WORLDVIEW: The hidden benefits of starting afresh

By Alec Hogg

Experience teaches us much good can come from starting afresh. Whether it's changing a job, a city, even a country, if properly approached a change is more rejuvenating than any holiday. And such lifestyle adjustments don't always have to be in a forward direction. At least not immediately.

Quite a few times in my career a conscious step backwards created a platform for a leapfrog. Like when, in my 20s, the magazine I was editing closed down. The safe move was back into newspapers. Instead, indignation at losing my job this way became the spark for self-employment.

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