Category: Myth Busting


  • Why you should learn an instrument

    What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Galileo Galilei have in common? Yes, they are considered to be great thinkers, inventors, artists, ahead of their time maybe. But what else? They all played an instrument.

  • The huge capital myth (and 21 online biz ideas)

    Two of your friends get together and you thought they never liked each other. Somebody gets promoted and you thought management saw them as disruptive. Someone you know always seems to turn everything  s/he touches into a success, even with little education or prior experience. Do you sometimes feel you’ve been missing something,  or is…

  • 4 rules every creative should know

    If you are a creative, I bet you’re familiar with the following scenario. You’re staring at the screen or blank piece of paper,  but your brain isn’t coming up with the goods. The screen/paper is staring back at you. You hold your head in desperation, even massage it, as if it were Aladdin’s magic lamp! In today’s post, I…

  • The myth of positive thinking debunked

    Say what? “How could I write such nonsense?”  I hear you questionning. Bear with me. Let me explain. I am not saying that positive thinking (or negative for that matter) doesn’t affect your actions, life or results. Far from it. It definitely matters how you think. Trevor Maber illustrates this well in this Ted-ed clip.…

  • The overnight success myth debunked

    “Right time, right place” We have grown to love having everything easy . We get our food from the supermarket shelves. If we choose to, we can just zap it in the microwave, or even have it cooked and delivered to us. Our clothes are washed for us at the press of a button. We…

  • The “Updated or Outdated” quiz

    So…. Are you outdated or updated in your thinking? Is your knowledge about productivity,  creativity and entrepreneurship helping your results or hampering them? Take the quiz then prepare to have 5 common myths in the aforementioned fields busted in front of your eyes in a couple of posts. But for now… 5 questions, 5 minutes!…

  • The silver bullet myth debunked

    It’s an ever changing, result driven, productivity obsessed world… We constantly need to adapt…Double quick! How do we cope ? By using shortcuts, making quick judgements, resorting to “life hacks” sometimes. This is actually an instinctive thing our brain does, but at the risk of not always being accurate. Experience your brain doing it while…

  • Why we need to update our thinking periodically

    Popular beliefs about the brain that have been debunked.