Jesse Meijers

Beyond proactivity: Accelerating personal development

About 5% of people on the world are proactive by nature. The other 95% are procrastinators. It is no small feat to step through procrastinating and become (more) proactive. Yet this is one of the main things that separates successful people from the rest. But that is just half of the story. Obviously the 95% of people who are not by nature proactive, should aim to become so. But proactivity alone is just the beginning. If it is not combined with thinking, it will lead to nothing.

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The Pygmalion Effect – Using Self Fulfilling Prophecies to your Advantage!

You have probably heard of the Pygmalion effect, usually called a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is used to describe the effect that when you've talked about something bad happening, that it would actually happen. The fact is, this is much closer to the truth than most people realize. And you can use this to your advantage!

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See one, do one, teach one

Recently I was talking to a friend of mine who has worked for NATO and United Nations. We got talking about learning skills and how rules of thumb which explain methods can help you in easily remembering a process to learn something. In his line of work, the method 'See one, do one, teach one' is used. This is a very good method to remember when you want to learn a skill yourself, and to remember when you are teaching someone else a skill.

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The secret ingredient for success

There is a secret ingredient that successful people have, and others lack, or don't use. This ingredient is a personality trait. One that you can learn if you are not in posession of it already. And train if it is not yet at the level it should be.

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Intrinsic motivation versus extrinsic motivation

The current economic crisis has led to a lot of new insights in how we should deal with our economy. On of those insights is that it seems that big bonuses don't seem to work well. The banks of who the top executives had huge bonuses, haven't exactly performed very well. There is a different way to get results, and would you believe me if I told you this has actually been scientifically proven and has been known for over 60 years?

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