Archive for September 2015
How to speak your mind despite peer pressure
Can’t speak your mind because of the herd? If everyone else is going along with it, how do you speak your mind? We were at Beamish watching nineteen geese being herded by one nearsighted dog. What would the dog do if two of the geese flew in different directions? Or even if the geese just all sat down?…
Read MoreWhat are you missing by keeping your eyes on your phone?
What are you missing? Going to a new place is much less worrying now that one has maps on the phone. But the other day, I learned a lesson about what you can miss if you focus on the phone instead of what’s around you… I was going to a course in Birmingham, and staying…
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