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Cognitive fusion and career change
I made a presentation at the brilliant School of Life last weekend. Very enjoyable it was too, with robust exchanges about the nature of careers, decision making and identifying purpose. One point of...
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Ali Baba, deja vu and cognitive fusion
OK, this is a bit weird but tonight I learnt something from a fairytale. Ever since I arrive in Al Ain I’ve had the most acute, life-like, surreal sense of deja vu. Every night (well, most nights) I go...
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The Streets Demonstrate Cognitive Defusion
One of my favourite songs of all time is The Streets’ Empty Cans. But I only just realised that it’s a great example of cognitive defusion, with a lot to teach us career changers about the power of...
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Doing The Opposite
In life, we usually believe what our minds tell us, and in career change, what our mind tells us is things like ‘that will never work!’, ‘you could never do that!’ or ‘it’s too late to change now!’....
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The Voice That Says ‘I Am Brilliant’
It started to happen when I did well in exams at school. It gained serious momentum when I got a first at University. Then it became a pattern when I got onto various prestigious graduate programmes....
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Tug of War with The Anxiety Monster
“The single most remarkable fact of human existence is how hard it is for humans to be happy“. (Hayes, Wilson and Strohsahl, 1999). So begins the book that changed my life forever, the first edition...
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