Watch a four-year-old for ten minutes. Why is the sky blue? Where does the rain go? What happens if I mix these two? They run experiments all day long, treating the world like one big laboratory and themselves as the lead researcher. No one teaches a toddler to be curious. It comes
Every 16th of June, we pay tribute to the courageous youth of 1976, a pivotal moment in history that this year marks its 50th anniversary. These young people took charge of their own destiny when the adults around them faltered. However, we want to use this momentous occasion to invite the parents,
In the earlier blog, we said the disorganised heart could learn a third thing beyond reaching and withdrawing. It could learn to stay, and in time become the harbour it had always been searching for. That holds. But here is the part nobody mentions on the day the weather finally clears: a
There is a particular loneliness that does not come from being alone. It arrives in company, often with the very person you most wanted near. You long for them, and the moment they draw close, something in you tightens, scans the exits, and prepares for impact. You reach with one hand and
Part One In 2006, a neuroscientist at Stanford named Robert Sapolsky began writing a book that would take him twelve years to complete. The result, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, is one of the most important and least comfortable books written about why human beings do what