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…
If you ever want the proven slow way for learning, go to school where information is fed to you slowly, you don’t know the big picture and instead of spending a whole day on a subject or a topic, you only spend 40 minutes to 1 hour and instead of learning the gaps you are…
Many, many years ago I was having a conversation with someone who was an insurance assessor and we got onto talking about patterns because ultimately their job is about recognising patterns. I said that after the 3rd time that something happened, you could see the pattern. He said to me, no, I’d only give it…
If you don’t understand concepts or pattern recognition, you miss the big picture and guess what we’re not taught at school. That’s right: Concepts Pattern Recognition Because: A concept is the underlying idea being work to and or from A pattern is the same events reoccurring Because: If you begin to understand concepts and recognise…
The more one begins looking into our universe and the workings of it, especially when it pertains to us, the more fascinating it becomes. And what you begin to discover about our universe is that it has got three main components to it, and they being: It is a Thought Universe It is a Participatory…
When you begin looking into anything new, it can be quite confusing and so it is when you begin looking into the Hermetica. But once you find out what the keys are, things become much easier and from there you can decide how far you want to go. What I’ve found looking into the Hermetica,…
There is a very good reason for understanding concepts, whether that be in sport or life, and it’s simply this. Because: Once you understand the concept, you understand the game. And by extension, once you understand the concept, you begin to understand the thinking that goes on. And once you understand the thinking, then you…
If you’ve followed my writings for a while, you’ll notice I spend very little time on the tactics of sport, and the answer is very simple, in reality there isn’t that many tactics. So the following is a quick summary: When you get the ball you are going to do one of either 3 things:…
The way that I learn is very simple and any one can follow and use it. The thing about learning is that you will pick up information from everywhere and anywhere and generally from the most unlikely of sources, it’s a matter of opening up the eyes to see and the ears to hear, and…
When one begins to look at nature and how it operates, two things begin to emerge and stick out. The two things are the simplicity of nature and the balance that it achieves. For on the surface it may look complex and chaotic at times, though underneath it is the concept of fractals, which is…
There are some very simple concepts I’m working to and they’re concepts that most can follow and understand very easily and they concern sport, health and growing things. The concepts are simply these: Sport If you learn about the key aspects of your sport and practice the key skills, techniques and tactics, you will become…
To make learning easier there is a 3-step process to work through and without the 3-step process, the learning becomes slower and slower. The steps are simply this: Outline the Concept Fill in the Concept with broad strokes Finish off with the Details Because: With the concept, you are providing an idea and a frame…
If you have been reading any of my blogs you’ll very quickly come to see that principles play a big part in what is done. The reason is why? The answer is actually very simple. But first what are principles? Principles are a constant, which means they are a fixed thing which means if you…
An interesting book to read is Wilful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan. It’s basically about how people miss what’s obvious when the information is sitting there in front of them. http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Wilful-Blindness-Margaret-Heffernan/9781847399052 And here are two talks Margaret has given with stories which appear in her book. http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_the_dangers_of_willful_blindness.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6mDZs7QVfs And when it comes to sport it is…
The following is a bit of an insight in how I work out what to put in the conclusion line at the end of each entry. Sometimes a conclusion will come in the first hit, others, like the example below takes playing around with the words, either adding, subtracting or exchanging them. This example is about what…
I’ve been looking at some of the people I’ve studied, followed or admired over the years and there is one factor that always comes to the fore. Those people being: Bruce Lee Jim Henson Albert Einstein Arthur Lydiard Bob Paisley Steve Jobs You may not have agreed with the way they did things, but they…
Watched an interesting talk by Nicolas Perony on the simple rules that animals work from that produce what appears to be complex random behaviours, yet in reality are not once the rules they are working by are understood. http://www.ted.com/talks/nicolas_perony_puppies_now_that_i_ve_got_your_attention_complexity_theory.html Noel calls it simplifying complexity, though the context is the same as simplicity thinking, getting at…
Description Simplicity thinking is about seeing the essence in things and those that have dyslexia in one degree or another have a huge head start in this area. Quotes If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough – Albert Einstein Simple is good – Jim Henson It’s the little details that…
There is one sure fire way to be good at what you do and become successful, if you so wish to choose. And it is simply this: In whatever you choose to do, find out what you have to do to be good and then change yourself to work to those aspects It’s amazing the…
As you go along and get better at what you do, the more you begin to realise that it’s the smallest things that make the biggest difference. And like most successful things, it runs counterintuitive to what people think and it’s generally people with simplicity thinking who get at the little things that make the…
