Proof For ‘Fake It Until You Make It’!

Posted by on Dec 13, 2010 in body language, communication, confidence | 0 comments

It’s the stuff of cheesy, pop-psychology legend.  ‘Fake it until you make it’!  Yeah, right!  Excuse me if I refuse the snake oil and select a sick bag instead.  Only one problem.  It seems to be true. First there was Aristotle: “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing...

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Books are Power!

Posted by on Feb 16, 2009 in news and events | 0 comments

As a lover of books,  I often think I’m a member of a dying breed.  Everything’s computers, computers, computers.  But now it seems I’m not alone.  There is one other who looks to books for inspiration, and he happens to be the most powerful man in the world.  So that’s all right then. BBC reporter  Razia Iqbal has written an excellent article called The power of...

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Jedi Knights – Myth and Reality

Posted by on Nov 26, 2008 in news and events | 0 comments

Once the publicity for the Jedi workshop started to skyrocket (or is it skywalk?) I got asked a particular question over and over again.  Even if it wasn’t asked explicity, I could see it in people’s smirking eyes, and feel it in draft left by their open mouths. “You don’t think all this Jedi stuff is really real, do you?” It’s not as silly a question as it...

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How to Be Brave

Posted by on Jul 23, 2008 in communication | 4 comments

Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children’s novel The Children of the New Forest. Why am I telling you this? Because it gives some context to one of the...

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