Transform Your Life

Pollard's original insights

Big points in life Free options Informed mutual champions Leverage and deliberate practice Leverage and time management Leveraging others' life capital Life capital Lollapaloser One life-enriching conversation per month Pollard’s Paradox Qualified deal flow The financial capital analogy The tradability of options

Proven ideas from the experts

Adler’s “What of it” Bennis & Biederman's great groups Cialdini’s psychology of persuasion Covey’s emotional bankaccount Covey’s sharpen the saw Covey’s “win-win” mindset Fisher’s scuttlebutt Graham’s margin of safety Granovetter’s strength of weak ties Johari Window Lynch’s 2 minute monologue Maister’s law of service Munger's forwards & backwards thinking Munger’s mental models O’Kelly’s concentric circles Reichheld’s ultimate question Schwartz’ manange your energy not time Seligman’s flexible optimism Seligman’s positive psychology Senge’s definition of failure Senge's dialogue versus discussion Surowiecki’s wisdom of crowds Taleb’s black swan & serendipity Taleb's scandal of prediction Wegner's transactive memory Whyte & Janis' groupthink

Inspirational stories to challenge you

Bono Brother Colm O’Connell Colleen Barrett Dr Raff Gene O'Kelly Hajeera’s US$50 mcirofinance loan Heart patients Richard Feynman Tiger Woods Transplant recipients

Growing your Life Capital as

an Actuary a budding Entrepreneur