When pilots fly into fog or bad weather they rely on flight instruments to navigate. Pilots are trained for bad weather. They anticipate that they will become disorientated. If they don’t, at best, they will fly way off track and [...] Read more

Yuval Noah Harari asserts in his best-selling book ‘Sapiens’ that our species came to the top of the food chain as a result of our unique ability to create fiction.  By creating powerful stories human beings are able to imagine [...] Read more

Warren Buffett coined the phrase ‘ovarian lottery’ to acknowledge that from the moment we are born we are subject to luck and that life is unfair. Many of us roll our eyes when we hear children say ‘but it’s not [...] Read more

Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It reminded me of the time I was complaining to my sister that I had put on weight. She gently suggested I was perhaps [...] Read more