Sleep is your Superpower

Sleep is your Superpower

‘Sleep is an investment in the energy you need to be effective tomorrow’ - Tom Rath

The title of this blog post is taken from the name of a very popular TED Talk by brain scientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker. So popular in fact, that at the time of writing it had almost 17 million views! Its popularity - and that of his many other TED Talks on subjects ranging from the relationship between sleep and emotions, sleep and memory, sleep and hunger and many more - is indicative of the wider concerns about and problems with sleep affecting modern-day western society.

Emotional intelligence: why it matters in school and how to teach it

Being emotionally intelligent means understanding feelings - both our own, and other people’s.

As much as we like to think we’re rational beings, the reality is that humans are inherently emotional. Our emotions are the lens through which we perceive and interpret the world. We react emotionally to people, places and events instantly, and then recruit our rationality to justify our emotions afterwards.

10 Life Skills I Wish I'd Learnt in School

10 Life Skills I Wish I'd Learnt in School

At some point in our lives, most of us come to the realisation that school hasn’t really prepared us for the outside world. For some, that realisation comes while they’re still in school, leading to disengagement and alienation from the education system. For others, it comes when we’re sitting in our first salary negotiation, or at home, wondering why it’s so much harder to make new friends as an adult.