Is It Better Not To See?
It is my joy today to tell you about the best movie you’ve never heard of. If you’re of my generation, there’s almost no chance you’ve heard of the 1989 classic See No Evil, Hear No Evil starring acting legend Gene Wilder and comedy legend Richard Pryor. In this timeless classic, Wilder is deaf, whilst Pryor is blind. They are both in the wrong place at the wrong time when a murder takes place and are wrongly accused. They suffer from a lack of awareness of what is going on given their disabilities, and this makes them vulnerable: Pryor’s character hears the
Completely Rethinking The Comfort Ladder: I Was Wrong #1
Imagine you were the wealthiest person in a poor community. You are well-known and everyone looks up to you. But you have a problem. Because of the gap between you and everyone else, you feel guilty. You can afford to do whatever you want whenever you want, but the same is not true for everyone else. You want to maintain your position, as after all, your whole life has been focused on getting to this point. So what do you do to remove the guilt? That’s when you have an idea! You have more money than you need. You don’t care as much about
How to Trade Your Time for Work and Avoid Slavery
The fact is that you invest your time. The same way famous investors like Ray Dalio, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are investing, so are you. But the most important resource you’re trading with is not financial capital, but your own time. This is factual. It is not a questionable reality. The only uncertainty is whether you are aware of it or not. We have talked recently about the kidnapping of Marshall Godeyemi, lessons from United Airlines Flight 173 and the Two Steps to Purchase a Slave in the 21st Century. These lessons teach us one key thing - people are bad at managing
Two Steps to Purchase a Slave in the 21st Century
Buying a slave in the 21st century is needlessly frowned upon. I can assure you that there is a perfectly legal method of doing so and I will happily talk you through it today. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world. When I mention 21st century slavery I’m not talking about the swept-under-the-rug style of modern slavery, though I’ll forgive you for thinking of that. That slavery is not legal, the kind I’m referring to is. It is not something happening in dirty and corrupt parts of the third world. It is happening on your street. Right now - I can
The Key That Opens Every Door You’ll Ever Want To Open
What’s missing from the centre of this diagram? What is the one key that opens every door you’ll ever want to open? What on earth could possibly make us better at business and work, whilst also helping us with health and fitness, plus our relationships? What is this magical panacea? I’ve alluded to this magical key in many of our frameworks we discuss here
Are you a Renaissance Person?
We should all ask what we want to do with our lives. We should all ask who we want to be. But we should not expect to find one single and simple answer to that question. I can’t think of anything worse. Why should you be only one thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ng9OduLP6c The pressure you might feel to be just ‘one thing’ in your life and in your society is based on a very limited style of ‘Box Thinking’. We fell into, some time ago, a way of thinking about social roles that is not set in stone - but it feels like it is. Instead of
Interest Mapping
Click www.facebook.com/ads/preferences If you have Facebook, then this link communicates what Facebook thinks your interests are! If you find them funny, feel free to post them and tag @with_joewehbe with #interestmapping. But the real question is, are you going to let others, be they friends, family or social media sites - tell you what your interests are? Or are you going to craft them for yourself? Interest Mapping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1auVX6F1c Interest Mapping is a ten minute exercise that helps you unlock the potential of your life, by revealing to you the things you can most passionately and intrinsically work on. Credit for it goes to my good
The Pirate Who Chased The Horizon
Have you heard the one about the pirate who chased the horizon? There was once a young boy from a small coastal village, who used to dance and play From the moment he could walk and talk, skip and jump, the young boy found a love for the sea. He would take his friends on small boat rides in the creek, imagining brave adventures, singing and dancing along the way. And everyone in the village celebrated in particular this young boy boy because he had a gift for sailing. They told him that he would change the maps of the world, that he
The Answer To Your Question Is… IT DEPENDS
If you're reading this you've probably asked me, Joe, a very simple question. Well, at least it seems like a very simple question. But instead of a simple answer, I've sent you this instead. Questions Like
Love can be a One-Way Street, but not Respect.
There was once an old man who lived in a cottage on the outskirts of town. And let me tell you, the old man was a bastard. He worked his way into a wheelchair by neglecting his health, and demanded everything of everyone. Most of all his son, who came by everyday to bring his elderly father fish and bread. And almost everyday the old man would have something negative to say. “You’re late” “You were supposed to bring me rye, not plain” “You were supposed to bring salmon, not tuna”. “You’re not looking well boy. You’re looking unhealthy, overweight and sluggish. Doesn’t that wife feed you?” “You’re