When I was about 13 years old our class was given an essay to write, about fear. The nuns at my school seemed to like cryptic assignments that would reveal shallow thinking or lack of piety. Some girls wrote about their fear of spiders or ghosts. Others, somewhat ostentatiously in my opinion, wrote about their […]
Someone once said to me, that people have an incredible propensity for solving the wrong problem really well. It makes sense. We like to feel competent and in control, so when faced with the unfamiliar or shocking we respond in the only way we know how… but we do it with great enthusiasm. It’s not […]
There’s no doubt that the poor mental health of the nation is a problem. But in a world where there are so many things that are crying out for attention, it’s difficult to get anyone to take notice. How great therefore that the fab trio of royals are using their position to highlight the problem […]
It wasn’t Maslow’s fault. He just identified the fact that people have a hierarchy of needs, and he put them in a pyramid. At the bottom are survival needs — for shelter and food. Above these are the “nice to have” needs — for love and esteem. At the top of the pyramid he put self-actualization — the need to find […]
*actually wise, not clever. The reality some of us are currently living in… “Terrorism is the worst threat to mankind.” Terrorism is created by Isis who form their ideas from the Muslim religion, which states that their version of the truth is the only truth. “Aborting fertilized cells is murder”. Abortion is very bad, […]