“Genius” is an over-used term, but what does it mean? “Someone who has an unusually high level of intelligence, mental skill or artistic ability” is the dictionary definition. In 1939, a young doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived late for a statistics class and quickly jotted down two equations that were left [...]
February 7th, 2012 will be the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens and this comes at a time when the famous nineteenth century novelist seems more and more contemporary. Why am I writing about him when I’m in no way a Dickens expert? Well, like me, he spent most of his life in [...]
I swapped the office cubicle for the spare room two years ago and I’ve never looked back. However, working from home isn’t as simple or as easy as it sounds. It certainly helped that I’d spent two years “easing myself in” – working at home temporarily whilst freelancing at other offices part time. Exercise Dog-owners [...]
“If you are successful at school; you will be successful in life” I wasn’t a great success at school. Even though I was sent to good schools, in order to get me to work hard, I was told “if you are successful at school; you will be successful in life”. As hard as I tried [...]
How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie in 1937, it has sold 15 million copies. “[Dale Carnegie] changed my life” Warren Buffett, one of the world’s wealthiest people and most generous philanthropist of all time. The book isn’t about how to be [...]
In a previous post about Tim Ferriss‘s best-seller the 4 Hour WorkWeek, I ranted on about Tim’s fantastic opinions on the 80/20 rule, Parkinson’s law and elimination of unnecessary actions. I have now finished the book and continued with my entrepreneur self help guide binge with The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber. The book [...]
The book I am reading at the moment is The 4 Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. I had heard about it from Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress the popular blogging software that powers this site. I’m only halfway through the book but already I’ve been introduced to some interesting principles and have acted [...]
Before I start of this post I would like to ask you to think of an answer to this question: What one thing could you do that you aren’t doing now that if you did on a regular basis would make a tremendous positive difference to your personal or professional life? One book I enjoyed [...]
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