Archive for October, 2006

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Lessons from Talladega Nights for Guys

Tonight I watched Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, a new Will Ferrell movie. I really enjoy his films because its movies for guys, with humour for guys. And it was hilarious, on par with Anchorman. Will Ferrell’s dry humour is not for everybody but the physical comedy makes up for that.

Now this movie [...]

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Male Pride and Female Prejudice

This is an article I discovered listening to a Tom Leykis show from 10 January 2006.
Male Pride and Female Prejudice

By JOHN TIERNEY, New York Times
When there are three women for every two men graduating from college, whom will the third woman marry?
This is not an academic question. Women, who were a minority on campuses a [...]

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Single Mothers Friend or Foe?

A few years ago I dated a single mother. And it was actually great because she shipped the kids off to her mother and they never impacted on our time together. And in the end I pressured her to spend more time with them. This led to an amicable split. Subsequently I had another encounter [...]

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Would you rather be Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?

I would rather be Steve Jobs because he’s so much cooler, so much happier, so much more inspiring. He’s Harvard University commencement address I wrote about here, is one of the deepest messages I’ve ever read and the way that Jobs described his life into three concicse lessons is powerfull and potent. One some websites [...]

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Free Hug Campaign

I received an email out of the blue from a life coach, Jeannette Maw, I contacted last year when I was going through an introspective period. Her core teaching is the Law of Attraction, a universal law that is the way the universe operates whether we believe it or not. And only now am I [...]

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Badboy on Being Honest

I know it’s hard to say what you really think. This is because everything we say first goes through our logical filter which screens out what is smart to say, or not smart to say. Usually that filter develops in puberty and is created by societal pressure. You must learn to think for yourself and [...]