Walt Whitman got it right, we are not one thing or another we are one thing AND another. I am a psychologist - I love the subject and have been intrigued by it all my life. I am a musician and a writer. I could not imagine stopping either and I have some success with both. And I am inveterate explorer give or take a dodgy knee. I am also a father, partner, hopefully a good friend. And a teacher and a therapist. I am an OK yachtsman, a clumsy skier and a half-qualified pilot. ( I can do take-offs but not landings). All of these things inform and shape and inspire the others. I believe a full life is not one about achieving greater and greater success - whatever that may be but is about 'inhabiting' yourself as much as possible and in that you may become truly great. We are paradoxical and serendipity may be the alchemy of our futures.