I know this isn’t a conventional topic for my blog, but I hope you’ll agree that it’s an understandable exception. Saturday was simply one of the most perfect days of my life. The setting was amazing; the OBE Chapel in the crypt of St Pauls, surrounded by the tombs of William Blake, Wren, Nelson and […]
Archives for September 2009
Free will not an illusion?
In 1983 an experiment by Benjamin Libet seemed to indicate that our unconscious was responsible for behaviour that we attributed to our own free will. This isn’t something that we as humans take kindly to – after all, you’re in charge of your decisions, aren’t you? His experiment seemed to say no, so it will […]
How to use superstitions to increase performance
Many athletes follow routines that help their frame of mind, or keep with them times that make them ‘lucky’. In this article Trevor explores why this is so, how they can be a help, and how to avoid them being a hindrance. Did you know it’s bad luck to read this without now reading the […]
Patrick Swayze
I spent yesterday sad at the passing of Patrick Swayze. Strange, isn’t it, how we can be moved by the circumstances of someone we’ve never met? I can’t claim him as a hero because I don’t know much of him as a real person, but I connected with him in some way through many of […]
Tossing your hat over the wall
In one of his last speeches John F Kennedy spoke about how Frank O’Connor the Irish writer, spoke in one of his books, how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try […]