Halcyon Inspired

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July 2019

• Warren Buffet famously said that a business’s reputation takes twenty years to build but five minutes to ruin. In an age of hyper-connectivity and global suppliers, navigating reputational risk is now a multi-faceted challenge that stretches across all aspects of an organisation.

June 2019

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Please see below selected recent anxiety-related change.

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• What's New? - Anxiety
• What's Changing? - Fear
• What's Changing? - Health
• What's Changing? - Depression
• What's Changing? - Self-Esteem

July 2019

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony - William Henry Channing

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Please see below selected recent presence-related change.

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• What's New? - Presence

October 2018

• One of the dangers of emotional life, notes The School of Life, is that we find that we don't feel 'in the moment': we're at a funeral, but we don't feel sad. We're making love, but our minds are elsewhere. It's our birthday, but we're not jolly. Why is it sometimes so hard for our true inner feelings to keep pace with events in the outer world? 

September 2018

Please see below selected recent tolerance-related change.

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• What's New? - Tolerance

June 2019

• In parts of the developed world, young people may be growing less tolerant . For example tolerance of LGBTQ individuals has decreased in the US - a jarring turn for a generation traditionally considered embracing and open. The number of Americans 18 to 34 who are comfortable interacting with LGBTQ people slipped from 53% in 2017 to 45% in 2018 – the only age group to show a decline, according to the annual Accelerating Acceptance report. And that is down from 63% in 2016.

Please see below selected recent sufficiency-related change.

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May 2019

• Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many. It has also shown that having many options is particularly confounding when the information available on them is limited or confusing.

March 2019

Beneath the sober appearance society demands of us, most of us are going a little out of our minds - giving us a cause to hold out a hand to our comparably tortured neighbours - Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety, p180

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• What's Changing? - Anxiety

May 2019

Curiosity is the lust of the mind - Thomas Hobbes

Please see below selected recent curiosity-related change.

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December 2018

• Seemingly pointless scientific research can lead to extraordinary discoveries, claimed a physicist in her TED talk, showing how many of our modern technologies are tied to centuries-old, curiosity-driven experiments - and making the case for investing in more  such experiments to arrive at a deeper understanding of the world.

October 2018

I have listened to and would recommend the following podcasts (2015-2018 recommendations to follow):

2014

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other - Pythagoras

Animal rights will end up with votes for oysters - Bertrand Russell

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out - Alice Walker

I am conscious that meat eating is not in accordance with the finer feelings, and I abstain from it whenever I can - Dr. Albert Schweitzer -1952 Nobel Peace Prize recipient

I don't eat anything with a face - Linda McCartney

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals - Henry David Thoreau

Please see below selected recent legacy-related change.

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• What's Changing? - Memory

October 2018

Stardust once more...thank you and rest in peace.

The Economist mapped Bowie's ever-changing style.

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Aurora Borealis glows in the sky above the Achavanich Stones in Caithness, Scotland, on the 9th January 2014.

"A Message for Mankind” brings together Charlie Chaplin’s famous speech from The Great Dictator and scenes of humanity’s most tragic and most hopeful moments in recent history, spanning everything from space exploration to street protests.

The always eloquent Patrick Stewart excels himself in this passionate and moving response to a question about domestic abuse.