From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Extending A Metaphor — Going From The ‘T-Shaped Person’ To ‘The Brush-Shaped Being’

by Roy Blumenthal on October 15, 2009

Bright people know stuff. And they generally interact with other
people who know stuff. Our knowledge fields are ‘T-Shaped’. And our
interactions are generally pretty narrow, taking place along the
narrow shaft of our specialisation, or the low penetration of our
general interests.

What if we were to embrace a more extended metaphor that allows us to
be at home with powerful innovation? What if we could use our bristly
personalities to become drivers of innovation? Are you ready to
declare yourself a ‘The Brush-Shaped Being’?

The Brush-Shaped Being

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I’m delivering a talk to a bunch of MENSA folk this evening. This is my presentation, as shared on SlideShare.

Please feel free to make use of it as you see fit. It’s released under a Creative Commons ‘Attribution, Share-Alike’ license.

I apologise for the way SlideShare has removed the formating from my notes. I believe in white space and paragraph breaks. And for some reason, the conversion process from Open Office Impress to SlideShare ripped out all the carriage returns. I’ll see what I can do about it.

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Financial Mastery — a few pictures from Elise and Craig Ellis’s workshop

by Roy Blumenthal on October 7, 2009

Craig and Elise had a full house of delegates at their Financial Mastery workshop in Rivonia today. I was present as Craig’s guest, and I brought my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc with me for the event. I decided to do some pictures summarising the main content.

The concepts are drawn largely from Napolean Hill’s THINK AND GROW RICH, along with George Clason’s THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON, with a few twists thrown into the mix by John DeMartini.

My main takeouts from the workshop were:

1. I really must create a ‘10% of all income goes into THIS account FIRST’ account. I USED TO have one. Then my mom got cancer. And I plundered the account down to zero. And didn’t fill it up again. Blah.

2. I want to carry in my pocket my ‘jingle’. It’s a George Clason term, referring to carrying spare cash amounting to the ideal daily amount you’d like to be paid. So, in other words, if my ideal daily payment is R15 000, I should carry that with me as a casual cash amount that I don’t spend. It’s simply there with me at all times.

3. The workshop reminds me that abundance is all around.

The three pictures are by no means the sum of the workshop. They’re just a scraping from the material Elise and Craig offered.

Head for their website to find out more about what they do, and the other workshops they offer. Their company is called Inspirit Life Design. Here’s the address: http://www.inspiritlifedesign.co.za.

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