Nicholas Bate –

1. Know when enough is enough. Of anything: salted caramel and chocolate tart, push-ups and ‘success’.

2. Sometimes you can ignore the views of other people.

3. Nobody can take your learning away from you. Read, read, read.

4. Walking does actually solve pretty well anything from the immediate worry to a long-term health issue. Constant movement is more important than occasional exercise.

5. Nothing lives for long (healthily) in a cubicle.  There is an escape plan. 

6. Reptile brain is awesome in emergencies. Human brain understands long-term consequences and interdependencies, displays emotional intelligence and when finally tuned can access secrets of the universe. Use it at all times except emergencies. Tip: most of life is not an emergency.

7. Bizarrely, doing something well can stop us hating it. Useful for the day job.