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:
The Best Gift You Can Gift Yourself (& Others)
6 Dec, 2025 Read online One thing that doesn’t get enough appreciation is how great it is to be alive at this time of the year. We sit around the dinner table with our hands joined, expressing heartfelt gratitude for all the good in our lives — the health, the family, the career. Then, at the strike of midnight, Black Friday presents us an opportunity to spend that hard-earned money on stuff we'd always wanted for half the price. If you’re an employee, this is probably the best time to wind...
This Is A Reminder To Do This "Simple" Thing
15 Nov, 2025 Read online Today is Gladys’ birthday. If you don’t know who she is, Gladys is the co-founder and head-educator of our company, Gosh! Kids. She's also my wife. I’m not great at math but, last I counted, she turns 35. Statistically, life expectancy is around what, 75, 80 years? That puts her close to the halfway mark. Numbers aside, I think there is nothing inherently special about the day we were born. At the same time, I also think there can be something powerful in these...
Five For Your Hive: Running To Stay In Place
13 Nov, 2025 Read online Running To Stay In Place For decades, the conventional wisdom around evolution was that the longer a species had been around, the more likely it was going to be around. For example, a young species of 10 years might be assumed to have a 10 percent chance of extinction, compared with a 0.01 percent chance for a species that had existed for 10,000 years. But when evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen tried to prove this theory, he could not. Instead, the data suggested...
Five For Your Hive: Top/Low-level Goal
9 Oct, 2025 Read online Be Tenacious At The Right Level of Your Goal Hierarchy After a decade of research uncovering the drivers of success and achievement, the psychologist Angela Duckworth published her findings in Grit: Why Passion And Resilience Are The Secrets To Success. It went on to become a worldwide best-seller, sparking local and international interest in her study of “grit” and its linkage to high achievement. “Grit,” as she described, is a human trait evident in highly successful...
This Thing Has Cost Me So Much
25 Sep, 2025 Read online I have this thing that bothers me. It bothers me so much that it wears me down to the bone, like a drug slowly poisoning me from the inside out. And after all these years, living with it day after day, it has cost me so, so much. What I’m talking about is my anxiety. Not just in one particular thing, but in almost everything. I often get nervous when I’m abroad for work. Not because I have to care for a toddler while running a camp for thirty kids and parents in a...
Five For Your Hive: This Is Water
4th Sep, 2025 Read online This Is Water In 2005, David Foster Wallace opened his commencement speech at Kenyon College with a parable about two young fish. While swimming, the pair encounters an older fish going in the other direction. He nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” The two young fish continue swimming, and eventually one of them looks at the other and asks, “What the hell is water?” Failing to notice the “truths hidden in plain sight,” Wallace explains, is like...
Five For Your Hive: The Intersection Between Pleasure And Meaning
12 August, 2025 Read online The Intersection Between Pleasure And Meaning In his bestselling book, Happier, Harvard psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar wrote about the arrival fallacy—a mistaken belief that achieving or “arriving” at a particular goal or desired destination—a dream job, reaching a financial milestone, completing a big project—will bring you lasting happiness, and thus make you feel complete or permanently satisfied. This happens, Ben-Shahar explained, because humans quickly adjust to...
It Means Nothing Until It Costs You Something
30 July, 2025 Read online It Means Nothing Until It Costs You Something It was probably a passing comment that came across as ambitious and exciting, so I did not put much thought into it. But then I kept hearing it. From friends. From family. From fellow educators and business owners in the same industry. Rebrand your programmes, they’d said, to focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—core academics most parents in this part of the world want their kids to perfect—because,...
Five For Your Hive: The Marker And Predictor
3 July, 2025 Read online The Marker and Predictor In her twenty years listening to thousands of stories from people struggling with addiction and mental illness, the psychiatrist Dr Anna Lembke began to notice a pattern: those who continuously portray themselves as victims often remain addicted or mentally unwell. Oh, my friends introduced me to drugs, so it’s not my fault I can’t get off it now. Oh, when I was a kid my dad smoked around me all the time, so I can’t help but smoke too. Oh, my...
Leadership Principles That Made My Life Better
22 May, 2025 Read online I’m not someone who insists things must be done the “right” way. I value tradition and authenticity. I appreciate the efforts to preserve the old-school. I empathise with those who reject shortcuts, changes, or modernity to preserve the spirit of the craft. But I draw the line at being a purist. One thing I would say, however, is that I live by principle. That is to say, I have a particular set of values and philosophies that govern how I should think, how I should...
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: