This time I want to talk about facial expressions. It’s something that most people do intuitively, I am told, and interpreting the facial expressions of others is equally intuitive. Not to me, though. It may come as a surprise to you, but I didn’t even know that I couldn’t read facial expressions until I was a teenager. When I was …
Skill vs. Talent
If you had to choose, would you choose to have an inborn talent or developed a skill yourself? Optimally, I would want both to have been born with an innate talent that I had since developed through hard work making me both talented and skillful. Sadly, I am neither talented nor have I developed a skill to a high level. …
Writing – A Lifelong Journey
I’ve been a storyteller, albeit not by that name, since I was about 6 years old. I had started school and hated it, so making me walk the long deserted road to the bus stop was probably quite a challenge for my mother. We lived close to the sea on a wonderful, small island, in a small house surrounded by …