The World’s Top Therapist || Bob Newhart
Yesterday, the amazing Bob Newhart, a US stand-up and sitcom star, who regularly influenced my life, in a career that spanned more than 50 years, passed away. While he is no longer physically present, his incredible contribution will live on for generations to come,...
SA Election Winners In A Sandpit For an Hour
Imagine taking the leaders of this week’s top 8 National political parties (Cyril Ramaphosa, John Steenhuizen, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Velenkosini Hlabisa, Gayton McKenzie, Pieter Groenewald and Herman Mashaba) and dropping them into a sandpit for an hour,...
An Ode To LinkedIn
LinkedIn, you beauty. Full of humans trying to catch a break. Find a job. Make a sale. Be affirmed. You stand out from the crowd. You’re not X with all its anger and ugliness. You’re not Insta, pushing beautiful bodies and plastic smiles. You’re not...
What Criteria Does Wordle Use for Its Answer List
AFTER DINGO YESTERDAY (21 May 2024), I started to wonder about what words are on the Wordle Answer List? I thought Dingo was a proper noun, and proper nouns can’t be used. How did they get there? What criteria is used for them being there? I figured I might have...
Take The 30 Day Play Challenge. I Dare You. I Did
I DON’T PLAY AS MUCH AS I’D LIKE TO. Responsibilities take over. My calendar gets full. My to-do list overwhelms me. It’s not that I don’t have time. Time I have. My mind lets me down, and I just want to escape and hide away. I’ve been...
Naughty Julie’s Playful, Cute and Sexy Boxers
MEETING NAUGHTY JULIE I met Naughty Julie on the side of a hockey astro towards the end of 2023. ‘Naughty’ because she was sassy, fun, and was in the throws of starting a small business, selling her / his boxers. Naughty Julie stuck, and I’ve loved...
A Push Up Challenge And The 10 000 Hour Rule Problem
THE ONES ADD UP! An accounting phrase, I am told. Simply meaning that if you don’t pay attention to ‘the ones’ and let them slide, thinking they’re so small and therefore not worth worrying about, you one day look back and realise that over...
Creativity and your Subconscious. Nothing is as it seems
I do believe this is a pretty decent definition for what creativity is. I’ve subscribed to this view for as long as I can remember. My view has been properly challenged by the videos below, where Derren Brown invited 2 sets of Advertising Executives (one set in...
