Richard Hogan: How thinking differently can make you more confident, and help you thrive

"You were plucked from the obscurity of darkness into this incredible light, this gift, this life. And what do we do with the gift, this almost zero chance of life? We often allow others to tarnish it."

Richard Hogan: . Photograph Moya Nolan

Did you know that the chances of you being you are roughly, 400 quadrillion to the power of 150,000? That's some odds. You're being here is miraculous. You are precious. So, what do you do with that miracle? Throw it away? Give it to someone random? Allow someone you don’t really know or, for that matter, like to tarnish it? 

Or, do you hold onto it, and protect it, and worship it? Well, I think we know what you should do, but what we should do and what we actually do can often be two very different things.