Think about your life, particularly your routines. Yes, these can serve us – up to a point. They help us get on with life. In other ways however, they are harmful. They can prevent us from learning and growing. They can get us stuck. Our thought patterns are similar – psychologists and neuroscientists talk about…
Ep. 111: Alastair Humphreys – Alastair’s Midsummer Morning
Think about your life, particularly your routines. Yes, these can serve us – up to a point. They help us get on with life. In other ways however, they are harmful. They can prevent us from learning and growing. They can get us stuck. Our thought patterns are similar – psychologists and neuroscientists talk about…
Ep. 110: Nancy Roberts – Diversity and Data, Because It’s 2019!
Today we talk about diversity, inclusion and equality, particularly in the workplace. This is one of those topics that is important, but polarising – the famous Jordan Peterson / Cathy Newman interview of a few months ago being a good case in point. Our insights aren’t really data-based, and that’s crazy because it’s 2019. Data…
Ep. 109 : Alex Hutchinson – Endure: the Elastic Limits of Human Performance
What are the limits to human performance? This episode is all about that. It’s not an easy question to answer. As you’ll hear, those limits are elastic – and they are about the body and the mind. My guest is Alex Hutchinson. Alex is an award-winning journalist and author. He has a regular column in…
Ep. 108: Katie-Jane L’Herpiniere – How to Develop an Adventurous Mindset
One of the types of people we love to have on the All Things Risk podcast are adventurers. Adventures capture so much about risk and uncertainty and they are a microcosm of what we face and deal with in our broader lives. If that sounds like we believe that we should live our lives a…
Ep. 107: Anna Glover and Bryan Huneycutt – Uncertainty and Risk in Live Performances
This episode was put together as a bit of an experiment – and a very successful one at that. This was our first live recording with an audience and it took place in Louisville, Kentucky at the USITT 2019 conference. USITT is the US Institute for Theatre Technology – and it aims to advance the…
