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How To Realise Your Potential 25 July 2010 This class aims to help participants locate their principal passions and grow their seed ideas into absorbing leisure activities or even a change of vocation. Read More View all Classes Camp Bestival Read More View all News Closing for August Read More View all News How To Find A Job You Love 6 September 2010 We'll explore what a meaningful job would really look like – one that does more than just pay the bills and instead expands our personal horizons. Read More View all Classes How To Stay Calm 7 September 2010 In this session, we'll ask what our difficulty in staying calm can teach us about our lives, and whether anxiety is a necessary part of living. Read More View all Classes

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On Making Words Count

We All Need Words

22 July 2010

Can you remember the first text you ever sent?  No, I can't either. Texts are as routine to me as putting on my shoes before I go out.

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On Being Witty

Nick Southgate

21 July 2010

Challenged at New York Customs Oscar Wilde is said to have responded “I have nothing to declare but my genius”. Wilde’s preternatural ability to have the right words for the moment is why he is regarded as a great wit. Wit is a quality we value highly. Wit is not only a demonstration of intelligence, but of that intelligence giving us greater social standing.

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On Unintended Consequences

Spencer Wells

13 July 2010

Look around you. Whether you’re at work, sitting on a train or eating breakfast at home, your typical daily activities are only possible because of a momentous decision made over ten millennia ago. It was then that our ancestors, living in a few locations around the world, started growing their own food.

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