Know your mind

Learn how your mind works to improve your health, work and relationships

How to hack your to-do list

15 January 2018

Bottomless inboxes and endless to-do lists have become the bane of our lives. Trying to keep track of outstanding tasks can be stressful – our attention has a limited capacity and we can only fit so much in our mind at any one time. But help is at hand. Research suggests that rather than removing […]

Why we feel anxious

10 January 2018

We’re all aware of the negative connotations of anxiety, but new research suggests that we may be able to learn to harness it to our advantage. Anxiety can be a fear of imminent danger, but it’s also a broader anticipation of possible threats. We make a powerful mental record of signals that alert us to […]

Setting the record straight about introverts and extroverts

5 January 2018

Of all the psychological concepts that have made it into modern culture, one of the most popular is that of ‘introverts and extroverts’. Yet there are also few that have been more misunderstood, and many myths still persist about this tricky personality trait. Popularised by psychoanalyst Carl Jung in the early Twentieth Century, the concept […]

Handling pressure and stress at work

14 January 2016

“Very few tigers are found prowling around the floors of a law firm,” says Rebecca Tipper in the second of Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co LLP’s blogs on the Mindapples programme. Developing our skills with Mindapples By: Rebecca Tipper 04 Dec 2015 Mindapples is a not-for-profit business which aims to teach us how our minds […]

Mindapples Wellbeing, Resilience & Performance

8 January 2016

We’re delighted to be working with Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co LLP. Here’s what their Peter Bond wrote in a blog about the launch: “You often hear about mental health in the news but it’s all too often linked to a negative story. Mental health tends to have connotations of illness, rather than have the […]

Mindapples training successful in independent trial

20 July 2015

A study published today by the University of York shows that Mindapples training programmes increased participants’ ability to cope with stress, including three months after the programme was complete. This is the first controlled trial of Mindapples’ flagship training programme, Your Mind: A User’s Guide, and is a great endorsement for our unique approach to mental health […]

Does your mind mean business?

11 May 2015

With perfect timing for the start of Mental Health Awareness Week, the RSA have today released the highlights of my recent talk for them about psychology, mental health and work. The talk was the public launch event for A Mind for Business and gave me a chance to outline some of my arguments for why I […]

Money can buy you happiness, new research reveals

1 April 2015

Research published today has revealed that money is much more useful for making people happy than was previously thought. Despite the popularity of books like The Spirit Level and Happiness, and a large body of recent studies across the developing world suggesting that economic performance does not in fact correlate with wellbeing or life satisfaction, new research […]

Why I wrote A Mind for Business

23 February 2015

As many readers will know, my book, A Mind for Business, is out now published by Pearson, and I wanted to give a little background as to why I wrote it, and how it relates to our work here at Mindapples. That’s because, in addition to the obvious commercial reasons for writing it, this book […]

Announcing A Mind for Business

29 January 2015

Dear friends of Mindapples, I’m very excited to announce the impending arrival of our new book, A Mind for Business, to be published in February 2015 by Pearson. The book has been two years in development and is based on our successful training programmes which are now used by some of the biggest names in global business such […]