Bobster Blog

Human life is woven from paradox. A good leader is a good servant, placing the welfare of the group above personal ambition. Strength is fou...

We want our joys to be photogenic, our love to have milestones, our sadness to be diagnosable. But some of the most transformative experienc...

Only do your best—the stage was not of your making, nor the circumstances your design. We are currently in the year 5225 AW. Five thou...

Mastery is not about the number of hours spent, but the number of meaningful repetitions performed. The key to improvement is not simply the...

I didn’t realise Montaigne was so influential. His words have an echo in much great literature after him, including the works of Shakespeare...

Optional ways to get things done: Be incredibly well-disciplined, ever-vigilantly defeating distraction impulses. Live in fear, constantly i...

A version before the “first draft” is a “free-write” stream of consciousness draft, where no editing or filters to thoughts are applied. It’...

It helps if you live a long time, so that decades of consistent, little, enjoyable steps take you to mountain peaks and back.   Many people ...

When I’m resting, just sitting down or in bed, drinking tea or whatever, I like to let my imagination wander. It’s when I don’t have to do a...

Social-mediaised culture has forgotten that true value is in service to others and to the world. People who blandly repeat the slogans of wh...

I’m sitting on a bench in a church graveyard (as you do) enjoying the smells of spring and the songs of little birds. I grew up before the i...

Once upon a time, I saw a thespian’s version of Iago and thought I could do it better than that. I then saw his Hamlet and thought I could d...

It helps a writer to have some aptitude and experience in acting, although appreciation of the art can be enough. Good actors are natural wr...

I would go as far as to say that most of what people believe to be true are delusions; and that people who think themselves to be intelligen...

It is helpful to be aware of low-quality thoughts when you have them. The alternative, in the absence of better or no thinking, is to do som...

If one views one’s own life as a work of art, then “happy, happy, happy” would be lacking in depth, whereas the layered contrast of colours ...

What if memories could be bought and sold? People would work to buy memories and make extra money by selling some of theirs. Memory entrepre...

Inspired by Flash Gordon and Brian Blessed, how about a new sport called Hang Gliding Archery where participants on hang gliders shoot at ta...

I took the direct scenic route through country villages from Colchester to Cambridge. It would have been the route that people pre-motorways...

These days I want people to be happy. I’ve gone through phases of degrees of jealousy and “what about me” nonsense. It’s a lot better to be ...