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Why “Infotainment” Creates Binge-Consumption in Readers and Listeners:

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

What makes one presentation far superior than the next? What makes you want to binge-listen to some podcasts and just reject the others? What makes one book so readable while the other one is boring? It’s the concept of info-tainment. Where information is used to get attention, but entertainment is used to keep that attention. […]

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How Success Causes A Blind Spot (And Creates A Rip Van Winkle Effect)

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

Success is good. Focus is good. Until it’s bad. Incredible as it may seem, focus can cause a massive blindspot in our business. So what’s the option? Surely it can’t be distraction? Actually it’s a mix of both that’s required. Using the concept of “spinning plates”, you can avoid the blind spot of success and […]

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Next Blogs Article: The Psychological Difference between Blogs and Websites
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How To Avoid Boring Testimonials (And Get 1000-1500 Word Stories Instead)

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

We ask for testimonials and we get them, but are they any good? Or are they the usual sugary stuff that no one really reads. How do you get testimonials that are “journeys” and weigh in at 800-1000 words? Find out in this episode on “how to plan—and yes—get outstanding testimonials. Right click and ‘save […]

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Next Marketing Strategy Article: Three Incredibly Precise Steps To Get “Advance Testimonials” From Clients
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The Man In The Jungle Method

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Imagine it’s a hot day and you’re longing for some ice-cream I give it you. You’re about to lick it. But then it gets snatched away from you. You don’t need to be told what happens next, right? And that’s because your brain has already gotten the “reward”. Hundreds of milliseconds before you even licked […]

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Next Presentation Techniques Article: Why You Should Avoid Catering Your Presentation To A Specific Audience
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How To Smother Perfectionism With A Timer

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

You’ve told yourself you shouldn’t be a perfectionist. Yet time and time again we head back to getting things done—perfectly. And in the process we get nothing done. I get into that trap a lot, and the only way out of the trap is to use a combination of three methods: external deadlines, internal deadlines […]

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Next Learning Article: How To Get Expertise In A Lot Fewer Than 10,000 Hours
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Three Incredibly Precise Steps To Get “Advance Testimonials” From Clients

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

Most of us wait until a job is completed to ask for testimonials. Admittedly that’s a good time, but it’s also much harder to get a testimonial from a client at that stage. Then we have to get all needy when asking for the testimonial. There are three points when you can get testimonials, and […]

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Next Marketing Strategy Article: Why We Struggle To Write a Book: 3 Structural Reasons
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Why “Anti-Fragility” Breeds Success (And How Nature Focuses On It)

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

It’s easy to just want praise, but that’s not how nature works. Nature roots out the fragile and keep only that which is anti-fragile. So is anti-fragility just a factor of “resilience”? No it isn’t. There’s a big difference between being resilient and anti-fragile. And the key to anti-fragility is to be like a “hydra”. […]

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Next Psychological Marketing Article: What’s the Opposite of Success? It’s Not Failure.
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How to get a FREE 30-Page Excerpt of The Brain Audit (Without Even Needing To Fill A Form)

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Brain Audit Book Options: Why Clients Buy And Why They Don't

If you’ve always wondered what The Brain Audit was all about. Or if you’ve ever wondered what’s in this book that’s caused thousands of businesses to  ‘sell without selling‘, then here’s away to stop wondering. Because you can get a chunky 30 page excerpt of The Brain Audit. And it’s free. You’ll enjoy the cartoons. You’ll […]

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Next Internet marketing Article: Why Bad Testimonials Attract Bad Clients (And How To Avoid It)
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Can Walking Make You Smarter?

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Three Month Vacation Podcast

You know how folks are always talking about being a millionaire? Well, there’s a guaranteed way to become a millionaire It’s called walking. You have those two feet, and if you did 15,000 steps a day, you’d end up doing 5,475,000 steps a year (yes, that is indeed five million, four hundred and seventy five […]

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Next Human Nature Article: Why You Should Commit 30 Minutes To Daily Learning (Without Fail)
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Is “How-NOT-To” More Powerful Than How To?

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

When we’re writing a book, creating a workshop or giving a presentation, we go hurtling down the path of HOW-TO. Except it seems that HOW-To is only part of the picture. We’re missing out on a crucial element, which is why our clients get confused. Learn how to use the HOW-NOT-To in your online and […]

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