Mindset Africa lab

To make significant progress in life we need to learn from the mistakes of others. Simply repeating mistakes of past generations is foolish. There are things I wish I knew when I moved to Australia, or at least things I wish I had taken the time to learn or contemplate. In this episode we dive into some of the beneficial traits or lessons we need to learn to make descent progress in another culture

Lets face, the world view of Africa is completely different to that of the world. It’s like the continent and its people think completely differently from everyone else. In this episode we look at how that difference is creating the results we see today.

No man is an island, there is a lot of truth in that. We as humans are social creatures so isolation whether deliberate or not is counterintuitive to our nature

I am sure we can all agree there is a lot of noise in the world right now, so much news, so much happening on social media and its hard to remain focused on what’s the most important, the signal. How do we ignore all the noise and learn to identify the signals and what’s important for us as Africans

Every great company markets itself. Every great country markets itself. Africa does not manage its image nor does it market itself, thats a big problem.

Africans are perhaps the most religious right now, but this comes at a cost, what is the psychological cost of this practice?

We’ve all heard of the African time phenomenon. Is it simply a matter of tardiness? Or is there a deeper reason why Africans cannot keep time? It’s not a straight forward answer but it will surprise you-

How well do you know yourself? Are you as authentic to yourself as you think? We all carry our blind spots with us, most often its the people closes to us who see these blind spots and if we are lucky we have people in our lives to tell us the truth if we veer off our course

Welcome to 2021, as we set goals and set our aspirations for a brighter and better future, here is to a more hopeful future

Forget the inner conversations for now, what are the outward conversations we are having? What ideas do we discuss in our circles? Do we discuss and share ideas or do we compare and discuss people? I suggest we stop discussing people and start discussing ideas