It’s the 58th minute of the 90 or so minute interview with Neil Patel, and I’ve paused it and started cursing for the 4th time in a row. “Fuck, how does that guy just find solutions to these complex questions so quickly? It’s insane!" Enter Neil Patel, a skinny nerd dating models and making it rain whenever he choses to. If things like having a private driver (and a car) for … [Read more...]
It’s Hard to be Honest
It’s hard to be honest. It’s probably the hardest thing that you can ever do. Brutally honest. Not to the people around you, well, that too, but to yourself. I watched the first 16min of Chase Jarvis interviewing Seth Godin. And minute after minute, Seth Godin blew my mind. And as I was being honest to myself, he blew my ego out as well. The understanding needed 15min to … [Read more...]
Farts, Blogging and Shit Sandwiches
Everybody wants to have their own business nowadays. And that’s good, it’s dope, I believe it’s a long-needed paradigm shift. But what not everybody is willing to do is to go through the shitty starting-out period. Or as Mark Manson puts it, you gotta eat shit sandwiches. The trick is to eat shit sandwiches that you like. Blogging is one of the easy solutions.The good … [Read more...]
Are you a Monkey?
Here's a mind blowing experiment that will explain social conditioning and WHY you should be asking yourself WHY all the time: Scientists put 5 monkey in a cage. They placed a ladder with bananas in the cage too. Every time a monkey would try to climb it and get bananas, they would spray all the monkeys with really cold water. Eventually, no monkey would ever go for the … [Read more...]
Understanding & Setting boundaries – When is it enough?
Setting boundaries is something I learned a lot about in my late teenage years when I was working as a therapeutic support worker in summer camps for “difficult children.” You see, a lot of these challenging children (they quickly get stigmatized as aggressive, hyperactive, depressive…) have a problem with understanding boundaries. When is it not funny anymore? When is it not … [Read more...]