Multi-millionaire Felix Dennis has a great line about feeling like he’s nothing more than ‘a miserable worm on an insignificant planet, circling an enormous universe’. He’s trying to say that we’re all pretty small fry, really, whether we’re unemployed labourers, busy salaried professionals or wealthy entrepreneurs like him. In the grand scheme of things, every one of us isn’t much more than a worm, he says, and we should never forget that, no matter how marvellous we might be tempted to think we are, looking back over our grand careers or serial money-making schemes.Actually, it’s worse than that. Most of us have heard of The Big Bang theory. It’s a picture of how the universe came about, and involves imagining that everything started from a small dot, billions of years ago. So, the theory goes that there was a huge burst of energy and when that started to cool, it turned into stars, and those stars gathered into galaxies. Some of the matter coalesced into planets, and, after an unimaginable long time, life happened to start on this one, were we are now. If you believe that, then you must be feeling a little humble already. You look up into […]

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