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Because Everything Depends Upon You, and Nothing Does…

Brian Harris — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

If you’ve spent more than three minutes in theological circles you will have come across the free will/ predestination debate. An astonishing number of theological, philosophical and practical issues come back to it. Am I the author of my own destiny, or a pawn in a wider plan? The pawn option doesn’t need to be […]

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When Heroes Fail: Thoughts on Philip Yancey and other Mortals…

Brian Harris — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

I wasn’t going to write this post. There has been more than enough publicity given to Christian author extraordinaire Philip Yancey’s announcement of his 8 year affair with a married woman, and other than saying “It’s not the first time something like this has happened, and it is highly improbable that it will be the […]

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Refresh: Conscious Incompetence – On Knowing What We Don’t Know

Brian Harris — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:00:00 +0000

It’s strange to think of humility as one of the markers of future success, but it is. Without it, we don’t realise how much we still have to learn, and we miss cues which could set us on a better path. I enjoyed re-reading this post from April 2022, and hope you do as well. […]

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Refresh: 10 Reasons why Silence is Golden

Brian Harris — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:00:00 +0000

I enjoyed rereading todays refresh post. Number 5, “Silence releases us from the oppressive bondage of always having to have the last word” resonates with me, and I think it has something to say to us during challenging times. It’s a short post. Hope you enjoy it. Refresh: 10 Reasons why Silence is Golden We […]

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Why we need confident humility and humble confidence

Brian Harris — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:00:00 +0000

It seems counter-intuitive to say we need confident humility or humble confidence, but bear with me. It’s not as absurd as it may sound, and there is more than enough research to confirm that the best leaders are confident and inspire confidence when they are also personally humble. Why are both needed, and does it […]

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Refresh: Thinking about Fixed and Growth Mindsets

Brian Harris — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000

Much has been written on growth and fixed mindsets. I like this post because it affirms the value of a growth mindset, while adding some important qualifiers that are sometimes overlooked. It was first published on the blog in May 2022. Thinking about Fixed and Growth Mindsets While Carol Dweck’s 2007 book Mindset is no […]

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Making Success a Pattern, not a Moment: 8 Qualities to Cultivate

Brian Harris — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 22:00:00 +0000

You’ve probably had those moments when you breath a sigh of both relief and satisfaction. It’s come off. Something you wanted has worked out, and you are really pleased. Perhaps your response is, “Well, that was lucky. Hope it happens again.” Now once in a while success is like winning the lottery, and things come […]

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Conscious incompetence: On knowing what we don’t know…

Brian Harris — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000

It was only a few sentences in a podcast I recently listened to, but it set me thinking. The speaker suggested there are four stages in the journey towards competence: Unconscious incompetence Conscious incompetence Conscious competence Unconscious competence An example may help to ground this. Let’s say you don’t know how to drive a car. […]

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Arguing for the sake of heaven: Why we need curious conversations…

Brian Harris — Fri, 14 May 2021 22:00:00 +0000

I wonder if you, like me, are finding the polarising conversations taking place in the public square shrill, tiresome and destructive. We have lost the art of disagreeing with one another politely or constructively, and have forgotten than ad hominem attacks (attacks directed against a person rather than the position they hold) have traditionally been […]

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Is narcissism becoming a virtue – or whatever happened to humility?

Brian Harris — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:00:03 +0000

Yesterday I led a professional development day for staff at Grace Christian School, in Bunbury. One of the topics we explored was the rise of narcissism, and ways Christian schools can help provide a corrective for it. Of course there might be some readers who wonder if a corrective is necessary. After all, pendulum’s tend […]

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