This is a guest post from Tim Brownson. You can check out his blog here. Communication, or rather the lack of it, is one of the biggest problems facing mankind today. That was the rather contentious statement that I made in my thesis when I was training to become a life coach and one that […]
Archives for March 2008
Friday Links 08-03-28
From the Web The Entrepreneurship Myth – Owning your own business sounds glamorous, but according to Scott Shane, it isn’t the way to get rich. The article talks about Shane’s book The Illusions of Entrepreneurship which shows research that says small business owners tend to earn less than they would have at a job. The […]
Do You Need More Effort or Better Opportunities?
One way to split up the world is to divide areas of life into those that need opportunities versus those that only need effort. For example, imagine you are writing a book. Writing a book is mostly a matter of effort. Having a stroke of creative genius helps, but ultimately finishing is about putting in […]
How to Setup a Killer Pre-Exam Warm Up Ritual
In my recent book, Learn More, Study Less, I make the claim that you can learn better with less studying by learning holistically. Holistic learning, for those who haven’t read my introduction to the topic, is about linking ideas together instead of relying on rote memorization. The assumption with holistic learning has been that you […]