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Rights, Wrongs, Courage, Media

2024-02-24 01:20
Wherever Alexei Navalny’s spirit is now, if he is conscious of the human stumbling he has physically left, he must be very proud of his wife and mother. There is much courage in the wo… Read More

Public ? Relations By Government Minister

2024-02-23 02:08
Regrettable is a word used by officials when what they mean is disaster. It certainly applies in the case of the British submarine re-equipped to launch missiles carrying nuclear warheads. D… Read More

ARRIVE

2024-02-20 22:00
Thanks to Ren Chun Ho for the idea and the title Life is more than the F1, good fun as it may be. Life is a journey – how many times have we been told that? We know where we st… Read More

The Daily Paradox: ARRIVE

2024-02-20 07:43
Thanks to Ren Chun Ho for the idea and the title https://terrificmentors.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/240221-Arrive.mp3 Li… Read More

A Dinner Party

2024-02-19 01:00
Ten people gathered round a table with good food, good talk and good results. What’s so strange about that? No mobile phones in sight, all evening. Each person a busy professional &nda&hell…Read More

Start A Business

2024-02-17 13:31
There are many incubators and business start-up teachers for the entrepreneur, young or old, to draw on. Our service is for those at the very first stage of thinking about turning their tech… Read More

Putting Our Mind To Work

2024-02-17 03:30
Why not just call it thinking? That’s what we do when we put our mind to work, isn’t it? An irate boss once said to me “Think about it”  after we had had a misun… Read More

King Charles III

2024-02-06 22:00
The news that King Charles has cancer is sad for all those who regard the non-political, symbolic British Monarchy as relevant in today’s world. His brightness in telling us about it i… Read More

Education – A Rethink Part 1

2024-02-03 22:00
Some readers of the Daily Paradox have asked what I mean by a ‘rethink of our education system’. They want to know to whom and in which countries it applies. Does it mean that th… Read More

The Political Ocean 

2024-01-28 22:00
If you stop by Loch Ness, Scotland, at dawn or dusk on a quiet early summer day you will find one or two couples scanning the water with their binoculars, searching for a monster. Fortified… Read More

The Tough Problems

2024-01-23 22:00
What’s the hardest thing you need to do and are reluctant to start right now? There certainly is one, even if you think there isn’t. It may be something quite small that needs yo… Read More

Tidy Up

2024-01-20 22:00
Mostly we dislike tidying up. It often signifies the end of things – a childhood, a romance, a time at university, a job, a period of being parents, a career and, at the end, a life. S… Read More

Happy Birthday, Jane

2024-01-13 03:30
Today is the 90th birthday of my only sibling, Jane Walker. I wish her, on behalf of the whole family, a Very Happy Birthday and many more to come. Jane hates being promoted in public so ins… Read More

The Quality of Quantity

2024-01-11 02:30
Prediction requires data –  at least, it does if you want to have a reasonable chance of being right. Even with data it is possible to be terribly wrong. The sub-postmasters of Br… Read More

Firstness

2024-01-08 22:00
Winning is hugely exciting. It means you are the best of whatever group is competing. It tells you that you have ‘beaten’ the others, you are someone special, distinguished, uniq… Read More

Is Lunch A soft Skill?

2024-01-06 22:00
The most important ‘soft’ skill is reading people. That means assessing your first impressions of them methodically, recognising their limitations, sensing the impact you have ma… Read More

Money & Purpose

2024-01-05 03:45
A well-known management magazine recently published an article claiming that employees were seeking money before purpose. Not all of them. We have lots of clients who realise the importance… Read More

Resolution For 2024

2024-01-01 02:03
Millions of people face a suffering, searing, tortuous New Year. The world’s problems are too frequently listed to repeat here. The unnecessary deaths of so many, including children wh… Read More
A Few Words about Christmas

A Few Words about Christmas

2023-12-23 00:30
We all wish you the joy of Christmas if that is what you celebrate and the relaxation of a few days holiday if that’s what it means to you. We wish warring peoples would lay down their… Read More

Good God

2023-12-17 22:00
Faith in a loving, benign, fair and just God is a wonderful thing. Those who have it are very blessed. They have a purpose beyond our mortal life. They are part of a community that uses time… Read More

Truth About Motivation

2023-12-12 22:00
President Zelenskyy’s encouraging pep talks to his people, and to the world, about the battle with the Russian armed forces are being criticised as untrue and therefore demotivating. O… Read More

