Tag: motivation

Visualize your future and step towards it: Looking around to see the limits of motivational techniques

December 17, 2025

Look again at the strange and impossible meme above. It tries to visualise the rationale of the motivational technique in which you ‘visualise your future and step towards it’. In theory, visualising where you want to be makes you more likely to visualise and practice the things you do to make that future possible. Hence, … More Visualize your future and step towards it: Looking around to see the limits of motivational techniques

‘Education, Education, Education’ seemed good rhetoric to Tony Blair, whatever he meant by it. So let’s stay with its advantages as three sustainable objects.

February 22, 2025

Fighting for a historic third term in government, Tony Blair drove to his constituency in Sedgefield and said that his three-pronged object of political desire remained ‘Education, Education, Education’, without using the by then much mocked word. Here is what he said: Education has been, is and will be the driving mission of a New … More ‘Education, Education, Education’ seemed good rhetoric to Tony Blair, whatever he meant by it. So let’s stay with its advantages as three sustainable objects.