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Great ideas: Strategy 2 – read, watch, and listen broadly

Reading Time: 7 minutes Welcome back to the “How to have great ideas” series. My previous article covered the first strategy for having great ideas, which is to have lots of ideas. It’s worth reading that article first, to give you context for the second strategy: to read, watch, and listen broadly. Very few of us read, watch, and […]

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Black text over white background: 'Culture itself is defined by the stories we continually tell ourselves' Michelle Gielan

“What you heard isn’t what I said!” How to prevent miscommunication and get your message across

Reading Time: 7 minutes A large part of modern work and life centres on communication. But how often have you been surprised when someone misinterprets something you’ve said? When it happens, we shake our heads at the other person’s inability to understand us, assuming that the error lies at their end. After all, what we were saying was really

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An illustration showing the functions of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems

What you need to know about our autonomic nervous system and stress

Reading Time: 4 minutes Human beings have an autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls a great deal of how our body works. The word “autonomic” means that the system can function without our conscious control. We don’t have to tell our lungs to breathe, our heart to beat, or our stomachs to start or finish the digestive process. They

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