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The power of strong decision making
Odds are you are eligible to vote somewhere in the world this year. Are you excited by at least one of the choices, or are you simply turning up because there is someone you are desperate should not win? Many of those privileged to live in open democracies face slim pickings in an extraordinary year…
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Being an optimist can be lonely
In a world where media coverage has become increasingly negative over the past 170 years, it’s hardly surprising that most people in most parts of the world believe they face a more uncertain future than generations before them. And that’s despite tangible evidence that most people in most parts of the world most of the…
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Money and happiness
Money can’t buy you happiness, goes the old saying, but it lets you choose the kind of misery you prefer. Turns out people from Nordic countries are among the happiest people in the world. So clearly happiness is not about having perpetually wonderful weather or a moderate climate. There is more to it – not…
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Why inaction, as British comedian Omid Djalili learned, is not a strategy
Inaction is not a strategy
