Letters from DEVSOC
Book Review #004: Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Lieberman, Daniel, Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health (London: Allen Lane, 2020)
In this e...
Book Review #003: Sentient - What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
Higgins, Jackie, What Animals Reveal About Our Senses (London: Picador, 2021)
The understanding that human beings h...
Book Review #002: A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
Heying, Heather and Bret Weinstein, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of ...
Book Review #001: Four Thousand Weeks
Burkeman, Oliver, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It (London: TheBodley Head, 2021) 245pp
Burkeman starts wi...
Flow State Vs Skills
We all have experienced that mental state when we’re so immersed in a task that we lose track of time. A never-ending...
Who Was Socrates?
Much of what we know of as western philosophy today is influenced or rather created by a man we know very little of, ...
Fulfilment Over Happiness
As I sit here looking at the blinking cursor on this blank word document, struggling to think of the right way to sta...
Who was Diogenes of Sinope?
Behind all the smiles and politeness, deep down somewhere inside, we all have a part of us that just wants to break f...
Executive Coaching
What is executive coaching?
A coaching relationship is one that facilitates the performance, learning and developmen...
Who Were The Stoics?
What does it truly take to live a good life? What does it even mean by a “good life”? Is it having a lot of money or ...
On Living Dangerously
We don’t get to choose the time we are born in. Our soul came into this earth at an exact, random time in history, on...
The Story Of Sisyphus
Things go wrong in our lives all the time. Often the moment we think a task is complete it all unravels and we have t...