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A Guide To Handling Life’s Biggest Decisions (Part 2): The Five Principles Which Run My life

The last post “A Guide to Handling Life’s Biggest Decisions (Part 1); Take Your Own Advice“, explained the role that simple questions can play to create life-guiding principles.

Such considerations should form the bedrock for how we navigate life and tackle questions like “how to live”, or “what is or isn’t important?”.

A Guide to Handling Life’s Biggest Decisions Part 1; Take Your Own Advice

(i) Taking Your Own Advice

“If only we could think the way we do for ourselves as we do for others”.

That’s the feeling I get when friends have asked me for advice.

Change Entertainment As Your Default

Anywhere someone gets a gap in their time, they normally fill it with the same thing.

Snapchat, FB, series, music, television, and on and on.

As they should, right?

What You Need To Know About Your Brain

In a countryside garden, a family of rabbits have taken their home. Any time I’ve watched them, they are the most opposite from relaxed you could think of – always alert, twitching left and right, expecting danger at any moment.

After time, the natural question is: how, after days and months without any threat, have they not learned to loosen up?

The Fallacy of “The Best” & Being 10x Better

In a society which seeks an answer for almost everything, our brains have become accustomed to offering up a host of reasons or rationale as to why things happen – known as attribution.

Yet there are many things we get wrong.

The Biological Roots of News and Why You Should Resist Them

In W.H. Auden’s poem Night Mail, he describes a Scottish town’s longing and eagerness for tomorrow’s “gossip, news and declarations”.

Within it, a mention of how “men long for news” made me deeply consider why that is so. Upon reflection, there are a handful of biological drivers at play:

The Right Way to Learn

It’s a travesty and probably an embarrassment to think that the education system never teaches you the best way to learn.

It took me years of refinement to find the answer.