When it comes to people, we’ve all got this power learning within. Everyone has a slightly different way that they learn, for ultimately, we all teach ourselves, though there are some basic principles to understand if we want to unleash the power learning within others and from within ourselves. And there appears to be four…
I started looking around the internet for information about the imagination and I was surprised to find very little and yet when you look at the human imagination it is literally a creative tool which we underutilise to our detriment. And there is two ways to look at the imagination in that it is a…
When you look at the brain and all that it does, it is amazing that it accomplishes so many things at the same time for the working brain deos so many things all at once. And it’s no more prevalent than when out on the sporting field, especially playing a team game. And we all…
When one begins looking at motivation, the general concept is that you throw a few incentives at people to get them to do whatever is required to be done. From my experience, motivation goes much deeper than that, and for you to be able to motivate others requires a deeper understanding than most really get…
In anything that is done, you always have rules and principles that one works by, and so it is with coaching, and my first rule of coaching is one that everything builds upon. This first rule of coaching is that the brain wants to learn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLYkV689s4 The desire to learn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzymbEl2DSg And in having that…
Everyone talks about the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, and when you look at what he did, he was, but his real genius wasn’t in his thinking, it was in his exceptional ability to paint and draw. The life of Leonardo Da Vinci is always fascinating and worth looking into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-h32XpDYBw And even what he…
One of the most fascinating things I find about what I am doing is how my questions evolve over time, especially to do around the coaching concept. And it’s only by doing stuff that the questions evolve out of what I’m doing and as I gain more knowledge, the questions evolve even further. The original…
We all want to become more creative, it’s how we become more productive, though in becoming more creative, we have to embrace failure and mistakes and most aren’t willing to do so. And yet failing or the risk of failing and making mistakes is one of the main criteria for becoming more creative because being…
When we come into this world we all have open curious minds, for without an open mind one cannot be curious and learn what we do. And without open curious minds we could not teach ourselves to walk and talk, all before the age of two, and by the age of two we begin to…
Recently I was watching a talk and someone mentioned the concept of the beginner’s mind, so I looked around and basically found out that at its heart was about retaining curious minds. It’s an eastern philosophy and as usual when people explain this stuff through the eastern philosophy they make it this mysterious concept. I…
In this information age that we are living in, if you want to keep up with what is happening, you can’t keep studying the details, for if you do that, you fall so far behind. Don’t get me wrong, there will be one or two subjects that you will specialize in or have a particular…
There is a simple way to begin to accelerate your rate of learning and that is simply by starting. I keep hearing people saying, I haven’t got time for learning, and I go, do you watch TV? If so, you’ve got time for learning. As an experiment, give up an hour of watching TV and…
What we think of as a teacher in the education system, isn’t really a teacher at all, they are more of an instructor sticking to a curriculum of certain information. For a teacher in reality is a student, they are one in the same, because in reality, regardless of perceived qualifications, a teacher is not…
The whole thing about everything we do revolves around expanding knowledge for we live in an infinite information field and it is only by asking questions that we can expand our acquisition and understanding of that information which goes on to form our knowledge, for knowledge is nothing more than a collection of information. And…
For most, when you mention about having an open mind, will believe that they have and then protect the dogma that they live by. For everyone is inherently curious, for how would one learn to walk and talk for no one teaches you how to do that after your birth, you actually teach that to…
When one begins looking at the work, life and philosophy of John Lennon, it becomes abundantly clear that he had an understanding and appreciation of consciousness and how one interacts with it can affect the individual and the collective as a whole. When one looks at the 4 ways we communicate with consciousness, you can…
In whatever endeavour one undertakes, one must learn to search for oneself. In by that, one must learn to start exploring information from multiple sources, rather than just be fed from only one or two, for the one or two may have a built in bias. If one does enough research, one begins to find…
If you are trying to get people to become internally motivated, don’t bother for you will be wasting your time. The only way someone can become internally motivated is if they are self-actualizers. The only way someone can become a Self-Actualizer is to develop a Growth Mindset and participate in Proactive Learning. So don’t waste…
Description With a growth mindset, you are aware that the talent you have is just a starting point and that with work and effort you can get better and grow the talent that you have got. And you are also aware that the brain is like a muscle and that with work it gets stronger…
Ever failed at anything and wanted to give up? The following gem is a link which might make you reconsider. http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ And covers people involved in: Business Scientists & Thinkers Inventors Public Figures Hollywood Writers & Artists Musicians Athletes If any of the people listed in the list had given up at any stage or…
