Australia’s most respected dealmaker sits down for an exclusive masterclass — the rules they never teach in business school, and why ignoring them will cost you everything.

My daughter had been planning this day for the better part of a year. The pony bug had arrived in our household the way pony bugs tend to — quietly, then all at once — but this one came with a uniquely, gloriously specific fixation: she wanted to ride an Icelandic horse. Not just any horse. An “Icelandic” horse.

The sign at the entrance to the Roman Baths in Bath asks visitors to refrain from touching the water.

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Welcome to dichotomous thinking — the cheerful little tyrant living rent-free in your head, sorting the world into Good and Bad, Success and Failure, Friend and Foe, with the brisk certainty of a customs officer at three in the morning.

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