Don’t take sweets from strangers! Did your parents ever teach you that as a kid? Because if there’s a stranger lurking around the school gates with free sweets to entice you into their car, they’re clearly up to no good. That kind of advice has stuck with many of us and when we’re offered anything for free, there’s a niggling…
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Kopfkino – my new favourite word. Such a precise and clear definition of something we all do. Kopfkino describes those moments when you play out an entire scenario in your head. If you don’t speak German it literally translates as ‘head cinema’. You and I both do that, more than we’d like to admit. There’s the nice version, for instance,…
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If you’ve ever made a snap judgement about someone in the first few seconds you’ll know this to be true: First impressions count. My car mechanic fits the stereotype of most mechanics I’ve dealt with since owning a car. He’d much rather have his head under the car bonnet than deal with actual people. When he does offer a bit…
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