0:00 /0:57 1× Experiment Rainy day. Pedestrian waiting by the side of the road with an umbrella in one hand and a phone in the other. All cars rush by to whereever they need to go, mindlessly splashing the pedestrian in the process. Same rainy day. Same pedestrian
Nearly every day in the summer, I take my dog to Westmoreland Park, where she plays in the creek. She runs up and down through the creek bed, diving headlong into the water, chasing ducks. Sometimes when I watch her I think about how good life can be, if we
We’ve all done it. Said: “I am so [overwhelmed, tired, stressed, busy, blocked, outmatched].” And then what do we do about it? Go out and party. Or treat ourselves. Or sleep in. Or wait. It feels better to ignore or pretend. But you know deep down that that isn’
75% of transformation programmes fail to achieve their golas. With so many complex moving pieces, it's not that success is not guaranteed - success is not even likely. Why engage in large-scale transformation in the first place, if it's such a bad deal on average? Because
I was absolute master of my old dressing gown, but I have become a slave to my new one … Beware of the contamination of sudden wealth. The poor man may take his ease without thinking of appearances, but the rich man is always under a strain. Denis Diderot (1713-1784, French