Month: January 2020

The magic of memorizing: Chain-link method

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Today’s post will be a bit different. I will share a recent experience with Jim Kwik‘s Superbrain course at Mindvalley. It is about memorizing using the chain-link method.

Why I am sharing this? Because I found it cool! It is very easy to learn, it really works, and maybe could be useful in the future, who knows.

Also it is said that when you share it, when you tech it, you learn it twice.

Let’s start first with a little challenge…

Try to learn those words. Only memorizing, not writing. In order.

  1. Fire hydrant
  2. Ballon
  3. Batteries
  4. Barrel
  5. Board
  6. Diamond
  7. Sir Lancelot
  8. Mask
  9. Toothpaste
  10. Sign

Now, without any trick, try to remember them in order. Write them, compare, … Read the rest!

Are you fired up? Ready to go!

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Last Monday I was shown Obama’s “Fired up, ready to go” speech in a corporate meeting. It was at the end of the meeting, as a motivational video.

Now I know that it wasn’t the original video, it was Obama retelling the story doing campaign for Hillary Clinton. This is the video, and I recommend you to see it:

There’s another previous video where he tells the story of “Fired Up! Ready to Go!”, from his final rally in 2012.

If you don’t want to enjoy the video, this is the original story: In June 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama visited the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina, as part of his campaign efforts. When he arrived at the town’s … Read the rest!

Leaders are readers: Rebuilding the reading habit

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Have you ever heard that leaders are readers? Reading “can improve intelligence and lead to innovation and insight”, and you’ll find that well-known world leaders, influencers, entrepreneurs, etc, usually share large lists of books that they had read yearly.

As I mentioned in my new year’s resolution post, rebuilding my reading habit is one of my new challenges. In this post I would like to share some details about my plan, and build and share the list of books I want to read for this year 2020.

Doesn’t mean that I don’t read at all, I really do, but mostly articles and posts published through LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, etc. They keep me up to date, … Read the rest!

Sergeant Tom Highway and the emotional intelligence

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Recently watched on TV the film Heartbreak Ridge, produced, directed, and also starred by Clint Eastwood. I really loved this movie, I’ve seen it many times. But what has this movie and his main character to do with emotional intelligence?

Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway is one of his famous starred characters. A very tough guy, seasoned, the marine leader that everybody wanted to see in a film. And as usual it is so well performed by Clint Eastwood.

It’s my will against yours, and you will lose.

Tom highway

At the time I was watching the film, a reference from a book came to my mind… Some years ago I bought I book named “Search Inside Yourself: … Read the rest!

Morning exercise. Why?

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Morning exercise is one of this year’s resolutions. Nothing unusual, like many other existing goals that anyone could set. But anybody could feel curious and ask me: Why should I change it to mornings? Are there any real benefits of waking up earlier for doing workouts?

But, before answering these questions, I might go to the resolutions post. There’s a personal goal here. Last year I achieved an awesome goal of being consistent with exercise at home with the help of the Freeletics App, mainly doing the workout in evenings or nights, and only in the morning on weekends.

The reason to move this to the morning as a daily routine is very easy to understand: is … Read the rest!