Why can’t people just go about their lives in peace?
How do you achieve peace and success in a society where everyone is out to get you?
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QWAN - Quality Without A Name
The many and varied thoughts of Martyn Foster
Welcome to QWAN - Quality Without A Name. This is the blog of writer Martyn Foster who embodies the spirit of QWAN through producing high quality pieces of writing without being a household name.
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Martyn Foster
- Apr 28
- 5 min
What makes you feel alive?
Why not much in life excites me anymore and why this is problematic.
Martyn Foster
- Mar 31
- 4 min
The medicalisation of misery
Life at the bottom: How what used to be an existential crisis is now medical intervention.
Martyn Foster
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
Addressing the anxious elephant in the room
Because the longer anxiety is ignored the bigger it gets.
Martyn Foster
- Jul 22, 2022
- 4 min
The gift and curse of intelligence
With superior processing power and cognitive ability comes great responsibility and isolation.
Martyn Foster
- Jul 15, 2022
- 4 min
Overwhelmed and Exhausted
Why we aren’t designed to care about so many things.
Martyn Foster
- Jun 17, 2022
- 3 min
I say I love you, but do I show it?
The connection between our words and actions.
Martyn Foster
- Apr 29, 2022
- 4 min
Taking our masks off
Keeping up appearances and the price we pay.
Martyn Foster
- Mar 25, 2022
- 5 min
Until death do us part?
Marriage, is it still an ultimate ideal?
Martyn Foster
- Mar 11, 2022
- 3 min
Doing things for fun
Does everything need a goal or purpose?
Martyn Foster
- Feb 25, 2022
- 6 min
Is there a doctor here?
Why everyone believes they are a mental health expert now.
Martyn Foster
- Feb 18, 2022
- 4 min
The Age of Entitlement
The people who live permanently on “yes” street.
Martyn Foster
- Feb 11, 2022
- 5 min
You are enough vs You are more than you think
Two prominent yet competing modes of being and why ultimately one is superior to the other.
Martyn Foster
- Feb 4, 2022
- 4 min
What is waking you up at 3am? (Or keeping you awake at this time)
It’s things counting sheep aren’t going to fix.
Martyn Foster
- Jan 28, 2022
- 5 min
Good Grief!
To grieve or not to grieve, that is the question.
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