The 11th March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by the Tohoku earthquake was the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. However, while no deaths are due radiation exposure from the disaster itself, new research suggests that more people suffered and...
Read Good Walk Spoiled? I reckon it’s a great book. It’s about golf, but really a story about characters. Characters under pressure. That’s golf – either a casual hit or a classic test of character. At the highest levels of the game, the classic tests can be...
When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection. Daniel...
“Life moves on, and so should we.” Have you read Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson? It’s one of those annoyingly good books that easy to read, makes lots of good sense, yet hard to implement. It reminded me of the state of financial advice in Australia....
When do you know you are going out of business – just before you do. Why? Framing Bias. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman explained this years ago. Basically, when options are framed positively, most of us have a natural bias to favour that option. Whereas when options...
Our #2 Daughter, the family’s leading actress, recently flew off to find work hopefully in Netflix’s expanding presence in Vancouver, BC. Going for a couple of years, or longer based upon future stardom, the family wanted to hang around until her final few steps with...
