(Than Speak in Public)
As odd as it sounds, people would rather die than walk into a room of strangers and talk to them! It makes no logical sense to me, but deep in the shadow of my childhood fears, can still hear my mother’s warning, “Don’t talk to strangers!”
Decades later that modern…
The great P.T Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” With the advent of the Internet, those same snake oil salesmen, con artists and charlatans are back — this time with the power of technology to ‘prove’ their rakish claims. So now (paraphrasing P.T.) …
Put another way, what seemingly innocent and indirect question reveals whether a prospect makes more than 6-figures a year?
No, it’s not “Do you make more than 6-figures a year?” That would be impolite. It’s a simple question backed by the Government of Canada’s statistics department.
Frankly, when I tell…
And while I’m on this subject, WIN-WIN-WIN is wrong too!
Don’t misunderstand, I love the sentiment of ‘win-win,’ it’s just a flawed formula here’s why:
You have to keep score.
If you’re truly entering into a relationship where it’s supposed to be good for everyone, how does that work where…
A renowned university studied how people spoke about making a change or achieving a particular outcome in their life and the associated likelihood of them achieving it. The results were enlightening, to say the least.
* Of those that said, “that’s a good idea,” they had a 10% chance of…
The benefits to Tiny House living are immeasurable and combined, they could just be the sugar needed to help North Americans embrace a sustainable lifestyle. Finally.
Let’s face it. What is happening in America is shameful.
The economy has tanked, and our decadence is waning. Many families are left in…
I just learned Sir Clive Sinclair passed away last week, he created the first computers I ever owned!
The ZX Spectrum was my 3rd computer. First was the ZX80, then a ZX81 and finally the ZX Spectrum.
I learned to program BASIC and eventually Z80 machine code on those machines.
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Noraly Schoenmaker, (aka “Itchy Boots”) is a 30-something Dutch travel vlogger. Her popular blog and YouTube channel, which now has over 559K subscribers, afford Noraly a unique nomadic lifestyle — that of the perpetual motorcycle explorer.
Her frequent (often daily) vlogs and her sunny disposition, draw us into her travels…
A few years ago, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a popular book called Outliers, and for what it’s worth, this book has done more harm than good in the skill acquisition and learning space.
That book infected our world with the idea that becoming really good at something, needed 10,000 hours of…
