It is your grade 1 teachers fault!

Why do we read so slow... because we were taught wrong!!

Recent statistic from Forbes state:

CEO's of Fortune 500 companies earn 309 times the average wage of their employees... they also read 60 books a year and attend at least 6 conferences..

Average wage earners read less than 1 book a year....

Maybe you have too many friends...

According to a Seth Godin 2009 post:

Dunbar's number is 150.

And he's not compromising, no matter how much you whine about it.

Dunbar postulated that the typical human being can only have 150 friends. One hundred fifty people in the tribe. After that, we just aren't cognitively organized to handle and track new people easily. That's why, without external forces, human tribes tend to split in two after they reach this size. It's why WL Gore limits the size of their offices to 150 (when they grow, they build a whole new building).

Facebook and Twitter and blogs fly in the face of Dunbar's number. They put hundreds or thousands of friendlies in front of us, people we would have lost touch with (why? because of Dunbar!) except that they keep digitally reappearing.

Reunions are a great example of Dunbar's number at work. You might like a dozen people you meet at that reunion, but you can't keep up, because you're full.

Some people online are trying to flout Dunbar's number, to become connected and actual friends with tens of thousands of people at once. And guess what? It doesn't scale. You might be able to stretch to 200 or 400, but no, you can't effectively engage at a tribal level with a thousand people. You get the politician's glassy-eyed gaze or the celebrity's empty stare. And then the nature of the relationship is changed.

I can tell when this happens. I'm guessing you can too

Jordan Belfort SUCKS...

I am sure that is what most people think... but I have a different perspective.

Often a skill is used the wrong way... in Belfort's case he perfected STRAIGHT LINE SELLING and used it to rip people off. And as we will see if we read the book, or go to the movie The WOLF of Wall Street, his life was on of excess and a big fall.
I have just finished both of Belfort's books and I have also just watched a couple of videos... I am inspired to create wealth using my skills to write and sell... and make a difference.

Belfort says: No matter how big your screw up, you can come back"



My mantra until 2020 is:

Success belongs to those who can lern, unlearn and relearn... let's get there together.