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: Seeking Meaning In The Catastrophe Of Circumstances
26 Jan, 2026 Read online Seeking Meaning In The Catastrophe Of Circumstances There’s a famous story in the Bible about a man named Job — a prosperous, just, and kind-hearted man of God. Job’s life was turned upside down when he was suddenly struck with misfortune. All his children died. He was infected with disease. Everything he owned — property, money, livestock — had been destroyed. Like any man who has found himself in such circumstances, Job questioned God. Why me? What did I do to...
Fix Your Relationship With This Thing In 2026 (& All The Years Beyond)
29 Dec, 2025 Read online On top of my work at Gosh! Kids, I’m a part-time teacher at a local university. The core of this role is to deliver curriculum to undergraduates from various faculties. A smaller, lesser-known aspect — but no less important — is to read and grade assignments. That being said, I don’t particularly enjoy this part. And the reason is not because I have to read through 40 submissions, each at least 30 pages long. No, it’s because every word was, in fact, not written by...
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,...
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: