“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.” — Maxwell Maltz In 2004, Unilever launched the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. The campaign highlights that beauty has been defined by narrow, stifling…
Date Archives March 2018
Here’s to the crazy ones
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” — Albert Einstein The Roger Bannister Effect For a very long time, people thought it was impossible to run a mile under…
Where there is no vision, the people perish
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” — Proverbs 29:18 Alphcoders The Hebrew word paw-rah’ means “to perish”. Paw-rah’ was the word used in a biblical proverb where a woman’s hair was let flow out of its…
Diversity = Better Thinking: Gender, ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Neurodiversity
In 1951, psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a series of experiments on conformity. Groups of eight participants took part in a simple task. All but one participant were party to this experiment. The true focus of…
Numbing ourselves from Life, Business, Reality
William Hogarth — GinLane The Gin Craze The cover image is Gin Lane by English artist William Hogarth issued in support of what would become the Gin Act. The Gin act was introduced to prohibit gin distillers from…