Month: October 2023
Chapter 20: Change Mindset
There is a place torture and suffering; Within whose inescapable borders, millions of people are ensnared, trapped. A place where hope dies, ambitions wither, dreams fade to nothingness. A treacherous...
Chapter 19: Critical Thinking
Do you remember your school teacher asking you to read a book, and then review it, giving your thoughts and opinions about it? Do you remember hating that? I do. It’s not that I did not enjoy reading ...
Chapter 18: I Love a Good Story
I love this example of Doug Dietz because for me this is one of the best examples I have ever come across of the interplay between humans and technology. It also demonstrates how we as human beings ca...
Chapter 17: Fixing a Complex Problem
Let’s analyse what happened in the story in the previous chapter, step by step. Step 1 – Critical Thinking: When Doug saw the child reaction to his MRI scanner, he was justifiably shocked. He st...
Chapter 16: The Terrifying MRI Scanner
Now we get to the juicy part, the core of the book, where we discuss the 6 power skills. I think the best way to describe them is via a real-life case study where the skills are actually put into acti...
Chapter 15: Let me Reiterate
Let me reiterate what I’ve already said in this chapter, and I’m doing this for emphasis because it is critically important to me that you understand what I am trying to say. That you stop...
Chapter 14: From Abuse to Success
In the early days of IT varsity, there was a young lady who enrolled for one of our courses. She was a single mum whose name was Thembi, and she lived in abject poverty in a township in Johannesburg. ...
Chapter 13: How MJ Launched the VCR
In the early 1980s, the world witnessed an unusual phenomenon that would forever change the music and technology industries. It all began with the release of Michael Jackson’s song “Thrill...
Chapter 12: Revolt of the Luddites
Let’s take a trip back in time. In the early 1800’s, the Jacquard loom was invented, which was a machine that made fabrics manufacturing much faster and cheaper, and enabled factories to produce fabri...
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