words – The Mapping Motivation Series

Conversation and Insight

There are many benefits from talking to someone: friendship, support, encouragement to mention only three, and they and all the others are extremely important. But one benefit seems to me especially important, and that is the benefit of insight. When we talk to someone else do we get insight? Insight into what? Many things, butContinue reading “Conversation and Insight”

Silence and Words

I have just read over Christmas Tim Parks’ book, Teach Us to Sit Still, and what a great read it is. He has written some 21 books now and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, although this particular work is not fiction. No, in fact it is an account of how in his earlyContinue reading “Silence and Words”