In this episode Cem and Wayne interview Blessing Maregere, a multi-award winning young entrepreneur, author & inspirational speaker. He started his first business, a cleaning company, at the age of 16, which turned over £10k a month, employed 6 cleaning staff and he did it all in just 3 months. He shares with us how he did it and why … Read More
#22. Waiting For Breaking Point
In this episode Cem and Wayne discuss why so many people wait for breaking point before taking action. We also talk about the many reasons why people avoid change and how some people turn their breaking point into a catalyst for massive achievement through a rare phenomenon know as post-traumatic growth. [smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerfulnonsense/2014-06-04T01_54_20-07_00.mp3″ title=”Waiting For Breaking Point” artist=”Powerful Nonsense” color=”51d95b” … Read More
#16. DIY Education: How To Fall Back In Love With Learning
In this episode Cem and Wayne discuss why we’ve fallen out of love with education and what we can do to rekindle our natural curiosity for learning. We discuss why it’s so important to let go of our past schooling shames in order to make the most of this intellectual revolution and how self-education is key in freeing us to … Read More
New! Powerful Nonsense Podcast.
The new Powerful Nonsense Podcast is now live! Every fortnight Wayne & I will talk entrepreneurship, mindfulness and getting ahead in the digital economy. In no way do we believe we have all the answers, we just enjoy chatting about this stuff and hope that there may be some golden nuggets of information amongst our nattering that may be of … Read More
Self-Fulfilling Unemployment
Whether you’re at school, college or university it’s pretty likely you’ve been told by your teacher, parent or any other scaremonger just how difficult it will be to find a job once you leave, but can all this negativity be having a subconscious effect on our ability to actually find work? In 1968, psychologist Robert Rosenthal walked in to a … Read More
What To Do If Your Profession Can Be Programmed
Robots are and will continue stealing our jobs, period. Unfortunately, the automation of thousands of jobs worldwide is a double-edged sword, on one hand it reduces business costs and prices for consumers but on the other, it removes humans from the work force and leads to mass unemployment. In Tyler Cowens latest book Average is Over he states that, “If … Read More
Falling Off The Conveyor Belt
This week thousands of young people around the UK received their A level results and as usual the papers have been out in full patrol sharing stories about the A grade prodigies who will now go on to the worlds best universities, find their dream job and have the perfect life. On the other hand, there will also be thousands … Read More
Start Investing In Your Estate of Mind
Our minds are a fertile land waiting to be built upon, yet without the books and mortarboards the value of our lives can depreciate greatly and our capacity for growth and understanding can become extremely under utilised. Humans are composed of a series of “states of minds,” a cluster of neural firing patterns that create a persons behaviours, feelings and … Read More
8 Videos That Will Change The Way You Think About Education
A revolution in education is coming. Young people are at the heart of an economy falling away from a system that is fast becoming redundant. Part of the reason for the high unemployment rate and lack of entrepreneurship across the world can be blamed on the saturation of numb conformist workers nurtured in schools to serve the industrial economy. Millions … Read More
The University Killer: Online Peer–to-Peer Learning
According to a recent YouGov SixthSense report, the debt of UK university students adds up to nearly £20bn. Students starting university this year could end up paying a whopping £60k for their education. Having graduated myself just a few years ago, the prospect of paying three times the amount my Mum paid for her first home may have been enough to … Read More