We get paid for our filters

June 18, 2010 – 1:50 pm

There’s far more information out there than we could possibly cope with, so we use our filters to sort out the information we actually need. These filters come from our beliefs and values, our culture, our society, our personal experience, our learning … in fact pretty much every around us right now, and that we’ve been exposed to in our past. And it’s our filters that create our version of reality, how we see the world we’re interacting with.

Our greatest fear …

October 14, 2008 – 2:16 am

Quoted, I believe, in Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Marianne Williamson famously said:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are [...]

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How much time are you wasting?

June 15, 2008 – 11:08 pm

Now, I’m not talking about the time you spend gawking at the goggle-box (though that really is a complete waste of time), and I’m not talking about the time you spend wading through spam e-mails.  I’m not even talking about the time you spend on the web using online networks (or whatever).
The time I’m talking [...]

Focus, Potential & Performance

June 4, 2008 – 11:07 pm

I saw Marcus Alexander of Confidence Plus give a talk yesterday at the Surrey Business Club, and he used an interesting formula¹, that gels with my post last week about the importance of Focus. The formula goes:
PERFORMANCE = POTENTIAL – INTERFERENCE
So if we can reduce interference, performance should go up. Marcus was using [...]

For civilisation to make progress …

May 9, 2008 – 10:54 pm

…. each generation has to do better than the last one”
That’s a quote from a TED talk by Hector Ruiz (CEO of AMD), talking about the ‘50×15′ initiative.
It struck me as very true, particularly as Ruiz’s father related it not to “civilisation” as a whole, but to him as an individual – telling the young [...]

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The Power of Focus

September 20, 2007 – 7:33 pm

Sitting on a train the other evening, I noticed that someone had scratched graffitti into the glass window. As I looked at it, trying to decipher what it said, I found myself getting increasingly angry, as I noticed that the window was covered with odd little scratchings.
I was angry at the yobs who had felt [...]