What do you do if you talk to someone but sense they are not truly listening to you? We have all had conversations where the other person’s attention seems elsewhere. It can lead you to feel hurt or even offended. Rather than blame your listener,...
When a scientific fact or another well-established fact of life is put to you, how do you react? For all of us, there are certain things that we will receive warmly. Other things we will reject outright, no matter how solid the evidence, due to...
How much have you changed in the last decade? How much do you expect to change over the next ten years, and does it matter? According to Dan Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and speaker, we all tend to vastly underestimate how much change is coming our way....
Simon Sinek is a famous motivational speaker and author perhaps most famous for his work on “Start With Why” - a message which encourages brands to focus on conveying their purpose to their target audiences, rather than focusing on “what they do” and “how they...
What could be the key to making you more productive? How do you become more creative and more able to engage in problem solving? The answer, according to Shaun Anchor, is to learn how to engage regularly in positive psychology. This might sound “fluffy” but consider...
What if it was possible to generate strong investment returns, but also do so with a social conscience and environmentalist mindset? According to Chris McKnett, this can absolutely be done and his compelling Ted Talk here outlines his reasons for thinking so. He talks about...
Al Gore is well-known for his outspoken views on climate change, and his Ted Talk “What Comes After An Inconvenient Truth?” is now over ten years old. Yet the seriousness of the subject matter is as timely as ever in 2020. With impressive efficiency, Al Gore...
David finds that spending time getting to know what is important to his clients helps to provide reassurance when funds take a dip in value. In the difficult market conditions of 2008/09, a lot of clients ‘bailed out’ of the market. To do this was not...
A very amusing and insightful talk where Anne Lamott shares her best tips on how to view yourself, life, families and God. “There are cracks in everything, that’s how the light gets in” is my favourite quote from her talk. Anne believes we are all doomed and...
In this video, we see David Butler describe a scenario where his broker encourages him to buy shares on the basis that the share value should increase. This type of broker discretionary relationship has not always been successful for the client; if the predicted...