General, Learning

Don’t go changing

Crossed off something I’ve had on my bucket list for a long while, and spent the weekend with Paul McKenna and Richard Bandler. Just for fun! And boy, was it fun! Sorry? Paul what? And Richard who? Dr Paul McKenna made his name, first as a radio DJ and then [...]

Brain, General

Don’t you go changing!

OMG TESLA! OK! So now I’m going to sound like an advert for the new Tesla electric car. I’m not on commission, honest! But, just like Genius Material, it’s an absolute game changer. A ‘disrupter’. Changing gear… In a week that heard VW admitting they’d fiddled their emissions data, and [...]

Brain, Emotional intelligence, General

No laughing matter – you havin’ a larff?

 You havin’ a larff? It may be no laughing matter, but we all enjoy a good cackle, especially if we’re in the company of others it seems. Watch this entertaining video about the neuroscience of laughing, with Sophie Scott. And by the way, we’re not the only ones fond of [...]

General, Learning

Whale Communication

Whale just having fun, or warning them to keep away? Whale meet again…’Help’ and ‘Thanks’ in Whale And talking of communication, our brains don’t have a ‘reading’ module. Instead they have to recruit certain parts to try and make sense of the squiggles and grunts we call language. No wonder [...]

Emotional intelligence, General, Learning

Study Skills And Motivation Count More Than IQ

It’s official! Study Skills And Motivation Matter More Than IQ to a person’s ability to learn. ‘Educational programs focusing on students’ motivation and study skills could be an important way to advance their competency in math as well as in other subjects.’ Says Dr Kou Murayama. “Hoorah” says I! Because [...]

Emotional intelligence, General, Health

Kleptomania

Channel 4 documentary I had a ‘phone call from a documentary producer, needing an expert on board a pilot (On board? Pilot? See what I did there!!) programme for Channel 4, to help explain and ultimately help people with Kleptomania. (Dictionary definition: A recurrent urge to steal, typically without regard [...]

General, Health, Learning

Lining up the ducks…

It’s all finally coming together, at last! This week has been somewhat eventful!! Channel 4 documentary I had a ‘phone call from a documentary producer, needing an expert on board a pilot (On board? Pilot? See what I did there!!) programme for Channel 4, to help explain and ultimately help [...]

General, Learning

Giving it the swerve!

Having to swerve and brake violently to avoid running over my second snake when cycling by the river, I was curious to know what make of snake was having such an impact on my journey. Well, not impact… but you know what I mean! Good old interweb! (Have you noticed how hand-held devices are [...]

Brain, General

How the internet is changing how we learn

When was the last time you enjoyed reading a book? Yes! I said ‘book’, not online article! And, all the way to the end? We’ve got so accustomed to flitting about on the interweb that actually reading something to the end is becoming a lost skill. The way we think [...]

Emotional intelligence, General

How to wreck a marriage

Do you know how to wreck a marriage? If we’re not aware of how we do it, it’s only too easy. Unfortunately. Is it me? Or are relationships hard work sometimes? I get clients complaining to me all the time that, “it shouldn’t be this hard.” But sometimes it is, [...]