15 November 2019
The one thing in life that always seems to get its way is water. It will always find a way to the sea. Put a boulder in the way; it just goes around. Block the stream altogether and it will patiently fill into a lake until it can find the one point that gives way […]
15 November 2019
It is so often the case that the most useful lessons (and, it appears, the hardest) are the simplest. In Yorkshire they say “If things don’t change, they’ll stay as they are.” We know it. So why does it take so long to sink in? I heard a definition of insanity once that described it […]
15 November 2019
There are laws of motion in every area of life. Inertia and momentum are fundamental. It takes a lot of effort to get something started but once it’s in motion it takes a lot less to keep it going, but a lot to stop it. It takes an aeroplane a huge amount of energy to […]