Nietzsche Was Right!

Posted by on Oct 20, 2010 in coaching, emotional intelligence, positive psychology | 1 comment

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...

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The E-Factor

Posted by on Jan 14, 2009 in business, entrepreneurship | 2 comments

The E Factor: Entrepreneurial Competencies for Person and Business Success David Gibson (Queen’s University, Belfast) It is not often that a book on entrepreneurship yanks my chain. Usually such books are either of the motivational variety – nowadays penned by some TV ‘personality’ – or the innocuous “how to start a business” kind. Both have their place, I suppose. The first...

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Working Class – Heroes or Thicko(e)s?

Posted by on May 26, 2008 in education, learning | 0 comments

An interesting debate broke out last week when some egg-head claimed that there is a direct relation between IQ and social class.  Specifically, he said that the reason why few working class types get into the best universities is because.. higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes Read his comments here.  This debate interests me for several...

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