One of the most beautiful and terrifying things about being human is that we can believe anything... yes, literally absolutely anything. I thought that this strange ability would have been viewed as a massive responsibility, but it isn’t. It seemed to be dismissed as something that other people do. We see ourselves as the ones who have the correct beliefs. However, this isn’t the case. And this overlooked psychological bias exists in the brain of every person.   This psycholo

Cake Theory: No analogy is perfect, but here we go anyway :) Imagine that we are all bakers and we’re each baking a cake. The cake is an analogy for your life, and just like a cake, your life is not instantly created. It is made from your time, experiences, effort, energy, and the choices you make. In this analogy, it takes time to collect the cake’s ingredients, mix, bake, and decorate. A cake needs a baker to create it, so in this analogy, the baker is you, and the cake is

It could be argued that one of the meanings of life is to experience life. By doing this, we can hopefully enjoy and go with the flow of life. However, we can also be ambitious and achieve meaning and fulfilment through setting and achieving goals. These achievements can be small short-term goals or large lifelong goals. We should realise what these goals are and actively pursue them, or risk never achieving them. We must not forget that effort and energy are required in thes

I thought life would be fair if I gave the right attitude, time, and effort. But as I grew older, I realised that nothing is fair.     I guess, deep down, when we grow up, we all come to realise that life isn’t fair. However, I was sure that with consistency and hard work, that it would balance out, that I would get what I deserve and what I want. But it was slowly revealed to me that this was not the case. Hard work, consistency, and ambition did not yield all that many resu