There are lots of examples where school has failed entrepreneurs, who were clearly gifted to do something else. Less so, the examples of people who are doing okay, that have all the trappings of modern life. A mortgage, a car lease, living pay-day to pay-day. And for people that were disruptive at school, never did anything and ended up in prison? Well that is obviously their fault, isn’t it? The main things that school did not teach me that I will try to teach my kids:
There are so many books that I have read in my adult life that I wish someone had given me at school. Actually, that is a lie, because I would not have read them at school because school distilled in me a hatred for reading. If the only point of reading is to take a test, to see if you can remember the same things as the person who wrote the questions, is it any wonder that we have a generation of people that only read fiction to fall asleep, or worse do not read at all. What’s the best thing you learned after school that you think should be included? Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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Apart from containing the most sustainable diet plan on the planet, the slow carb diet, this book is filled with teachings to improve your whole life.
Tim perhaps puts it best: “This book is a Trojan horse full of unexpected transfers.
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What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog Seeking true wisdom seems, to me, like piecing together nuggets of advice that seem paradoxical until you truly understand them for yourself. The trouble with listening to others alone is that you either get conflicting information or you pigeon hole yourself into one way of thinking. You must internalise what you hear, read, see and make it true to yourself. Want to be successful? Easy, look for others more than yourself. Or. Easy, be ruthless in going after what you want. Both have been seen to be true, but how can it be so? Back when I used to run more, we used to joke that it wasn’t the fastest person to run the 10k that won. It was the person that can run the 10k the fastest and still drink the most beers afterwards as that showed that you had balance in your life. We could have run faster if we did not drink, cut out desserts, trained every day instead of socialising. But the goal was not to win the race at all costs of missing going out, it was to enjoy running. If the goal was to win an Olympic medal, then clearly our strategy is not enough. People training for that have a singular focus and never give up. Until they give up. Or until they get the medal. Either way, there is a price to other things they could have been doing. When setting your goals and choosing who to listen to you must decide if that is the person you want to be. Do you want to be alone? Do you want to be hated? Do you want only fleeting relationships? Because to get the surface level success that the masses covet, there may be some payoffs your idols had to make that you are not immediately aware of. Decide what your goal is before you get on the treadmill otherwise it may be tricky to get off. And when you do, you might find you are back where you started in some areas of your life. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog What if you worked eight hours at a corporate job then spent three hours working on a side project? What if you did your side job in the middle of the day: worked two hours at your corporate job, three hours on a side project and then six hours back at your normal job? What if you juggled your energy between the two all day and got more done in both? What is you found out that you get better results, more consistently – and had more energy – only doing four hours of work a day in total between the two? Why does anyone care about this spit? And why are people really worried about the gig economy? Taxes. Not workers’ rights or productivity. If everyone has time to be their own corporate entity then the government will receive much less tax. Or worse, the population may realise they are much better than anyone ever thought and stop becoming full time worker-consumers. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog It still surprises me that mentees hear very general advice from “mentors” in a corporate setting. (Mentors in the loosest sense of the word. They are slightly higher on the org chart than you - see reverse the org chart). It benefits the organisation to give very general feedback. No one will ever know if you have achieved it or not by your next annual review. They keep their downsizing options open. You know you are talking to someone experienced when they can break it down for you. If there is not something you can do daily, then it is not actionable. Push your boss to turn their feedback into a daily habit and find out if they are good or lucky. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog Lots of advice is to hunker down, to save your nuts for the winter. Get your head down, study, get good grades, get a good job. Lately, there is lots of other advice to be a leader, entrepreneur, raise capital, raise debt, travel the world, make more money. Neither track is bad advice. But why not do both? Make more money and save more money. Work a full-time job and do one on the side. Have roots somewhere and travel too. The trouble with advice is that it comes from the worldview of the person giving it, not from the worldview of the person receiving it. If you are introverted, have a brilliant idea and are a little timid then following advice to listen more, read more, and to be cautious is tempting as it is your natural self. Similarly, if you are already overconfident, talk over people, and act before thinking, then getting advice to be brasher, to do more and to pester people might not be the best. In either case, seeking out advice that is less like your current self, whilst not losing who you are is surely the secret to the game. If you have low self-esteem then thinking that you are better than everyone around you is just an antidote to bring you back to normal. If you are already arrogant, then the same advice is an overdose likely to tip you over the edge of social norms. Whatever you are like, whatever you are doing. You can do it all. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog HANLON’S RAZOR: Why do anything else? Complaining about others makes you feel worse. Cultivating a habit of seeing the best in people makes you feel better. Assuming everyone else does not know what they are doing makes you take control of your own life. Assume the best, plan for the worst. Do your own thing. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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A bite-sized package of wisdom, some of the text will make you stop and think. Depending on your mood and situation, some pages will make no sense. But persevere, review them often and you will be sure to find something that matches your current state.
Read a page per day for a tiny slice of replenishment for the mind.
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What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog Is success cash on a bed? A watch on your wrist? A car in your drive? If you do not have these then you might think it is? If you have ever tasted a little piece of them, you will know that it is not. Define success and find that you might already have it. Or at least find that you do not have to chase material things to make you happy. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog There are no weaknesses, only superpowers. I heard Ed Sheeran talking a lot recently about growing up a weird nerdy kid with a stutter. He said that rap music helped him to get over it and look where his is now. Whatever happens to you can become a driving force or a self-pity loop. Even if nothing bad happens to you, that can also be bad. Have no friends? Great. You won’t get distracted when you work on your side hustle. Family member has cancer? Great. You now have something worth making more money for, so you can give more back. You are homeless? Great. You have nothing to lose so you can try everything You are reading this? Great. You are likely the in the 10% richest in the world, you can do more than 90% of the world’s population think is possible Whatever is holding you back is the key to moving forwards if you set your mind right. Like Marcus Aurelius wrote, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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