When I look out of my window, I can see a lollipop person… as in, someone who holds a giant lollipop to help children across the road. I hate lollipop people. I’m sure they’re very nice people. But I hate them. Why do they have to help me across the road!? I’m a 34 year
I’m a big "comparer"… by which I mean, I compare myself to other people. I also compare myself to myself, in the past. And anything else I can find to compare myself to, I often do. The other day, I was interviewing a fellow speaker, who has a rather harrowing life story that they tell
I’ve been re-reading the book The Clown Manifesto. It’s a wonderful little tome (can you have a little tome?) about how to reliably create clown shows. As I’m creating a clown show right now, it made sense to revisit it. It’s filled with nuggets of great advice. Unlike chicken nuggets, I never get bored of
I regularly set myself “unreasonably” difficult challenges. For example, over the next month or so, I want to go out and practice my street clowning — interacting with the public in the street. I am often scared of social interaction. I will avoid talking to shopkeepers when I have a good reason to talk to
1. Feed them to the dog 2. Throw them out of the door. 3. Build them into a tower underneath the table with your toes. 4. Stuff them into your pocket, leave them for weeks, forget about them, and then wonder why everyone says “What’s that horrible smell?” when you come in the room. 5.
I’m struggling right now. It happens in life, right? I mean, that’s basically what life is — a series of struggles. You overcome one struggle. Then, you do well for a while thanks in part to the skills and strengths that you gained during that difficult experience. Then another challenge comes along that is beyond
Let’s get this straight up front — I am no extrovert. I have never been and I never pretended to be… well, that’s what I thought anyway. In reality, I’m not a fan of the terms “introvert and extrovert” for the same reason I’m not a fan of categorizing ourselves by “Which Friends character are
The practice of handshaking is one that baffles many scholars. It’s not that they can’t find a theory for why people do it — in fact, they have many good theories, almost all of which are well-established and ridiculous — but that the scholars can’t understand why they personally have to shake people’s hands. Scholars, as you are
Some things you never knew about Guadalupe I’m not a big traveler of areas of the world I’ve never heard of and yet I know so much about Guadalupe. Guadalupe is a portmanteau of the words Good and Elope, which was chosen by the country’s naming officiators because so many people went there to elope
I love going on holiday! I mean who doesn’t. But I tell you what I like even more… it’s the souvenirs! Ooh yeah, gotta love those things you bring back from holiday. I’m not one of these idiots who just buys a little figurine of a mouse saying Welcome to Amsterdam. That’s just a ridiculous
