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Mindfulness - More and more medical doctors are coming out in favour of meditation vs medication.

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This booked has been backed up by countless research studies, to show that those who practice mindfulness are less likely to feel depressed, stressed or anxious. Mindfulness is a simple form of mediation that brings your focus to the present moment as opposed to getting lost in thought about the past or future. It’s about switching from “doing” mode which is when you’re in autopilot for example driving your car and your thoughts wonder about other things to “being” mode which is when you’re present in the moment so when you’re driving you can hear yourself breathing, feel your hands on the steering wheel, smell the fresh air through the window and view the scenery around you.  The more you’re able to practise mindfulness you can alter the physical structure within your brain as it develops the insula (insula is the part of the brain for controlling our mental emotions) which helps you develop rational thinking. The better you are at controlling your emotions, the less li...
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Blockchain Revolution and My Own Research

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What is the Blockchain? Is a chain of blocks and each block contains some data, a hash of this block and the hash of the previous block. However the first block in a Blockchain is called the Genesis block which is the only block that does not hold a hash of the previous block. Data being as simple as user information like your name, weight, height or anything you would like. Hashing is when you input data regardless of the amount which is then put through a hash function which converts the data into an array of numbers and letters, this is called the hash value. Merkle tree is how Bitcoin and Etherum generate the hash value for the block which is when the transactions(each piece of data) in the block hash against each other to eventually get the root hash aka the hash value for the block within the Blockchain, here is a example of a Merkle tree: There are many cryptographic hash functions to hash input data however which ever one is used they must have some qualities...
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The Richest Man in Babylon

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Before the book begins it starts off with saying: “Money is governed today by the same laws which controlled it when prosperous men thronged the streets of Babylon, SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO.”  So the question is what are the simple laws to wealth.  Number 1: Learn to live upon less than you earn. No matter what you earn, pay yourself at least one-tenth. You’ll adapt and find that it won’t make a difference to your day to day life.  Number 2: Learn to seek advice from those who are competent through their own experiences to give it. In other words have a range of friends that all have different areas of expertise. This is developing you to become a person of value to the market.  Number 3: Now you have managed to save one-tenth consistently and built up a friends group who specialise in different areas. It’s time to INVEST the money and use the knowledge that has been acquired from your friends and your own studies. Ask yourself, how can I get my ...
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The Road Less Travelled "What is love? The will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing ones own or another’s spiritual growth. "

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The Road Less Travelled is written by Dr M. Scott Peck who is a well respected psychiatrist, who aims to suggest ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding.  Here are a few highlights of the book:  Section 1: Discipline -  What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Yet it is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. The minority of people who welcome and embrace the pain of problems are the ones who go on to achieve self-fulfilment and inner peace . Here are the tools of discipline to help your grow. They are explained in great depth in the book: - Delayed gratification - Acceptance of Responsibility - Dedication to the truth - Balancing  Section 2: Love -  Love provides the motive and the energy for discipline. What is love? The will to exten...
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Can't Hurt Me “It’s so easy to be great nowadays, because everyone else is weak. If you have ANY mental toughness, if you have any fraction of self-discipline; The ability to not want to do it, but still do it; If you can get through to doing things that you hate to do: on the other side is GREATNESS ”

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“When you think you’re done, you’re only at 40% of your total potential.” Goggins is the only member of the US armed forces to complete Seal training, US army ranger school and the air force tactical air controller training. He entered BUDS hell week three times in one year and completed it twice despite stress fracture and a hernia. He has served in combat in Iraq and was the bodyguard for Iraq prime minister. He has completed over 60 endurance races such as BadWater Ultra Marathon and regularly placing in the top five and taken home first place several times. He has broke the world record for the most pull ups.  In this, we will go on a journey to discover this man’s incredible life story.  Learning about his traumatic childhood and how he was overweight in his twenties. To then an amazing transformation into one of the world’s fittest soldiers, we will see what it takes to be one of the fittest people on the planet. We will find out how Goggins turned his life a...
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The Tipping Point "How little things can make a big difference"

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Malcolm Gladwell defines the tipping point for social epidemics as a combination of little things accumulating until reaching a dramatic moment when everything changes all at once. Gladwell's research shows numerous case studies of the tipping point being reached such as: - The children's program Blues Clues. - New York City crime rates. - The book called Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. - Gore Associates multi-million dollar high tech firm. - Lester Wunderland "Secret Gold Box" with Columbia Record Club Account. - The shoe brand Air Walk. - Smoking. - Paul Rever's message to the colonial militia to the approach of British Forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord. - Tom Gau financial planner motor mimicry for persuasion. The two simple questions that Gladwell answers in this book are: 1. Why is it that some ideas or behaviours or products start epidemics and others don't? 2. What can we do to deliberately to start and control...
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Jensen Button

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The story of Jensen Button is truly captivating as shows his struggles on and off the racing track from his early childhood all the way up to the end of his racing career in Formula One. Despite the book does not cover his life to the finer details of the setbacks and progressions Jensen experienced , it is still an  interesting read.  John Button the father of Jensen was heavily into racing and was sitting on a fountain of knowledge to share with his son. John always encouraged Jensen to just enjoy himself and focus on his own performance throughout his whole career, knowing that the more you do that, the better you will perform.  On Jensen 7th birthday his father brought him a Yamaha 50cc bike and he loved it from the first second, after riding for one day he was already asking his dad to take off the speed restriction. When his father took of the 20 mph restriction, the bike was able to shift to 30 mph, Jensen throttled the bike straight away and came flying...
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