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As a professional speaker, I have the opportunity to sometimes hear a truly great speaker with a fantastic message. You might know the kind - its when the message and the experience stay with you months after others are forgotten. It is what I aspire to be. But the...

Premeditatio malorum, a premeditation of evils, is the Stoic exercise of imagining what can go wrong. Think of it as the opposite of ‘positive thinking’ - the practice of negative thinking that allows us to imagine the worst, get all the emotion out of they way, and...

History at school I was talking to a History teacher recently at a regular parent / teacher meeting. At some point I rather gushed that History was my favourite subject in school which prompted the teacher to ask me what I do now for a living. I answered, that I am a...