There are no rules, you make your own rules, below are just personal experiences, adopt them, change them, create new ones, rewrite them: 1. Ignore everybody. 2. The idea does not have to be big. It just has to change the world. 3. Put the hours in and have fun. 4. If your business plan…

You want to know where do creative ideas come from, look at what people complain about. Where there is a compliant, there is an idea for a solution. Steve Jobs created the iPad because he was annoyed by how the Microsoft head of innovation he met at a party, was going on about his tablet…

Lesogana le sa eteng le nyala kgaetšedi is an African Sepedi proverb which means if you do not travel, you will marry your own sister. You want good ideas? leave home, leave the city, the province, even the country. The brain gets too comfortable in it's everyday surroundings. Being exposed to different people, cultures, environments expands your minds and knowledge. Human beings like…

My recent blog: "Where do creative ideas come from?: They are in your scrapbook" brought this response from Mutshidzi Nenzhelele. I like the analogy he uses of ideas as living spirits in the osmosis. Below is his response: What im about to write has no scientific proof nor religious proof or relevance. It is purely my…

Today marks the 22nd year of Freedom Day in South Africa. We will never forget the sacrifices and the high price that people paid for South Africa to be a constitutional democratic country. This freedom was certainly not free. Change came from people who took responsibility. Ideas don't get implemented by people who don't take responsibility. With…

If you have a thought but don't write it down, by the next morning it may be gone forever. I always carry a small notebook and make daily lists, scribble ideas and jot down thoughts. I'm used to pulling my notebook out and jotting down thoughts and observations everywhere I go. The reason we write things…

A good example is genetics. You have a mother and you have a father. You posses features from both of them, but the sum total of you is bigger than their parts. You are a remix of your mom and dad and all your ancestors. Just as you have a family genealogy, you also have…

... or are they inspired? Let's say they are stolen when they are not referenced and they are inspired when they are referenced. Every artist gets asked the question: “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers: “I steal them.” How does an artist look at the world? First, you figure out what…

We are all looking for someone to trust. People and institutions that will do what they say and say what they mean. Doctors put diplomas on the wall and wear white coats to say that you can trust them. We trust that the plane will land safely at our destination and that our laguage is…

In the pursuit of happiness, we work hard towards achieving a goal, a bonus, a degree, a dream car and house, perfect partner. But more important in our pursuit to happiness, is our happiness in the pursuit. We must not only be happy when we reach the mountain top, if we choose our mountain carefully,…

  A book is a sharable idea. A book is not the destination, but a part of the process. A book is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority.  A book is much more likely to be a way to build credibility than it is…

Octavius posts on his wall that when you have a personal problem, talk to someone, say something to someone, let it out, say it so that it doesn't burden you to a point where you end your life. Some people are not prepared to say help me. Help me requires a degree of humility. You…