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Is twenty-eight too early to consign yourself to the scrap-heap?

I once went on a Management Bullshit Course in which the speaker said that as we get older we find it harder to change our personality traits.  The point that stuck in my mind was the cut-off point he specified: twenty-eight.  Up until the age of twenty-eight, he said, we can still change who we are.  We can change those things about ourselves that annoy us.  After that, we’re screwed.  We’re stuck as we are. Read the rest of this entry »

In August 2008, after a week’s holiday followed by a huge stag weekend I was shocked and embarrassed to find myself weighing in at a colossal 18st 13lbs, or 120.5kg to be precise (per the weighing machine in Boots).  As an aside it’s worth noting that I am, per the same Boots weighing machine, 6ft 4inches tall.  I’m not making excuses or anything; I just didn’t want you to think I was 5 foot six inches tall and almost as wide.

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