Last Saturday – 4th April – I delivered a course much anticipated… by me anyway.  It was the first time I’ve got to use my philosophy background explicitly in a course, except for some work I’ve done in the area of business ethics. The course was on the meaning of life, and how to find [...]

Answer: When it’s a skill. I teach and coach communication skills.  Notice the word ‘skills’.  Not gifts, talents, or even aptitudes.  Skills.  As such, they are ‘learnable’ by anyone. As a trainer, I can show people, step-by-step, how to make presentations, negotiate, or run a meeting.  I can demonstrate the way to make a first [...]

For Friedrich Nietzsche, the basic human motivation was a will to power.  For others, from Freud and Skinner to Tony Robbins, it is a will to pleasure that drives us. Another man, Victor Frankl, had a different theory, one that was tested in the cold fires of the Nazi concentration camps.  Frankl was a psychotherapist [...]