Coming to Grips with Spirituality

As many of you would know, after resigning as CEO of an electricity generator, I pursued a career as an executive coach which I found extremely rewarding. Whilst I mainly worked in organisations where I was encouraged to enhance the personal development of executives, I was sometimes also asked to coach executives that were deemed […]

June 29, 2026

On Ageing

Being now in my eighty-first year, I thought it might be appropriate (but more likely patronising) to give you young folk some ideas about what ageing is about. I can’t pretend I’ve got it all right, but I’ll give it a shot! There are many impacts of aging, but let’s start with some of […]

June 21, 2026

Stacks of Energy Issues

When I graduated from university with an engineering degree I felt decidedly incompetent compared to those who were my peers. I have tremendous admiration for engineers. They deal with and master technical complexities that leave me baffled. But, as Jordan Petersen has alluded, their competence is dealing with the Physical world and they often lack […]

June 6, 2026

Parliamentary Contrast: Labor Cynicism vs Jacinta Price’s Courage

We recently endured budget week. There were no surprises as such because, as seems usual nowadays, everything of consequence had already been leaked to the press. But some of the detail turned out to be alarming Labor has recently found another hook to hang its profligate spending on – it’s called “intergenerational equity”. But it […]

May 21, 2026

Another Way of Knowing

In the introduction to “Augustus Finds Serenity” I outlined the reason why I had sought to use the medium of metaphor and parable to outline the concepts that I thought were useful in helping people live more fulfilled lives. I started my career as an engineer and the principal tools I used were built on […]

July 8, 2009

Love Makes The World Go Round

“Love Makes the World go Round” is a title of a song I remember from my youth. It might be evocative, but it isn’t strictly true – but certainly the quality of our existence in this world is enhanced by love. My friend and colleague, Dr Phil Harker points out that we are often confused […]

July 1, 2009

The Pursuit of Happiness

My friend, the psychologist, Dr Phil Harker, has a formula for achieving psychological robustness. If we are to be well-adjusted, he teaches, first we should take steps to know ourselves, then we must learn to accept ourselves, and then finally, if we are to live lives of contentment, we must forget ourselves. It has been […]

June 26, 2009

Consciousness and World Views

In 1637, Rene˙ Descartes set the modern study of the mind-brain relationship in motion. It was at this time he took his famous sojourn in a Dutch farmhouse to escape authority and contemplate humanity’s innate nature. In trying to distill philosophy back to only those things he felt he could be sure about, he wrote, […]

June 20, 2009

A Begginner Blogger Blogs a Beginning

Hi world of readers. Let me introduce myself. I am Ted Scott. I have had a couple of careers, firstly as an executive and more lately as a management consultant and executive coach. I have been writing for some time, having written articles for magazines and journals. My first book, “Humanity at Work” was written […]

June 15, 2009