Lee Hulbert-Williams

Psychology is weird. Some of the most important and useful insights involve things that nobody can observe — things that go on in your head — events that only you witness. And yet our most developed theories were developed to predict observable behaviour, not hidden thoughts and feelings.

I live this conundrum on a daily basis.

As a coaching psychologist (and as a human being) my main psychological interest is in self-development through regulating our own thoughts and behaviours. Learning to meditate changed my life. Of course, what it mostly changed was how I deal with my own thoughts and bodily sensations. As an Associate Professor of Psychological Measurement and Statistics, I spend large parts of my life trying to figure out how we can accurately measure, understand, and teach such self-development processes.

Until we have the sort of brain scanners only found in sci-fi, our best bet is psychometric measurement.

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How to spend less money

There are many ways to get better at money management, though you wouldn’t know it from reading personal development blogs. They pretty much all recommend you plan out a budget…

May 29, 2017

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The fear of missing out

Right now, at this very moment, in your nearest town or city there are people having fun. No matter whether it is late afternoon or early morning, somebody somewhere is…

January 23, 2016

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There are no souls

My aunt died yesterday. Well, in fact she was my second cousin, once removed, but my mother’s family is very close and so, throughout my childhood, she and her family…

December 28, 2015

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How to put up with the little annoyances to get what you really want in life

June 26, 2014 /

Western societies have a huge problem when it comes to living a meaningful life. In the last fifty years we’ve seen two huge shifts further towards individualism, first with the swinging sixties, and then again with the have-it-all greed-is-good eighties. If you ask all but the very old, most folk today will say that living a good life means being…

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Those hippie words we use

May 29, 2014 /

I was on holiday last week so I gave myself permission to write something a bit different; to discuss a topic that’s close to my heart though it makes a lot of folk squirm. Let’s talk about spirituality. I meditate regularly and have done so for nearly two decades. I have attended Buddhist events. I have read English translations of…

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