Barbara Sher, an American career coach, is responsible for the enormously comforting concept of the “scanner” personality. The idea is that some of us are simply better suited to being nimble generalists, switching from interest to interest, rather than specialists, focussing on one subject, one career, or one… whatever.

If you find self-help’s fixation with discovering your ‘passion’ or your ‘life purpose’ to be oppressive and bullying, consider that you might be a scanner and that you really can make a living, and a fulfilling life, as what our specialism-obsessed society dismisses – wrongly – as a ‘jack of all trades’.

(With thanks to Philip Carr-Gomm for telling me about this).

"Train your mind to look for your successes. They are happening all the time, you just have to look for them."
"We only develop greater resilience when we are deeply emotionally connected to other people."
"If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right".
"Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should, nor that you have to".
"Simplify your life and work to be content. That will create the space for you to notice the joy. It's always there if you look."
“Personal Change Begins In The Imagination. You Have To Imagine It Before You Can Become It, Whatever ‘It’ Is”