Grit and Learning: What babies can teach us

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‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again’ What can we learn from how babies learn? Persistence, the willingness to fail and practice, practice, practice. Babies don’t give up on learning how to walk: ‘when a child is learning to walk and falls down 50 times, they never think to themselves “maybe […]

Five More TED Talks You Have to Watch

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Having had feedback that people found my last post on TED talks useful, I thought another one would be a good idea. And there are so many good talks on my list and so many more out there that I’m not yet aware of that there may be more to follow in future! Liz GoosterI […]

It’s All in the Mind – Neuroscience & Coaching

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Neuroscience. The word carries an air of the unfathomable, a whiff of science fiction. Yet scientists are making bounding advances in peeping into the windows of, if not our souls, our brains. Piquantly described by Dr Geoff Bird as a ‘sloppy bag of disgustingness’, the adult human brain weighs in at 1.4 kg and has […]

Back to School

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As a veteran of two tutorials, a telephone supervision and two chemistry meetings, I now feel fully ‘into’ my coaching programme. It’s hugely stimulating and enjoyable and I must try hard not to become a dinner party bore with all my wide-eyed stories of coaching discoveries. Well, I guess that’s what this blog is for! […]