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if you're still visiting me here, you really should go to www.stuart-tan.com.

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Are we really losing critical ability? Edward Tenner, as I read from Google’s search engines, is an independent writer. While his page turns up first on Google, he complains in his book “Our Own Devices”, that students are less teachable and less critical due to search engines. Now, being an interested search engine user and teacher of optimization techniques, I looked at is

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Wow! An exhilarating ride – and Whoosh 18 is over. Yes, this is the 18th batch of people we’ve trained and cared for and helped to develop. As part of the training, we also know that they will continue to create wonderful changes in their life and the people around them. So here’s to Whoosh 18, wishing you a great journey ahead.

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As usual, Zora whom I mentioned in my previous post (you can visit her site to get a feel for NLP in a different language… haha) and I have this weird connection. She was reading the pirated version of “Master Your Mind Design Your Destiny” that for some strange reason was translated into Czech and is being retailed in Belgrade without our permission, then she realizes I&#8217

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Ever lost something and found yourself aggravated? Well, that seems to be a human tendency. When we lose things, we seem to want them back. When we have them, we seem to never cherish them. What will you lose, if you don’t decide what you should cherish and value? Because if you don’t cherish it, you will lose it forever. But if you have lost it after you learnt to cherish it, then

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Woah… I was looking out for my blogs in the Blogosphere and realized that I had been featured on Blogsearchengine.com. It’s cool! Talk about raising the bar, huh. Now I HAVE to do more of those therapeutic metaphors…

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In case you weren’t aware, there’s a competition up at www.arenawp.com. It’s one of the hottest of the season, and people are pouring in their entries because of prizes that are being sponsored. The great news is that I’ve officially been accepted as the First Prize donor. If any of you are interested to participate, you better hurry down. Wordpress is primarily a PHP

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Ok – this is a tough thing to do for most people, but I’ve just come out from training the Normal Academic students at Macpherson Secondary school, and I trust that they need some of this as well. It’s not just because they are from the Normal Academic stream that I want to write this, it just so happens that I believe every 15 year old teenager ought to learn how to master

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In case some of you are wondering how come I have had little activity on some of my sites, it’s because I’ve been heavily working on my marketing strategy for the new Superkids Learning Centre that’s located along Serene Centre. It’s been a pain doing research on all the competitors because they just don’t have it right. I’ve always believed in making sure

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I got a comment listed by Madskrews, and was just wondering how I ought to reply to the mail. Obviously, Madskrews, you say that you have an issue expressing yourself. It’s probably not about expression – it’s probably about your emotional state. For instance, you might find that your buttons get pushed when someone ‘violates’ your space, the things that are

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I just got off an excruciating journey by car (it was in a proton Gen-2) and luckily, I'm still alive! I'll be leading the Malaysia iag this time and there are a number of interesting new things I am teaching this round. Anyway the bummer is internet connection Is not working and I have resorted to GPRS to blog...

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I just completed a series of trainings in schools and in corporations that got me thinking – in reality, we are all extremely pampered and lazy individuals, and without an external object of competition, without a group of people pushing us on, we’ll never move forward. This is the reality of goal setting. The truth is, I don’t believe anyone can do it on their own, as a

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Watch our favorite action heroes at it! When they meet their foes, they literally put their skills to the test… Spidey slams Doc Ock into the wall! Neo bashes Agent Smith so hard he flies through the building! Batman lands his knee in the criminal’s gut with a thud! Smashing heroes with one exception – they are fiction and so are their enemies. What a better way to talk a

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I started to realize the value to taking stock. It’s like how a department store sometimes closes for a stock take in order to ensure that everything is up to speed. You find out what’s missing, and strange additions in the back of the closet… I know that everyone needs some kind of feedback, but I believe the best kind of feedback you can have is the kind you give yourself.

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I encountered challenge of a slightly different kind in Temasek Secondary School, but it was with great teamwork with fellow trainer Ramesh Muthusamy. I suppose having to take all the technical segments was really quite a drain.. :p thankfully, the students had learnt to have a mind of their own and eventually propelled themselves forward. Here are the photos... HEY TEMASEK SEC 4N, 4U, 4I of

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Here's an interesting shot I got as I was heading up to a school training. I guess it almost signifies the start of a new journey! Everyone is on a journey of significance. And a significant journey it will be, as long as our direction is set properly. Always be mindful of your purpose and direction.

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Today marks the start of an extremely pressuring period for me. I start off today at Temasek Secondary School, followed by the kids camps for the next few days, then I go back to Macpherson Secondary the following week, and then I get hit by POE module 2. Immediately after that, I’m on to in-camp training… talk about serious damage, man! Anyhow, I hope to be able to do something

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Giving up is really a sign of weakness, or is it? I’ve seen situations where people bow under pressure to do the things that they normally wouldn’t do. This is about being cornered and having nowhere left to go. It’s a tremendous force that even Sun Tzu, the great general, talked about in the Art of War. By destroying all options, you end up forcing people to think you will

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I read a newspaper article today that really freaked me. It was the guy who was torturing cats, and there was this grisly photo of a kitten with a protruding eyeball! What kind of sick, deranged person does this, I’m not sure. But it certainly tells me that it is not acceptable. I think hundreds of people will agree with me that you treat all living things with kindness and respect. After

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It’s an interesting insight I gained recently about the way I have focused on going “out there” to accomplish many things. Many of the things that I do, I take it upon myself to look back and ask – did I accomplish what I set out to do. But most of the time, I realize it isn’t in the doing itself that makes me feel good – it’s in the realizing that what

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Never thought this would be a Rule for Living, huh! But Learning Rapidly is one of the most important skills required of you as a human being. Imagine we forgot everything we learnt. We’d be worst than in the Stone Ages! No fire, no inventions, etc. I think my greatest advantage is my ability to learn rapidly. I can literally dive into a field of expertise and start gaining the

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I can’t really emphasize this enough. Appreciation gives the recipient energy, but more importantly, when you give appreciation, that gives you energy. It gives you a moment to think about how much you really know the other person in the first place. For instance, I often write notes to my employees. And if I haven’t, it’s because I know I haven’t had the chance to

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Who doesn’t have emotional baggage? I think everyone has their own set of problems, and to you, your problems are always going to be the biggest. The most important thing is to start to consider what to do instead of what not to do. I’m not sure how close any of you have been to severe depression, when you felt like giving things up all together. I’ve been there, and

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Commitment? Sounds like a bad word to many people, but it is one of those things that stops you in your tracks if someone asks you “are you committed to this”. Why? Because it is a very tall order, and people are expecting something from you if you make a commitment. I’ve known commitment to be a powerful resource as well as a theme of success. In life, we also expect people

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