February 2016

28 Feb

How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything

by Jeremy Chance

One of my mentors, Brendan Nicholls, was incredibly circuitous in the way he assessed a new business partner. He was driven by a fractal idea that goes like this:

“How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything”

FM said it in a different way:

“If you apply the principle to the carrying out of one evolution, you have learned the lot.”

What does this mean?

22 Feb

Hell Is Heaven Calling – It’s All Been A Big Misunderstanding

by Jeremy Chance

When your biz goes AWOL, when there’s no money to pay your rent, when your inbox has another email from an unhappy student, when you’re partner keeps asking you when are you going to get a real job? When all that is happening, when you are in despair, lost, depressed, confused – this is hell.

Or is it?

Let’s look at pain from the point of view of neuroscience – yes, let’s get off the spiritual train for a minute and jump down into little contested facts about the physiology of movement.

What is the function of pain? Is it friendly or unfriendly?

15 Feb

79 Is the New Fat

by Jeremy Chance

Funny how the mind works...

For years, when I hit 85kg I’d think:

“Opps. You’re getting fat Jerry. Pay more attention to that.”

And the inevitable discipline would be initiated until I was down to a decent 83kg.

Now my trigger is 79kg. That’s my new fat.

It’s taken a loooooong time to get there. Along the way I discovered it’s most NOT about what I eat – I haven’t actually changed much of that. I still have two eggs on toast. By one toast now, not two.