Aware on their Mood Matters programme, I was asked for advice. So, here it is. This advice also comes recommend for anyone who wants to keep their mental health in good order, as well as those who’re receiving treatment...
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