KEYS TO POWER. Burning more brightly than those around you is a skill that no one is born with. You have to learn to attract attention, “as surely as the lodestone attracts iron.” At the start of your career, you must attach your name and reputation to a quality, an image, that sets you apart …
Yesterday I wrote about how the art of persuasion is central to pretty much everything I cover in my content—in particular business and the dating world. Today on Twitter I posted each of Robert Cialdini’s 6 principles of persuasion. I’ll be writing more about each of these in turn—and how you can apply them—throughout this …
In this episode, I go deep into how I am learning new skills to build my first ever digital course. I also offer the opportunity for anyone who books Kyle Trouble’s Pro Niche Site course through my link to have an hour’s free Skype coaching with me (worth £200). The offer only stands until Sunday …
I remember when I was a kid my dad asking me what I wanted to do when I grew up. ‘I don’t know,’ I said. ‘Well, what are you good at?’ he asked. ‘I don’t know—writing, I guess’, I said. ‘That won’t get you very far,’ he said. Not that my dad is down on …
Jeff Goins did a great episode of The Portfolio Life podcast a while back in which he talked about so-called ‘shadow careers’. A shadow career is that line of work you go into that is ‘close’ to what you actually want to do, but not quite it. I’ve written about this before, but to recap, …
It was Sunday night—a Sunday night just like this one. But back then, things were different. In the early afternoon I’d started to feel a slight discomfort. Heart palpitations. A little sweatiness of the palms. A strange taste in my mouth. Depending on how much caffeine I drank, this could get a lot worse. On …
Arrogance is one of those traits that we are meant to hide. ‘Don’t be arrogant’, you probably got told at one time or another. ‘It makes you look like a dick. People will hate you.’ Well, yes and no. Arrogance does make a person look like a dick in one sense. But it also paints …
In this episode I get into four rules I Tweeted earlier in the week about how you can master anything: – Learn to separate bullshit information from the good stuff – Find a person / people who are really good the thing you want to do – Follow exactly what they do – Repeat RELENTLESSLY …
‘Do it or don’t do it’ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art In the end, we either do it or we don’t do it. What is it? Anything. ‘It’ is any sort of action that will create change. Any action that will help us to build something. That will see us produce more than we …
Picture the scene. The sun is beating down. You are gazing out over the clear, azure Mediterranean sea. In your hand you hold an ice-cold cocktail. Next to you, a beautiful woman—your girlfriend (for this week, anyway) reclines, exposing her smooth, beautiful skin to the rays. Beep beep! Your iPhone, a top-of-the-range model in a …
