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 […]
1,000-Night Reading Program For Writers (Video)
Lockdown has allowed me to return to my favourite reading program: The Bradbury Trio. In this short video, I tell you all about the best reading program for writers and recommend specific resources so you can get started right away. 1,000-Night Reading Program For Writers Feeling up for the reading program? Let me know how […]
Never Break The Chain
I tear through familiar foliage. Off the path, past green bowls nets, through an ivy-framed fir-fringed portal, and out onto the wide planes of Primrose Hill, BT Tower glittering through the mid-morning mist. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s narration of Anna Karenina, not the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation splayed open at page one-hundred-and-fifty back on my bedside table, […]
Books That Changed My Life: The Millionaire Fastlane (Video)
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.
Books That Changed My Life: The Five Love Languages (Video)
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 […]
Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Tissue’ Poem Analysis (Video)
‘Tissue’ by Imtiaz Dharker is the most feared poem in the GCSE Power and Conflict Anthology. But it happens to be my favourite poem out of the whole collection! And that’s saying something because the anthology has a stellar line-up. Some of my other personal favourites include Ted Hughes’ Bayonet Charge, Robert Browning’s My Last […]
How To Structure Your Studies + Sample Schedule (Video)
The best way to structure your studies actually leaves you studying for less time whilst being more effective. The structure and scheduling technique I followed during my Oxford University career (and to learn Japanese, computer coding, and much more) takes advantage of a killer psychological principle known as the primacy and recency effect. I discuss […]
Podcast Programming Schedule
The thing about recording these long literary podcasts is this: They take a lot of time. I wish I had more hours in the day. But the syntopic reading, researching, speaking, editing, and producing all adds up to a lot of hours invested. So I’ve got a bunch of different shows at various stages of […]
What I’m Working On Behind The Scenes
I was scared to make this post public public. Because it’s a stake in the ground and a peek behind the curtain at my private working life. Most keep their goals fuzzy, never telling another soul, so there’s never a prospect of failure. If you don’t aim, you can’t miss. But I figured people love […]
Books That Changed My Life: Man’s Search for Meaning (Video)
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 […]
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