Love Blessing With Brilliance

2023-12-04 22:00
The Risen Christ Choir celebrates 50 years with a cry for peace  Under the discerning and caring pastoral eye of Archbishop Marek Zalewski, Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore, The Risen C… Read More

Regurgitative AI

2023-12-03 22:00
Handling technology to preserve humanity? Creativity is the ability to perceive relationships. I make no apology for repeating this – those who already know it will agree that creat… Read More
Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

2023-11-30 06:15
There aren’t many world statesmen whose death causes an immediate tear or whose passing can be honestly described as the end of an era. Henry Kissinger qualifies on both counts. To… Read More

We Need Better Boards

2023-11-28 22:00
What is the problem with boards of companies, institutions and organisations of all sorts? I ask because we keep seeing and hearing about many which appear to have thrown common sense out of… Read More

The Language Of Loneliness

2023-11-27 04:14
A well-known figure in the education world had recently retired from his job of running a major University. I knew him quite well but saw him from too far away to bounce up to him and say he… Read More

Can We Hate Less?

2023-11-21 22:00
Hate is tearing the world apart. It is the root of conflicts that involve killing and maiming, depriving and annihilating.  What makes us hate? Being cheated, abandoned, slighted, ro… Read More

Your Top Skills

2023-11-09 22:00
Before today’s Daily Paradox can I thank all those who spoke so kindly about “A child’s prayer”.  So many of you wrote and I am most grateful for your emails… Read More

A Child’s Prayer

2023-11-07 07:15
Four thousand children dead in war, a horror that we all abhor.  Four thousand hopefuls growing up  expecting to taste life’s sweet cup. Four thousand breaths exp… Read More

Avoid Being OVERWHELMED

2023-11-06 04:00
In the heyday of the railways in the early 20th Century they learnt that the bulk of their business – and the most profitable – was freight. They were soon overwhelmed by it. Thi… Read More

Violence Becomes Fatal

2023-10-31 00:15
Violence is always dangerous. It is the outward manifestation of inward dissatisfaction. What starts as a niggle grows with stimulus into hatred, first of oneself for being in the position t… Read More

Listen To The QUESTION

2023-10-28 06:45
People don’t listen to questions being put to them. Example: Q: “Are you sure about that?” A: “I read it in the Good Book.” That’s no answer to the… Read More

What Should We Cherish?

2023-10-24 22:00
What scares you most in the world outside your own and your family’s health? Losing your job, perhaps? Being cheated out of money? Rows with other people? Poverty in old age? Do any of… Read More

Reason Exits Right

2023-10-16 22:00
To try to comment on the Hamas attack on Israel and the Israeli response is like asking a dying animal to assess the chances of its species surviving into the next century. The action demand… Read More

Increasing extremism

2023-10-10 22:00
In a noisy world, it is often said, s/he who shouts loudest wins. That is certainly the belief of some of the right wing of the US Republican party. It is true of Mr Putin. And, apparently… Read More

Simply Terrific Love

2023-10-06 22:00
In the midst of weary, gloomy stories about humankind’s follies, stupidities and blurred visions comes a bit of news that won’t change the climate, the economy or the sad fact of… Read More

A Real Democracy?

2023-10-04 22:00
Nobody made a greater mistake  than he who did nothing because  he could do only a little Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797) Not everyone in the world think… Read More

What Should We Teach?

2023-09-30 22:00
Second on the list of topics suggested by those who replied to us on what subjects we should tackle in the Daily Paradox is education. Nobody, I imagine, doubts that everyone must be educate… Read More

Purpose In Life – Part 2 

2023-09-28 22:00
Of twenty-six subjects suggested to those who attended the most recent Drink & Think Soiree, Purpose in Life came out top. It is something we have been working on for over thirty years… Read More

Purpose In Life – Part 1

2023-09-27 22:00
Our recent Drink & Think Soiree attendees were asked which of twenty-six subjects they most wanted to hear about in The Daily Paradox. They could opt for as many as they liked. Well ahea… Read More

Now We Are All interdependent

2023-09-10 22:00
“There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place d… Read More

Keeping Up

2023-09-05 22:00
We are overwhelmed by the amount of information, promotion, news, fake news, social media contact and process we are subjected to. Once we used to go to the bank, speak to a cheery teller, c… Read More

The Fifth Column

2023-09-03 22:00
How misinformation cripples our actionsRoberto Fabbri Any change in our lives, in our communities or in society at large depends on the amount and quality of information we have access to… Read More

The New President

2023-09-02 04:00
In years to come 2nd September 2023 will probably be remembered as the second most significant day in Singapore’s post-independence history. The New President, Tharman Shanmugaratnam… Read More

Does Your Communication Style Matter?

