Swart Donkey

I had obstacles to overcome with the Yoga Centre I joined. The style did make a few minor adaptations for Western tastes. Like moving breath...

Even if you are micro-ambitious, you want to be able to keep momentum in the stuff you do. To be building on what you have done before. Cons...

I am not sure whether I consider myself a “risk taker”. I go through waves, phases, and situations where I am very risk averse and others wh...

I t is worth reading the book, “ How to win friends and influence people ” by Dale Carnegie. The name sounds terrible. I put off reading it ...

To really gain an understanding of the world, you need a pinch of salt for the way you think things work. Understanding that can be quite fr...

Find comfort within discomfort. That does not mean pushing through pain. With yoga and stretching, to progress, you do not need to hurt your...

Although building Engines is an incredibly empowering financial goal, I prefer to think like Michelangelo. The Italian sculptor would create...

Wealth building takes time. We love stories of outliers and exponential shifts. There is no shortage of discontent pedlars who will sell y...

When I was 14, I had an incredibly gifted Maths teacher name d Mrs Chick. Everybody loved her, and she loved everybody. I had a habit of dr...

My friend Clair (a poet) shared her favourite warm-up tongue-twister, ' There is a chip shop in space, that sells space ship shaped chi...

Enye yeendlela iindlela abantwana bafunda ngazo, kukuphindaphinda. Bazokopisha abazali babo nootitshala. Amagama nezenzo ziphindaphinda ng...

I am a slow learner. I am just very stubborn, and comfortable with the discomfort of appearing stupid and making mistakes in public. 'T...

We run along parallel to many sources of joy, meaning and fulfilment if we define ourselves to narrowly . If we aren't able to overco...

Fun things often have rules. Rules often aren't fun. Blast. Chapter 3 of Steven Pinker's book The Sense of Style  talks about The Cu...

The reason I am so interested in the initial stages of learning is because that is before you have had any wins. There is a discrepancy bet...

Gabe Wyner has written a book and has a website and other tools to help people become 'Fluent Forever'. I am slowly making my way...

Learning often feels like you are covered in a thick mist . You make your way along a path with heightened senses, apprehension, and depend...

I am attempting to learn a few things at the moment. Some more from scratch than others. I did try learning the piano before (1998-2001) bu...

I have always liked the idea that you can judge whether you understand something by whether you are able to explain it. That the core, impor...

Despite the man partly responsible for my learning where Middle C on a piano is going, 'Oh no......' on hearing of my purchase of a ...