More and more things are going my way. I put in maximum effort each time, and then I get results. The strange thing is the sense of anti-climax that occurs when I pass another goal.
At the same time, there is so much business to take care of that I don’t have time to let a brief [...]

I am getting deeper into screenwriter Joe Eszterhas‘ autobiography, Hollywood Animal. This is a story of Hungarian immigrants fleeing the post-war trauma of the Second World War for a new land that comes with its own brand of chaos.
You ever think that you have it difficult, or that there’s nothing left inside to give? That burned out [...]

Great news– Joe Calzaghe has written an autobiography entitled No Ordinary Joe. It has been released in the UK; I hope that it is a well-written account with an inside track on his career: “As reticent outside the ring as he is remarkable once he steps inside, for the first time Calzaghe reveals his fears [...]

Were I in charge of meting out discipline in any organization (school, corporations, prison, etc), I would make wrongdoers read Peter Richardson’s book Fast Forward: Organizational Change In 100 Days to punish them. A few pages in, I see a trend here: identifying successful examples of corporate change, formulating semi-original theories to explain them, and then illustrating said theories with asinine [...]

It may seem obvious, but when people do something that elicits praise, they soak up the limelight; conversely, when they do something that reflects poorly, blame is displaced onto others.
The thing that really got me thinking today was this: What about those situations where we deserve the blame for not performing well? I was talking [...]

Here’s a quick question that I just want to throw out there: How many times have you rewatched the same baseball or basketball game? I’m not talking about catching the replays on TSN; I’m talking about digging into your stack of VHS tapes for a classic game starring Jordan or Bird and watching every minute [...]

Right now, the publishing course I am taking is taught by Sam Hiyate, a former publisher, among other job titles. He runs The Rights Factory, a Toronto-based literary agency.
You have no idea how refreshing it is to be surrounded by ordinary people looking to get into the book industry. Everyone seems passionate and easy-going. There [...]

Just a quick note– I had virtually no training for this event; I estimated that it would take me 1 hour to complete. My individual results are here.