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I'm Larry G. Maguire, writer and artist. I write short stories and thought provoking articles about people and life. Check out my stuff here or get over to larrygmaguire.com to more stuff or find out more about my books and other material.

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212 Inauthentic Leadership & The Centrality of The Entrepreneurial Image

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213 New Capitalism & The Conflict of Interests

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Back From The Dead

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You’re a fool no matter what. The moment you feel inflated by the apparent self-confidence or self-depreciation that possess you, you…

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Skirting the edges, most of us blindly play the game never finding the truth of the matter, if indeed, there is one.

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The first of multi-part essay series into the phenomenon of happiness & unhappiness and the dichotomous nature of the human condition.

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Everyone seems to want the big win, fame, if only for 15 mins. But maybe the lure of fame and fortune is a trap. Maybe boring old ordinary…

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It’s coming. We can’t escape it. Best maybe to talk about it now and address the elephant everyone wished wasn’t in the room

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We are on the edge of the world — on the edge of something.

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I have come to the tentative conclusion, as I sit here this evening in my quiet illusion, that the more real I am to myself, the more…

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For many, scepticism has undesirable connotations. To be a sceptic is to be negatively focused, unsupportive and a non-team player. But…

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I've changed my mind. In fact, it has been changing for some time, it's only recently I have caught up. I'm talking about my relationship with daily work and how I categorise it. I have called myself a businessman in the recent and distant past, but I never really believed it. I thought I was, […]

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Welcome to part three of our exploration into the nature of happiness. In this article, we turn our attention to the psychology of happiness and findings by professor Peter Warr at the University of Sheffield. In his 2019 book of the same name, Warr draws on thousands of happiness and wellbeing studies to suggest nine primary environmental factors that impact your happiness. As we will see, many parallels can be drawn from the forthcoming with, for example...

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As I contemplated dropping my van to the mechanic this morning, I considered how I might get back home as fast as possible. I could get the missus to follow me in the family car. I'd save time, get more work done, achieve more than I would if I walked. Really? To what end? It's […]

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The Focusing Illusion bias and how it impacts our judgement of perceived life happiness and wellbeing. In part two of our continued exploration into the nature and substance of happiness, we explore what cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman called The Focusing Illusion. The Focusing Illusion suggests that these things we think and believe are so important […]

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As I carry on my daily work, my mind is focused. But in the moments of reduced attention to the task, in recent weeks, it wanders to thoughts of my ultimate demise. I think of me, my parents, my wife and children, all one day gone. Today I thought of a business friend who lost […]

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You're a fool no matter what. The moment you feel inflated by the apparent self-confidence or self-depreciation that possess you, you should know it to be true. All ambition, all notions of grandeur and importance, your status in the world, all feelings of worthlessness and objectification by others, the entire form and structure of your […]

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