Reading Time: 3 minutes Climate change is the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. It will last for centuries, and fighting it will be hard. To address climate change, policy makers must deal with a complex array of players, make difficult trade-offs and think in new ways. People often ask economists to help with these sorts of decisions, because […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes So, I was one of the lucky people to travel overseas during the pandemic (for unfortunate reasons), from one country with the most hardest/severe lockdown (not only with the rest of the world but within across the States), to another country which is hypersensitive to a cold, let alone a pandemic. Over a period of
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Seriously, what are these tennis players whingeing about?! If you read Part 1, you would know about my recent trip to India. Doesn’t look that bad, does it? So, how was the return back to a country with one of the most tightly guarded borders (following the pandemic)? Chaos prevails After a couple of weeks,
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Anyone who knows me will tell you that travelling is what I live for…it’s been my passion, since I was 2 years old (yes, that young!) visiting over 40 countries since coming into this world. My passion for travel happily ‘affected’ my wife who, along with me, have been to six continents since getting married
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Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘What is happiness?’ is a question that has intrigued individuals for eons. They have climbed the highest peaks, dived to the deepest oceans, sat in caves for months and isolated themselves on islands, and yet still not found the secret to this billion dollar question. When people describe what they most want out of life,
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Previously published in South Sydney Herald. To a large extent, yes. In any bad situation, I have always striven to find the silver lining, no matter how well-hidden it may be. It’s all up to us whether we wish to fill our lives with positive thoughts or with negative ones. If life were to give me
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Like many others, I’ve spent the past months thinking over scenarios that were previously considered unnecessary. But the most gut-wrenching moment I’ve faced, by far, is to hear that my dad, who is 10,000 kms away, has gone back into ICU (as at December 2020) and could potentially not come out…and trying to travel to
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Reading Time: 4 minutes “Necessity may be the mother of invention, but dissatisfaction is the father of most breakthroughs.” Stuck in the Mud In Russia, people tell a story about a poor farmer who was on his way to the market with produce to sell. He needed to arrive before his vegetables spoiled, but his handcart’s wheels got stuck
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The “Eeyore Syndrome” is named after the famously sad little donkey, Eeyore, in the popular Winnie-the-Pooh children’s books. Eeyore walked around with his head hanging down, feeling sorry for himself. Those suffering the Eeyore Syndrome expect the worst and find shifting their attitude difficult. A lack of confidence fuels this pessimism. Positively Persevering Laughter relieves
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Reading Time: 3 minutes William Shakespeare once said, “Time is very slow for those who want, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who are sad and very short for those who celebrate but for those who love, time is eternal”. The Value of 86,400 seconds Everyday 86,400 seconds are deposited into your life account.
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