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: 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...
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...
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: