Olive oil Aubergines Onions Garlic, Cinnamon, Oregano, Minced lamb, Tomato purée, Parsley And red wine. Writing an article is like making a yummy dish called moussaka And making the moussaka takes a bit of work. The first port of call is of course, the ingredients. You have to make that all important trip to the [...]
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Did you eat something today? Drank some sort of drink? Well, there’s a good chance you’ve been exposed to the multi-billion dollar flavour industry. Almost all the products we eat or drink have these flavours and companies spend massive amounts of money researching to make sure the get the right flavour for their product. [...]
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Have you ever seen two pianists play the same music? It’s the very same score, the very same piano, but one seems to play it better than the other. Not just a little better, but a lot better. So what makes one person’s playing so different from the other? It’s inborn talent. That’s what most [...]
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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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When I was in school, I’d often do algebra while listening to music playing in the background. And at that point, I was scoring almost perfect scores on my algebra tests and exams. In effect, I was multitasking. So then, is multitasking good for you? Well, it depends… When most of us talk about multitasking, [...]
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There are two ways to eat a cake. You can eat it in small pieces. Or gobble the whole thing down. Most of us would like to gobble, whether it comes to cake or learning And like cake, learning needs to be tackled in small portions. Small portions not only help you learn, but help [...]
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Imagine you had thirty-three seconds to pick up a glass of water, take it across the room, and throw the water down the sink. Could you do it? Sure. And you wouldn’t need more than ten seconds to do the task, especially if the sink isn’t very far away. Now give that very same task [...]
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You know how people say: When I have time, I’m going to write a book. People make statements like that all the time. As if one magical block of time is going to show up one day. And so, they wait for this mystical moment. And as you’d expect, it never shows up. So they [...]
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If you were to look at Picasso’s work, you could spot it anywhere. If you were to listen to Sting’s music, you’d know it was Sting. If you were to read Dan Brown’s book, you’d know it was Dan. So how come these folks have a style, and you don’t? You know you don’t have [...]
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If you go to any school, in any country, you’ll find one thing consistently That if you ask the kids in the class if they can draw, then almost 100% of the kids put their hands up. What’s also interesting is that all the kids in the class are equally good (or equally bad, as [...]
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My niece Keira was just two when I started teaching her the little Spanish I knew. And one of the words I taught her was ‘zapatos’ (pron: sah-pah-tohs). Of course, Keira has a mind of her own. I kept saying ‘zapatos’, and Keira kept insisting they were ‘shoes’. After a while I gave up, but [...]
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Ronald was a good friend of mine. And Anita was his girlfriend. Well, not any longer. She was now his ex-girlfriend. They’d split up. And I got asked for my feedback: “So, what did you think of her, anyway?” Well, I told him what I thought about her. Did you ever get the feeling of [...]
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