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This author has written 18 articles

How One Ounce of Empathy Could Have Cost Świątek Wimbledon

  • Post category:Mental Tools

There are moments in sport when a person’s greatest strength becomes their potential undoing. In the 2025 Wimbledon women’s final, as Iga Świątek methodically dismantled Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in…

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The Compost of Character: Why Our Worst Moments Make Our Best Selves

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Last week, I watched my neighbour toss decomposing vegetables into his compost bin. The smell was putrid, yet within months, this rotting matter would transform into the richest soil in…

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Why We All Need Solitary Confinement

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We have it backwards. Completely, utterly backwards. When we think of solitary confinement, our minds conjure images of punishment, isolation, psychological torture. We imagine the poor soul locked away from…

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Open Bank – background, benefits and beneficiaries

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What is Open Banking? Open banking is a regulatory framework that requires banks to provide secure, standardized access to customer financial data through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This system allows…

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Writing Away: the best ideas emerge away from home!

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There's an irony in the fact that I do most of my writing at the same desk where I spend most working days. The glass desk surface that bears witness…

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How Open Banking Opened Minds

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There's a moment in every revolutionary change when the impossible becomes inevitable. It happened when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile—suddenly, dozens of runners achieved what had seemed physiologically impossible…

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Why Your Next Promotion Might Come from Doing Someone Else’s Job

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In the 1984 film The Karate Kid, young Daniel LaRusso arrives at Mr. Miyagi's house expecting to learn devastating kicks and lightning-fast punches. Instead, he's handed a cloth and told…

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Why Optimists Have Happier Lives than Pessimists

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In our journey through life, we are often faced with challenges and setbacks. How we perceive and respond to these obstacles can greatly impact our overall happiness and well-being. Optimists,…

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The Art of Apparently Stupid Questions: A Masterclass in Intelligence

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We'll delve into a topic that may initially seem paradoxical: why some of the most brilliant minds in the world often pose seemingly stupid questions. Prepare to have your preconceived…

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Achieve better results by doing the opposite

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Getting home It was a rainy Thursday evening in October. As I approached the westbound Docklands Light Railway platform, I realised it was stacked 6 layers of commuters thick -…

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