I have always had a passion for knowledge. I learn simply for the sake of knowing. But as I became more established in life most of my learning became focused on my immediate professional needs. I told myself this was natural and necessary. Looking back now, I am not so sure this was healthy. In effect, I stopped leveraging the …
Focusing Your Mind
The illusion of multitasking Multitasking is a common buzzword in the corporate world. It is something you are expected to do and you expect others to do. Focusing your mind usually isn’t. The idea being of course that by working on dozens of things at the same time you will complete them all more quickly. I was a believer in …
Lost Art of Savouring
As living beings, we eat because we have to. And as human beings we also have the capacity to appreciate what we eat. As the saying goes, “eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art.” Yet have we lost the art of savouring? I am lucky and grateful to have 3 square meals a day. Yet until recently when …