Five For Your Hive
Mathieu Beth is the co-founder and educator at Gosh! Kids. Every other week, he writes and sends out an email that centers around 5 insights, stories or ideas that could help you at life. You can subscribe to it here:
Five For Your Hive: Taking My Sentence, Philosophically
24 April, 2025 Read online Taking My Sentence, Philosophically In 1979, the playwright and poet Václav Havel was asleep in bed when the state police barged into his home and arrested him. He was not surprised—Havel was a prominent member of the Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted, a human rights movement that brought to light cases of people unfairly persecuted for speaking against the dictatorship. Overnight, he became a political enemy of the state. His books and plays were banned...
Five For Your Hive: The Central Question
11 April, 2025 Read online The Central Question In Actors on Actors, Anne Hathaway led an intimate interview with fellow actor Jeremy Strong, the man who played Kendall Roy in the HBO hit series, Succession. For his role, Strong won a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. But earlier in his career, despite working so hard for almost his entire life—acting in community theatre, performing in student productions,...
The One Thing More Powerful Than Fear
28 March, 2025 Read online It was on this day, three years ago, that I did something crazy. I would never say it was an easy decision, nor was it always smooth sailing. Call it what you want—faith, impulsiveness, recklessness—I’m glad I took that step despite what was at stake. In 2022, I uprooted my entire family from Singapore and relocated to Fukuoka City, Japan. I quit my day job, shelved Gosh! Kids, and, along with Gladys, carried our six-month-old into a country rampant with...
Five For Your Hive: A Healthy Relationship
13 March, 2025 Read online A Healthy Relationship Before his book went on to sell 8 million copies, before it was translated into 60 languages globally, before cementing its position as one of Amazon’s top twenty most-read books for 88 weeks straight, Morgan Housel was rejected by every publisher in the US, except one. In September 2020, Harriman House released The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness. Since then, it has been regarded as “one of the best and...
This Is How You Turn Your Dreams Into Reality
17 Feb, 2025 Read online This Is How You Turn Your Dreams Into Reality Five years ago, I stopped setting goals. Unconventional, yes, and rather antithetical—especially now, when most people are almost three months into realising their goals. But it’s true. I don’t set goals anymore. In fact, I’ve gone as far as to remove the word from my life, and to refrain from using it in any professional or personal conversation. I’m not trying to lose a certain amount of weight. I’m not trying to hit a...
Five For Your Hive: Prisoners of Our Subjective Experiences
6 Feb, 2025 Read online Prisoners of Our Subjective Experiences In the early twentieth century, the German biologist Jakob von Uexküll was considered one of the pioneers of behavioural ecology, a study of how animal behaviours evolve in relation to their living environment. In 1909, he coined two German terms: Umwelt and Umgebung. Umwelt is an animal’s subjective experience of the world based on its sensory and cognitive capacities. Umgebung, on the other hand, is the objective world an...
Five For Your Hive: The Three Realms
21 January, 2025 Read online The Three Realms In the 50s, the psychologist and Harvard professor Erik Erikson, known for coining the term identity crisis, published Childhood and Society and Identity and the Life Cycle, exploring the importance of balancing the various life domains for psychological well-being. “The richest and fullest lives,” Erikson once said, “attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love, and play.” To focus solely on one while neglecting the others...
Make This Your Resolution For Life
Jan 6, 2025 Read online Make This Your Resolution For Life Even as a child living in poverty, Lincoln dreamed big. He couldn’t afford to go to school, except sporadically, a chance once in a while. But his nose was always in a book. It was said that when he got a copy of the Bible or Aesop's Fables, he was so excited he couldn't sleep. “There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away,” the poet Emily Dickinson once said. Though he would never travel to Europe, he always spoke of it as...
The Only Path I Know To True Joy
December 20, 2024 Read online Honesty is a virtue. Patience is a virtue. So is wisdom. Courage. Temperance. Justice. Plato called them the four cardinal virtues for ethical living For sure, they're needed. The more humanity embodies them, the further we progress as a species. But what about gratitude? It's more complex than you think, and one of those that spell ironic, like Black Friday and Thanksgiving. Ironic because, as we spend hours waiting in line, shoving strangers, and spending money...
Mathieu Beth is the co-founder and educator at Gosh! Kids. Every other week, he writes and sends out an email that centers around 5 insights, stories or ideas that could help you at life. You can subscribe to it here: