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Friendsick – Navigating the Pangs of Missing Connections

Sitting here in California, having moved thousands of miles away from my home in the UK, I find myself grappling with a deep longing. Not for the place so much as the relationships I’ve left behind, the connections that have grown through life with me. It’s these key people who remember things about us that…

September 23, 2023September 22, 2023

Personality

Are you reliably you?

As humans, we seek patterns and consistency in our interactions. As a result, we all naturally operate from some sort of system for understanding people. We generalize, explain, and predict our own and others’ behaviour based on our perceptions, experiences, and beliefs. When things don’t fit with those systems or expected patterns, we become unsettled.

September 7, 2023September 12, 2023

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Falling for Charisma: How Hollow Communicators Cast Their Spell

We’ve all encountered someone who speaks with confidence and charisma, drawn in by what they say. Whether it’s listening to a podcast or meeting someone in person, there are those people who are just utterly convincing, so much so that we’re almost bewitched by their words. But why?

May 21, 2023May 21, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence – The End of Humankind or a New Beginning? Part 2

Artificial Intelligence often gets a bad rap, with the focus on its risks and warnings dominating the conversation (as covered in Part 1). But what if we shifted our perspective and explored how AI could actually help humanity and even enhance our unique qualities as human beings? By examining how AI is already being used in…

May 13, 2023

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Doing more of what’s good for you and less of what’s not

by fionamurden on August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

Did you know that 80-92% of our efforts to change behaviour fail? That means that when you say you’re going to eat more heathy food, cut out alcohol, exercise more, be less grumpy with your partner, most of the time most you won’t actually do it.

Need to fix your life, fix your habits – or so they say….

by fionamurden on August 13, 2022August 13, 2022

You can’t fail to miss the approaches that currently espouse habits as being the core to self-improvement. And because we humans like things to be simple it’s appealing to consider habits or other ‘life hacks’ as a straightforward way of making our life better. But while habits are definitely a part of who we are, they are only a very tiny part in a complex jigsaw puzzle.

Protected: Working through personality with a mentee

by fionamurden on July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

What is it you truly desire?

by fionamurden on July 11, 2022July 12, 2022

What is it that you truly desire? Or should I say what is getting in your way of going after what it is that you truly desire?

Are negative emotions derailing your chances of success? Here’s how to deal with them…

by fionamurden on June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

I believe that everyone deserves access to the knowledge, tools and support that will help them to understand themselves better, so that they can fulfil their potential. Ultimately that means living a happier and more fulfilled life. One of the fundamental elements of this is being able to understand and respond more effectively to negative emotions.

Who believes in you?

by fionamurden on March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

Having someone believe in you can change your life course. But you have to let them.

Knowing you, knowing me

by fionamurden on November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

‘How well do you really know yourself?’ A hugely significant 95% of us think that we’re self-aware, but the reality bears a stark contrast.

In Your shoes

by fionamurden on October 16, 2021October 16, 2021

When asked if we are empathic, most of us will say ‘yes’. But wait a moment before you jump in with your answer. While are all born with the capacity to be empathic, this tragedy illustrates just one of the ways that we can unwittingly switch off our empathy.

Why Rituals work

by fionamurden on September 13, 2021September 13, 2021

On this week’s episode of the Dot to Dot podcast Lou and I talk about why rituals work. It turns out that there are real, scientific benefits to rituals. Rituals are practiced in all walks of life from preparing for a job interview to playing sport – and of course in every religion.