The Commonplace Book
There are bits of information that we come across from time to time that can profoundly change our outlook on life, or our attitudes...
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Cameron M. Clark
- Apr 16, 2021
- 2 min
The Zeigarnik Effect
The best memory strategy of them all is to not rely on your memory in the first place. If you want to be absolutely certain of...
Cameron M. Clark
- Apr 9, 2021
- 3 min
Affect Labelling
When faced with difficult emotional situations, it can often be helpful to think about the problem or situation in a different way. In...
Cameron M. Clark
- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
Of Problems and Choices
Few things are as certain in life as the fact that some things are just not within our power to change. We don't control the weather, we...
Cameron M. Clark
- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Thinking Traps
When you're cooking, sometimes things go wrong - and usually in some fairly predictable ways. You may have overcooked or undercooked your...
Cameron M. Clark
- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
Points of View
The popular sentiment is that it has been a rough year. If 2020 was a test, many of us failed. Some of us lost all sense of structure and...
Cameron M. Clark
- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
Wait... Did I Lock the Front Door??
It's bad enough that we often forget to do the things that we're supposed to do, but as many of us can attest to - it can also be a...
Cameron M. Clark
- Dec 10, 2020
- 3 min
The News You Can't Use
The news feels relentless these days, and one might be forgiven for thinking that at the end of 2020, the majority of the news that we're...
Cameron M. Clark
- Dec 3, 2020
- 3 min
Temptation Bundling
If you have all the willpower you need, you can stop reading here. If you never struggle to actually do the things you repeatedly tell...
Cameron M. Clark
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
Goals: 'Recipes' for Success
Whether we write them down or not, we all have to-do lists… or at least collections of tasks that tend to gnaw at us until we finally...
Cameron M. Clark
- Aug 27, 2020
- 3 min
Making *Good* Mistakes
This week, I want to celebrate making mistakes – but the good kind. What “good kind?”, you may be asking. Most people tend think of...
Cameron M. Clark
- Aug 13, 2020
- 1 min
The Pomodoro Technique
Do you ever struggle to devote your full, undivided, attention to a task that’s important to you? I’d be willing to bet that you do, in...