Felicity MorseOvjeren akaunt

Giving people really good attention also tends to make people more ‘interesting’ too. That is, less distracted, more engaged and present with what they are saying. Next time you find someone boring, it might just be how you are listening. Try it. We mirror each other.

Your passion is not ‘too boring’. People who talk about anything with passion bring that inspired perspective and energy to it and transmit that, bringing any activity alive. Being interested in an interested person’s interests tends to make them interesting.

Sometimes I think we should rebrand failure as ‘just an unsuccess’ or a ‘different ending to the one I planned’. Failure seems so final. Most of the things that have ended for me, were fruitful in one way or another, even if it was fruit I didn’t like the taste of

The most nuts retreat I ever went on, I travelled half way across the world - 2 flights and a boat - took 28 hours. And then when I arrived we had a talk about how time was an illusion. I nearly strangled the speaker. I was not very zen

The ability to come at things sideways when charging right at them doesn’t work is an underrated talent - and the discernment of when to do that is also pretty underrated

Sometimes when we have a problem gnawing at us and we can’t stop turning it over, the solution is to slow down and take pressure off. Think of it like when you have a tricky key in a lock. You don’t move fast or try and force it, but slow down and almost stop thinking about it

I am falling in love with Keats again. And what I hate about my inner monologue is I am reading these vaulting soaring descriptions of love for Fanny Brawne and thinking 'mmm some heavy codependency there'

If someone is 'playing the victim' you aren't going to move them out of that place by 'playing the perpetrator' - in fact you are just going to keep them stuck. Because you are stuck now - in blame. One role always invite the mirroring role in.

Want to write an article for Valentines Day: what questions do you have/wish someone would write on? thinking about - the ‘shame’ of being single - to a lonely person on Valentines Day/talking about loneliness - expectations we face in relationships - romantic mythology

I absolutely love it when you accidentally stumble into a great vast repository of things you didn’t know about and didn’t even know you didn’t know about but are very interested in - like a fat gold mine of deliciously fertile information that sets you alight creatively