The Art of Brilliance Blog

Happy New Year!  No, not that new year (obviously). I’m talking about other new years.  It’s not all about the 31^st December, you know. (more…)

Fast forward to when you’re 102. Imagine you’re sitting in your care home, slumped in your chair, being fed some soup by a nice lady. She’s hugely encouraging, but it’s a messy business. (more…)

Do you talk to yourself? It’s a rhetorical question, because I know that you do; we all do.  The internal dialogue is an incessant chatter, and around the middle of August the conversation reaches fever pitch. (more…)

Life has always been a contact sport. There are 8 billion of us, rolling with the punches, ducking and diving, trying to avoid the worst of life’s jabs, uppercuts and body blows. (more…)

“Let me experiment. Let me see how good I can make myself feel by labelling things as good.”
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It’s the holiday season. You might be on the move, either to a caravan in Wales, or somewhere with palm trees. (more…)

If you’ve seen ‘Monsters Inc.’ you’ll know it’s a cool movie. If you haven’t seen it…what are you waiting for? (more…)

If the world of teaching was flat, August would have fallen off the edge of the map. It’s unchartered territory. (more…)

“The thing to know about confidence… is that you are not ever a confident person or an unconfident person.”
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We live in a society that is constantly telling us we do not have enough. We don’t look good enough. We don’t make enough money. Basically speaking, we are not enough.  (more…)

…the end.  Impressive, huh?  It’s also possible to go back in time, or create a snapshot where time stands still.  This mind-bending phenomenon is a once-a-year occurrence and quite the spectacle.  (more…)

Life can feel a bit like Mario Kart: it’s fast, furious and unforgiving. There are banana skins aplenty! (more…)