We so often lack confidence because we implicitly regard its possession as a matter of slightly freakish good luck. But we believe confidence is a skill that can be learned. Find out more: ow.ly/iTIr50xdLRt

May I ask you to watch this short video I made about the NHS?

"Psychology should be just as concerned with human strength as it is with weakness. It should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage." t.ted.com/0qASY50

When you can’t control what’s happening, you can still choose how to respond

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.” One of the most lucid and luminous thinkers of our time on how to live with our human fragility: brainpickings.org/2014/03/14/mar…

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.” Rilke died on this day in 1926 and left us, besides his timeless poetry, some of the best advice on love ever committed to words brainpickings.org/2018/09/03/ril…

We often make very peculiar and regrettable choices on the basis of a hidden and unmentioned fear: that of being alone. But once we realise that there isn't anything to fear about being on our own, we'll be liberated to make far healthier decisions. youtu.be/EYncNbM9HMs

“There is a huge abyss within every mind. When we belong, we have an outside mooring to prevent us from falling into ourselves.” Poet and philosopher John O'Donohue, born on this day in 1956, on belonging brainpickings.org/2016/01/11/ete…

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts…" Kahlil Gibran, born OTD in 1883, on children and the parent's task: brainpickings.org/2019/09/09/on-…

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The moment they hold hands melts our hearts ❤️👭 Today's #WednesdayMotivation is ICRC patients Zainab and Nigina learning how to use their artificial limbs at the orthopedic center in Kabul, Afghanistan. 📱: Mulkara Rahimi / ICRC

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” Emerson, born on this day in 1803, on self-reliance, the essence of genius and what it means to be a nonconformist brainpickings.org/2016/04/06/eme…

The Agonies of Choice: "Modernity has blasted open our confines and rendered us ‘free’ at every level. It sounds pleasant and in some ways it is; but it is also a very heavy and, at points, almost intolerable burden." Read more: ow.ly/6VQQ50zRh58

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View editor Brian Pelan joins Lagan Currachs for a spot of rowing down the River Lagan viewdigital.org/2017/05/01/vie…

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