Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini As a life-long learner I’m always looking for new books to read. Sometimes the books aren’t new to market, but they’re new to me. This is one such book. Written back …
About two weeks ago I was sitting by myself at a cafe reading, when a man comes up to me and asks “What do you think of the book?” I was reading Chip Heath and Dan Heath’s book Switch: How …
Sometimes it takes a long time to learn the value of commitment. This one took me more than five years. About eight years ago, my wife and I committed to volunteering with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Calgary. It’s …
Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Outliers,” came out in 2008 as a follow-up to his popular book “Blink”. In “Outliers” Gladwell writes a compelling argument that “it is not the brightest who succeed, nor is success simply the sum of the decisions and …
One hour a day, three days a week, pretty well every week for ten years my grandfather (Opa) would teach me either Lithuanian or German language. At the time it was gruelling. I called it “the dungeon”, even though we sat …
Happy new year! Here are ten questions you can start your year with. These questions can be used to help you re-focus and set some meaningful goals for 2011. I find it can be helpful to have a few guiding …
It’s very easy to live the same way every day and have very little or nothing change. I try to not live my life that way. I was once told that as soon as you stop changing you become old. …
I thought more about perspectives since entering yesterday’s blog, and I realised how my perspective is quite different to most people’s. This is mainly because I have travelled to many countries (31) and lived in four – Australia, Germany, England, …
We live in a world with many where there seem to be many “truths” and absolutes. It’s wrong to steal. Giving is good. Drugs are bad. But these and all the other “rules” we live our lives by are not …
5:30pm May, 1989. We had just finished dinner and my father says to me, “Matthew we need to chat about your report card.” “Yes Dad.” I knew it wasn’t going to be a good chat. I hadn’t seen my report …
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Earlier this week I had a meeting with an entrepreneur. He's run a number of businesses and now he's developing a community...
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