This week, I turned 39. I have always found birthdays pretty odd – arbitrarily celebrating days because of a particular orbit of a particular planet around a particular star. In relation to everything else that’s happening in the universe, it is a pretty odd phenomenon, to be honest. As someone who tries to have a […]
Is Monogamy Bad For Your Health?
By April 15, 2015 15 Comments
It has been a while since I have written a post that takes me beyond my own comfort zone. It may take many others beyond theirs, as well! Not since I took on writing on the subject of religion have I felt challenged like this. Monogamy and marriage are, for the majority of people, an […]
Fixing The Broken Triangle
By April 8, 2015 4 Comments
There is a broken triangle in my community – and in most communities around the world, in fact. The relationship between people, politics and the media is broken. Nobody is happy. Each one is dissatisfied with the other. And the trouble is, the breakdown is getting worse and worse. Our communities are as unhappy and […]
Thinking and Feeling
By March 11, 2015 Leave a Comment
There are three questions I like to ask myself whenever I have a big decision to make: What do I think about this? What do I feel about this? Why is there a difference? At one time, I did not imagine there could be any possible difference in my answers to the first two questions. […]
2 years
By March 4, 2015 5 Comments
It is just under two years since I publicly declared in a blog post that I was going to change the world. It is just under two years since I took the leap, left my comfort zone and lived up to what I am truly capable of. I wrote that post after completely rewiring how […]
The Alleviation of Wealth
By February 25, 2015 3 Comments
I have a problem with the general perception of poverty in the world today. People seem to think it’s all about money. It’s not. Over the past couple of decades, I have seen the damage caused by the poverty industry, from the unintended consequences of aid programmes. I have interacted with many charity leaders who […]
The Global Brain
By February 18, 2015 1 Comment
Something that has fascinated me throughout my life is the human mind. One of the real tragedies I have discovered is that the human mind holds us back more than anything else. The human mind has not had a serious upgrade in over 50,000 years. No matter who we are, how powerful our position or […]
The Inside Out
By January 21, 2015 8 Comments
Last week I was sent a great quote that I wanted to share and write about: “When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to […]
The Shift from Wealth to Impact
By January 15, 2015 6 Comments
“If you are giving back, then you took too much.” These are my favourite words spoken at TEDGlobal by the genius maverick entrepreneur Ricardo Semler. I also reflect on the words of Peter Diamandis (Co-Founder of Singularity University and The X-Prize) at the recent Singularity Summit in Amsterdam: “If you want to make a billion […]
The Open Door
By January 8, 2015 8 Comments
I look on 2015 as an open door. A door I have looked at for some time, holding back. And yet, somehow I know I will find the courage to walk through. I always do. I look back at every other door I have walked through, valuing the lessons and the experience. I think about […]