Recently I’ve been thinking about how to make our sales teams more effective. I have come to the conclusion that one of the key success factors for any sales person is good time management, and that is what I would like to discuss in this post. Being a sales person isn’t easy – long working hours, travel, difficult customers, [...]
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I just recorded a quick video talking through my notes for the first chapter of my book which is “Flow and the meaning of life” It’s a primer on flow states and I think it’s the best answer to the question of “what is the meaning of life” — to live in flow. Much more to expound on the topic but [...]
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Filing under the “staying humble” category is this image I stumbled upon from Tim Urban of Wait But Why. As he writes: A really starry sky seems vast—but all we’re looking at is our very local neighborhood. On the very best nights, we can see up to about 2,500 stars (roughly one hundred-millionth of the stars in our galaxy), [...]
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My Most Illustrious Lord, Having now sufficiently seen and considered the achievements of all those who count themselves masters and artificers of instruments of war, and having noted that the invention and performance of the said instruments is in no way different from that in common usage, I shall endeavour, while intending no [...]
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In my previous post I outlined my first meditation-tech investment which was the Muse neurofeedback device. In this post I will be discussing my second investment, the Inner Balance Heart Rate Variability (HRV) trainer from HeartMath plus some conclusions from my practice. HRV training is practiced by many of the gurus of the biohacking [...]
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Approximately 80% of top performers have some kind of meditation practice, according to Tim Ferris, who gained close access to a wide variety of such people due to the success of his writing career and podcast. I’ve known that meditation is a critical habit for years but have simply not been able to implement it, until half way through [...]
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I’d like to share with you a work optimization method called “The Pomodoro Technique”. The basic principle is to focus for a 25 minute period (a “pomodoro”) on a single task with the help of a timer, traditionally the tomato shaped cooking timer (pomodoro is tomato in Italian). After completing an [...]
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I recently discovered a corporate strategist and neuroscientist Dr Robert Cooper, who’s devoted his career to researching and improving human performance via what he calls “hacking human nature”. I thought it would be valuable to summarize and share some of the key nuggets from his main keynote presentation (you can watch some highlights [...]
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The study of “happiness” (happiology?) is one of my main areas of interest.  I’ve read multiple specialized books on the matter by people who’ve dedicated their lives to its study, such as: The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom [...]
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 An idea I picked up recently from Larry Page and Google X via the Singularity Crew is the concept of “10x thinking”. Mostly, when people are trying to improve something, they aim for a 10% improvement. Setting your target at 10% will get a 2% to 5% improvement, if you’re lucky. The culture that Larry Page has tried to instill in [...]
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