“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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]