Psychotactics

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, in the final [...]

So you’re going/have gone on a vacation, aren’t you? Well, the weekend will come up, and you’ll have some sort of break–your to-do list non-withstanding.
But you won’t take a break. No you won’t. You’ll do something silly. Like filling it up with stuff.

How about filling it with idleness instead?
Yeah, idleness. As in doing nothing. Yes, [...]

It’s easy to blame your parents for your lack of great genes.
It’s just as easy to praise your parents for their superb genes.
But while genes may be a handed down trait, talent is not.
And to understand talent you have to first understand genes.
Genes are sequences of DNA letters that when activated by the cell makes [...]

Imagine you just had a baby. And that baby demanded your attention. At 3am. At 6am. At 9am. What are you going to do? Are you simply going to turn back the clock? Or tend to the baby?

If you speak to parents of newborns they are never ever prepared for the onslaught of time.
It’s [...]

Have you ever considered how some people say they learn quicker by reading than audio?
Have you ever considered Stevie’s plight?
Ah, but that’s not the question
The question is: can Stevie learn faster than you?
Well, I wish it were a pat answer, but it’s not. It depends on various factors including how active your brain is, aging [...]

Imagine if someone told you that you needed 10,000 hours to learn to drive a car.
No? What about 5000 hours then? Would that be suitable?
How about 3000 hours? Or 1000? Or 500? Ok, how about 60 hours?
A very average person with a reasonable fear of cars can learn to drive in about 60 hours.
Or can [...]

Speeding up your articles writing: Is that really possible?
Do you want to write articles and write them faster?
Do you want to write outstanding articles and write them faster?
Do you want to avoid slogging over one darned article for three hours?
Let’s answer that question by looking at piano lessons.
If you started piano lessons two and a [...]

Most people make a mistake with promoting a product or service. When they promote a product/service, they expect sales. And rightly so. But you’re missing out on the most important aspect of all: that people don’t buy when you want to sell. And this is why most of us go bananas in sales and marketing. [...]

When we’re about to start a project, we sit down and we plan.
We plan about the resources we have, the time needed for implementation, and yada, yada. What we don’t plan for is someone to watch over us.
So who is this someone who watches over us?
Is it someone who’s technically qualified? Is it someone who’s [...]

I wasn’t a big fan of algebra in high school
I liked geography. I liked history. I even liked languages. You could safely say I liked everything but maths.
So while I’d score high marks in almost all subjects, my maths score barely hobbled beyond 50 or 65%.
And it was no great concern to me, because I [...]

When I first started doing seminars in the year 2001, I’d start off talking. And flipping slides. And then talking some more. And then two days or three days would pass. Then I’d hand out the feedback forms.
And invariably someone would be upset.
They’d think the music was too loud. They’d wonder why there was music [...]

The cartoons before the encouragement (notice, no colour). And then, along came an audience.
I was lousy at marketing.
Well, let’s put it this way: I was (and still am) an outstanding cartoonist.
And marketing was nowhere close to being my forte.
I’d write, but I’d agonise over it.
The only thing that kept me going was the [...]