November 2013

“True intuitive expertise….

...is learned from prolonged experience..." .  So writes the 2002 Nobel Prize winning psychologist, Daniel Kahneman.  For those of you who may not quite be up to speed in their identification of those in the pantheon of psychology and its study, (putting the world to rights with Dave in The Dog And Duck, after ten pints and Wales having been beaten by South Africa doesn't count), Mr Kahneman specialises...

The end is nigh…..again…..

Today's announcement that the Yorkshire Building Society is launching its own range of 95% loan-to value mortgages has been met with a mixture of opprobrium, hysteria and much teeth-sucking from the harbingers of doom.  The main concern being voiced is that such lending will contribute to the country shouldering another burden of debt and it will be 2007 all over again.  Let us make one thing clear:...

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…

Not on this occasion twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a leaping nor nine ladies dancing; (actually the last one isn't strictly incorrect if you count the site team from Shiny New Homes R Us doing an inebriated performance to 'I Will Survive' at the Christmas shindig at The Parkway); instead, if a recent report is to be believed,  many potential homeowners should aim to be...

Our Survey Says…

For those of us who can name all the hosts of Family Fortunes (with extra points if you can also name their 'celebrity' spouses), we can all empathise with the moment Les, Leslie, Vernon et al turned and said, "Our Survey Says..." and the results of the said survey did make one wonder what bunch of inbred, intellectually challenged, 'I've got six fingers.. on one hand' hapless individuals they had...

“Knowledge of the self, is the mother of all knowledge..”

So said Khalil Gibran (look him up). As we listen and read the various panegyrics that have (quite rightly) been put forward about Tony McCoy and his record-breaking achievement of riding 4000 winners as a national hunt jockey, I do wonder what it is that makes people behave as they do and achieve success, or failure in their chosen field.  His sporting triumphs are indeed a tour de force and will almost...

“I choose a lazy peron to do a hard job…”

"Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."   So said the richest man in the world (according to the Bloomberg Billionaires List 2013), Bill Gates.  Much discussion has taken place on the twittersphere and other forums about what he actually meant (duh - it was obvious) and whether his statement was accurate and was truly representative of how to get something done.  Firstly, far be it...

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