2023-09-01 00:30
My grateful thanks to Glenda Chew, a colleague, for suggesting this Daily Paradox Watch someone who works with big, dangerous animals. They will be gentle, talk quietly, move at a measure… Read More

Digital Distraction Vs Personal Interaction

2023-08-29 22:00
Digitization has brought tremendous benefits to the worlds of action, of achievement, of speed and of volume. It allows almost infinitely faster computing, dramatically swift financial trans… Read More

Leadership’s Lost Edge?

2023-08-26 01:30
Most things are learnt partly by theory, somewhat by practice and much by example. Leadership is mostly understood by action. My first examples of leadership were during WWII when I saw the… Read More

Communications Hide-and-Seek Is A Bad Idea

2023-08-21 22:00
He only exists for me at present as a picture printed in a well-known university review above his article on communications. Mentally I have added thirty years to his age in the picture as h… Read More

What The Heck?

2023-08-19 22:00
A favourite horse of mine, Panda, was known for her nuzzle. When you were patting her head she would nuzzle up to your shoulder and give you a gentle nod that all was well with the world. It… Read More

Gossip, Grief And Guidance

2023-08-16 22:00
A recent meeting of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce caught me by surprise. A top Minister was the speaker. Rather than a subject, it was more about what he wanted to say of t… Read More
A Birthday Brightener

A Birthday Brightener

2023-08-07 22:00
We all have years that mark changes in our progress – times when the old calls for celebration coincide with urgencies we have not noticed in the past. 1979 was a significant year for… Read More

Ask The Right Questions

2023-08-04 22:00
New in London at the age of twenty-one, I wanted to buy a typewriter. I was earning almost nothing and couldn’t afford a new one. So I looked at several second-hand ones. The one I lik… Read More

Finding

2023-08-01 15:13
Know who you are to grow who you are For those who see themselves – or others – as ‘lost’ along the lines of yesterday’s Daily Paradox (‘Lost’ 30… Read More

“LOST?”

2023-07-30 00:29
Lots of people are feeling lost.  At Terrific Mentors International we see increasing numbers. We meet many people socially and professionally who express their situation as &lsq&hell…Read More

Across The Divide

2023-07-28 03:41
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Thursday night (27Jul23) was, as it always is, a treat beyond compare. The simple and crystal clear violin playing by Chloe Chua is a trea… Read More

US & THEM

2023-07-21 16:26
Roughly half the messages we receive about life suggest that we should think more carefully about ourselves. The other half say that we will feel fulfilled and happy only if we think primari… Read More

Deal With Loneliness

2023-07-18 17:28
Nobody should be alone, ever. In our lifetimes many of us will feel lonely, often briefly, sometimes frequently, occasionally always. There are nearly 10bn people on earth, so the concept of… Read More

Batting Off Brexit

2023-07-16 15:51
No apologies for coming back to this disastrous episode in Britain’s poor international record of the last few years. Britain was an empire. It no longer is. The days of empire may hav… Read More

WISER To Do The Difficult Things

2023-07-13 19:47
You don’t need me to explain to you that some things you ought to do are really difficult to start – and even harder to finish. Preparing for events that you don’t look for… Read More

The Vilnius Dilemma

2023-07-11 17:37
I am grateful for additional thoughts by Eliza Quek It is impossible to avoid taking sides in the Russia-Ukraine war. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not in dispute but some people… Read More

THREATS

2023-07-11 17:34
No this is not the latest Hoppy-Comms App. It is a concern that uneducated comms leadto fakes – even ‘fake fakes’ – and dangerously distorted emotions, generated… Read More

AI & Immortality

2023-07-04 18:59
Dedicated to the memory of APAC’s Founder Mr Foo See Luan By Eliza Quek, Co-Founder, Terrific Mentors International Pte Ltd Former Chair, Research and First Vice President APAC… Read More

What Sort Of Intelligence

2023-06-25 14:42
Artificial Intelligence is occupying a place in all our minds. It needs to do so. When you recall how you and your friends were brought up you recognise your dependence on what has gone befo… Read More

Priorities And Pace

2023-06-25 14:40
Pace got the better of Priorities when they built the Concorde aircraft. I flew in it many times when the service between London and Singapore was operating. It was fast. Eight hours and twe… Read More

Keep Your Head? Or Find It?

2023-06-15 18:08
Kipling wrote “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…” That was in about 1895 but he might have been writing today. I have n… Read More

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