Lessons from inanimate objects
Meet Melman: the worrying, tentative, endlessly beeping family car that became a daily lesson in the power of how we frame things.
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Leaping and falling
What one artist’s daring leap can teach us about risk, resilience, and why we never really take the big jumps alone.
Take another shot
From family albums, to polaroids, to digital libraries… The humble camera has a surprising amount to teach us about life.
That one letter
Pressure, as it turns out, doesn’t disciminate by experience or seniority. Whether you're arguing before the highest court in the land or walking into a meeting with people you're sure know more than you, the internal experience is remarkably the same.
One chess move at a time
We're not short on options in modern life. If anything, we're sort of drowning in information. What we’re struggling with, more often than not, is where to begin...
More to the picture
A photo, a group chat, and a whole lot of wrong assumptions. We're back with another Ted Take to explore the impact of embarrassment, and why one frame can never tell us the whole story.
Leaving with a smile
At 3:33am on September 9 in NYC, Carlos Alcaraz lost one of the great matches of his career. Here's what his giant grin can teach us all about 'winning' versus what it means to be alive.
Phone a friend
Long before Google, before online walkthroughs, before you could ask a screen anything at 2am, there was a phone number.
Blisters before bliss
From Greek myths to campfire tales, from woven tapestries to Hollywood blockbusters, storytelling is one of the oldest and most celebrated traditions in the history of humankind. And threaded through much of it is a recurring shape.
The parade comes anyway
Twenty years ago, if you visited Bryne, a small town on the west coast of Norway, you’d find an indoor football pitch that sat unlocked most weekends. A group of local kids would let themselves in, split into two makeshift sides, and play football for hours...
Small country, big hearts
A few weeks ago, we met Vozinha, the 40-year-old goalkeeper from a tiny island nation who kept Spain at bay on his World Cup debut. Over this last week, the world got to experience the next plot twist in this extraordinary story.
Humble and hungry
We've reached the middle of the year, and for those of us in Australia, EOFY seems to feel like an additional full stop. One chapter closing and another about to begin. If any of this comes with a sense of shoulda-woulda-coulda, you’re in good company.
It is what it is
It has become one of those phrases that's almost a little throwaway through sheer repetition. We say it at work when an opportunity falls through. We say it at home when plans collapse. It slips out as a reflex for many of us, a verbal shrug, if you will...
A dream worth the wait
This week, a 40-year-old goalkeeper became the most talked-about man in world football. Meet Josimar José Évora Dias, though almost nobody calls him that.
The greatest victory
Two Brazilians, both centre-backs, bound by something that goes well beyond football... It all begins with a penalty miss in Qatar, and continues with a hug in Budapest.
Back to the blueprint
This week our adventures took us to Adelaide... and to a new a-ha about play, and its role in every hero's journey.
Dance to your own beat
It's England, 1934, and a young girl by the name of Gillian - or 'wriggle bottom,' as her teachers had taken to calling her - is struggling to focus at school. Her teachers are at their wits end, concerned a learning disorder may be at play.
We're curious about 'cringe'
Let's double-click on this idea of sincerity. Because what does cringe actually point to, beneath all the self-consciousness and social noise?
Stay in the sandpit
"It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through" Ira Glass Something a little serendipitous happened at Mojo HQ this week. Within the space of 24 - 48 hours, the same video arrived in
Ducks and Kangaroos
An email arrived in our inbox this week from a brilliant coach at Langwarrin Footy Club. Reading his words sent us back to our earliest memories of team culture through sport, the journey of figuring out who you are through play, and what it means to be part of something bigger than yourself.
The long way round
London has been the talk of the town this week amongst running enthusiasts, with Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha rewriting history with their record-breaking performances. But we’ve got a special marathon story of our own, one that unfolded on home soil in a small country town.
From wandering to wondering
Ten days in the void is certainly one way to find a worldly perspective. After splashdown, reflecting on what the Artemis II mission had meant, the crew had a simple but profound a-ha moment to share.
Meet the moment
Rory McIlroy made history at Augusta earlier this week, becoming the first European player to win all four major championships and claiming back-to-back Masters titles in the process. But there's another aspect to this story that really captured us this week.
Tiny steps, huge shifts
Life has a way of dealing the most brutal, challenging cards. And it’s often in these crucible moments - the ones that bring us to our knees - that our mindset becomes our greatest companion or our harshest critic.