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We’ve all been there. Standing at the edge of our comfort zone, heart pounding, your dreams so close. Maybe it’s that book you’ve always talked about writing, or the marathon you’ve been putting off, or that ticket to a far-off place with a name you can barely pronounce. You can see it, feel it, almost taste it. But when it’s time to turn that vision into reality, something strange happens. We freeze....

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch small fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you have to go deeper. In the deep, the fish are more powerful and pure. They are giant and abstract. And they are very beautiful. ~David Lynch The goals we set for ourselves are like fish. Do we choose a small fish or a big one?...

There it was. The blank page. My fingers over the keyboard, frozen by an invisible force that seemed to mock my every attempt at creativity. Words, usually flowing like a gentle stream of through my fingertips, had become strangers in the night – elusive, distant, and maddeningly out of reach. This wasn’t writer’s block. No. This was war: a daily battle against the twin demons of frustration and self-doubt. “Maybe I’m just not good enough....

In the science fiction saga The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a group of space explorers search for the answer to the meaning of life by creating a supercomputer. After seven million years of work, the supercomputer comes up with the answer: 42. To everyone’s astonishment, the computer replies: “That’s definitely the answer. I think the problem, to be honest, is that you didn’t really know what the question was”....

The lake was still, its surface a mirror reflecting the cloudy sky above. A young man sat in a boat, his muscles tense with frustration. This was Bruce Lee, the martial arts prodigy known as “Never Sit Still,” and he was doing something that felt utterly foreign to him: nothing. But this moment of forced inaction would lead to an epiphany that would change the course of his life and redefine martial arts forever....

Picture this: It’s the 19th century, and the British government has a problem. They’re shipping prisoners to Australia, but only 40% are surviving the journey. Humanitarian groups propose improvements, the government tries various solutions, but nothing works. The survival rate remains stubbornly at 40%. Enter Edwin Chadwick, a visionary economist with a different perspective. He realizes the problem isn’t the voyage conditions - it’s the crew’s behavior. Why? Because captains were paid for each prisoner shipped from England....

Nelson Mandela spent his life fighting to overthrow apartheid and bring democracy to South Africa, where all South Africans, regardless of their social status or color, would be allowed to vote. He was imprisoned for 27 years. He endured hard labor, severe isolation and very basic living conditions. He had to overcome internal conflicts within his political movement, whose members had doubts about the best course of action for the overthrow of apartheid....

Hundreds of millions of people were watching television. It has been an intense decade of relentless work, without rest. Expectation was at an all-time high. Too much was at stake. It was 20 July 1969, and two American astronauts were about to become the first humans to set foot on the moon. Eight years earlier, President Kennedy had inspired an entire nation by announcing his goal of putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade....

This article is about the story of The Choice of Hercules’, which is a metaphor for the ability we all have to make choices and the consequences of those choices. The version of The Choice of Hercules presented here is an excerpt from Donald Robertson’s book How to Think Like a Roman Emperor. One day, as a young man, Hercules was walking along an unfamiliar path when he came upon a fork in the road, where he sat down and began contemplating his future....

SPOILER ALERT: This blogpost is based on the book Lessons In Chemistry and contains spoilers. Elizabeth Zott hated being in class, sitting at a desk listening to monotonous teachers talking about boring subjects. It wasn’t that she didn’t enjoy learning. She loved it. But all the learning there was based on memorisation, and Elizabeth liked creativity. Elizabeth also disliked her classmates who did not share her hobbies. And all this made her suffer....