Self-belief isn't something you either have or don't. That’s the reassuring truth. All those people who seem to be super confident likely weren’t born that way. Self-belief is built through evidence. Every time you do something hard, something that you didn’t think you could achieve, you give yourself proof that you're capable of more than you thought. For example, consider someone who's convinced they could never run. That single belief (“I’m not a runner”) doesn't just live

The last film I watched in 2025 was Edgar Wright’s remake of The Running Man. The way I tend to watch films now is in about 20/30-minute chunks, so when I sat down to watch it with my breakfast one Saturday, I expected to finish my beans on toast, drink my coffee, then go about my day. But for the first time, probably in years, I watched a film the whole way through, excluding when I’m in the cinema and British politeness forbids me from leaving. I bloody loved it! Dystopian