I’m sure I can think of many more than eight reading challenges. But let’s get the ball rolling, shall we? If you think of any ways we can expand upon these active reading techniques, drop a comment below. 1 – The Footnote Follow-up Here is one of the most beneficial mindsets you can adopt for […]

A popular YouTuber and an influencer with 9.5 million Instagram followers grin into the camera. They brandish fistfuls of twenty dollar bills. The total amount is two-hundred-and-fifty bucks. A toothless homeless man looks bewildered behind them. The YouTuber endeavours to put his arm around the homeless and points into the camera. ‘Tell them what we’re […]

Every day is short story month. For me, at least. I’ve been following Ray Bradbury’s assignment of reading one short story, one poem, and one essay every night for years. I love short stories. Good ones, like Neil Gaiman says in his MasterClass module on writing short fiction, are like close-up magic tricks. Short story […]

The best thing about lockdown is the extra reading time. My reading has always been ambitious, but when there’s literally nothing else to do my reading skyrockets. So here’s what I’m loving and looking forward to reading in May 2020. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy  The biggie! I wanted to order a copy for my […]

The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco gives you the blueprint to earning f-you money. The commandments are as follows: Control Entry Need Time Scale I go into what these mean in this 4-minute video book review: You can read The Millionaire Fastlane here.

Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages is responsible for being the book that most positively changed my behaviour and interpersonal skills. The biggest thing The Five Love Languages taught me is that there are lots of different ways to show love. Just because someone doesn’t use the words “I love you”, doesn’t mean they aren’t screaming […]

I’ve done my part to spread the word about Viktor Frankl’s great work Man’s Search for Meaning. I wrote my first book review in 2016, which led to: People emailing me every week thanking me for turning them onto the work People ripping off my book review and claiming my words as their own  More people […]