Imagine thirty thousand menacing obstacles in your path to success. You’re dehydrated. Hungry as hell. And wobbling like a drunk on too much Guinness. Your eyes hurt, your head throbs and your will is all but broken. You’re not even sure you want to go on. You feel like Frodo. As in the character Frodo, [...]
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I noticed something very unusual when I went for my 7 km walk. I noticed that as I passed the liquor store, my brain would start to wander. And it wasn’t the liquor. It was just the point in my walk. You see I’d pass the liquor store at about 40 minutes into my walk. [...]
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Resistance loves a loner. Because loners have limited energy. They start out on a project, all excited about what’s about to unfold. Then, for some reason or the other, they lose their way. And that’s when resistance gangs up on the loner big time. It’s not much of a fight. The loner is already exhausted. [...]
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We have the curse of knowledge. We all do. We know what we know, and we know it so well, that we assume that everyone else knows it just as we do. So for instance, I understand a concept like ‘uniqueness’ and it’s almost second nature for me, so it’s normal for me to assume [...]
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There are two ways to learn something You learn it. OR you unlearn and then learn. As you’d have worked out, the second way is a lot harder. To learn means to have little or no fear To unlearn means to erase the fear, and then put in confidence. This requires twice the effort and [...]
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I remember sitting in a queue at JFK airport in New York waiting to take off As I sat in the plane, I could see our plane stuck behind about six or eight other planes. They were all waiting to take off. And as we waited the weather conditions changed, causing the planes to keep [...]
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Do you remember what you’ve learned? Or are you a Sponge Bob? Soak a sponge with water. It will absorb all the water willingly. And as you pick it up, the soaked sponge will drip. A good chunk of the water will drippity-drip all over you if you’re not careful. But let’s say you are [...]
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Two people There are two kinds of people on the planet. Those who make excuses. And those who don’t. The ones who make excuses don’t start that way No one is ‘born talented’ at making excuses. But over the years they learn to get out of things. They learn how to blame the weather, their [...]
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Are too! Are not! Are too! Are not! Are too! You’ve played this game as a child. And no matter which side you were on, you simply stuck to your position, without budging an inch. So how do you win the battle of perception? You do what Grizz Wylie does. Grizz, a well-known coach for [...]
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Imagine I asked you a question. A simple question where you could choose the answer. And if you chose the right answer, you’d end up with about $20,000 more per annum (theoretically, of course) Imagine that. You’d have twenty thousand more buckeroos in the bank. But instead–strangely–you’ll choose to forfeit the $20,000. How could this [...]
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I remember sitting in a queue at JFK airport in New York waiting to take off. As I sat in the plane, I could see our plane stuck behind about six or eight other planes. They were all waiting to take off. And as we waited the weather conditions changed, causing the planes to keep [...]
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Have you ever wondered how you acquire skills? Have you ever wondered how some people seem to learn better than others? Well, so did a researcher Pascual-Leone. Way back in the early 1990s, he did a series of experiments that taught us how we learn skills. And Pascual-Leone didn’t just theorise. Instead he used high [...]
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