“…And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich Nietzsche The music is your raison d’être. This is about purpose. What is your reason for living? If you have that feeling you’re wandering, just floating throughout life without …
Knowledge Vs. Wisdom
The simplest ideas ironically tend to be the most difficult to absorb and practice. Oddly, ideas that have all sorts of complexities and twists and turns are easier to grasp, because they’re often concealed underneath flashiness and coolness. For example, to say that the imagination is unlimited is quite the …
Attracting Vs. Chasing Opportunities
They say opportunity knocks only once. Then they say when one door closes, another opens. Which is right? Depends on your thinking. The first mind that believes opportunity knocks only once is thinking with scarcity while the latter has an magnetic mindset. Magnetic? What does that mean? It means you …
How Women Can Establish Intellect in College Classrooms
So imagine you have a camera or phone in the back of the class and no one notices you. You see the classroom filling up; it’s the first day. College students typically don’t walk around trying to associate with each other. Sometimes you know friends who might’ve been in a …
College-Ready Maturity
You can look up the word “maturity” in the dictionary and find many definitions. And when you hear the word you might even come up with a couple of caricatures, the kind of images that a mature person is supposed to look like. But I want to challenge the notion …
Create Your Resource Pack
All students need a resource pack. When you start school, one of the first experiences you’ll have is going to pick up your books. If you’re with parents, they might buy you pens, pencils, notebooks. Your school provides you with textbooks. If you’re in college, you just might receive the …
Invincible Mind Methods
In my previous post, I offered the position that it was possible to attain a state of mind free of self-destructive thoughts and those habitual mental tendencies that eventually result in stressing out. I described this state as being consistently “in the zone,” a permanent state of flow that keeps …
Invincible Mind for Daily Living
Undisturbed sense of peace. Calmness under pressure. Free of distress. An air of focus and precision despite what’s happening around you. In this mental state, you experience the present moment AND strategically map out your decisions to forecast your results. You become immune to distress and know how to take …
Multiple Tab Internet Browsing – The Self-Induced ADD
In the past if you remember, we had one browser on Internet Explorer. You viewed what you wanted and if you wanted to look at a new page at the same time, you had to open an entirely new browser. Then came the multi tab system. The point of this …
Studying for Exams vs Studying for Mastery
When was the last time you heard someone say they were studying? Even in middle school lingo this word appears to be near non-existent. But in order to pass your exams, especially in college, there’s still some remnant of this long-lost pastime that’s necessary. Usually, we call it the cram. …
Self-Education: Own Your Power
Welcome to Bold Mastery. This blog is disruptive. Meaning, this blog is no-nonsense and meant to shake up the way you used to think about education. It’s designed to make you feel uncomfortable if you’ve never thought this way before and, if you’re comfortable, it’s meant to motivate you to …