Category: Change Science
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Asking for help is hard, but it’s what makes us human
You never know who your true friends are, and you never truly get to experience the kindness of strangers, until you swallow your pride and ask for help. That’s what Stacey Vee discovered when she set out to organise a Bingo fundraising evening for her Lionhearted child.
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Ravi Naidoo, South Africa’s guru of design thinking
Meet the hyper-energetic entrepreneur who founded the annual Design Indaba, the showcase of design as a force for change and the good life.
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My garden is real & messy & slow, just like me
The grass is always greener on the Astroturf, but the price you pay for that instant lawn is a soul-crushing sense of a life surrendered to convenience and inauthenticity. Exercise your patience, nurture your garden, and you’ll feel better for feeling real. By Sarah Rice
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On the #LoveChange Showcase: Seawater from Riaan Manser
It takes lots of #LoveChange to cycle around Africa and kayak around Madagascar and Iceland. And to up the ante even further by kayaking (instead of sailing) into the sunset for a three-month-and-two week adventure with your girlfriend takes even more #LoveChange! Ask Riaan Manser, who shared some of his experiences on The Dan Nicholl Show.
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The most embarrassing thing about being a human
We’ve all been left red-faced by a faux pas, minor or major, in the workplace. While we may have wished at the time that the earth would swallow us whole, the good news is that the embarrassment fades over time, as we come to learn that our capacity for embarrassement is one of the things…