Spice up your life

Tonight I watched Misstress of Spice, a new movie starring reigning Bollywood queen, Aishwarya Rai and American actor, Dylan McDermott. South Africa’s top movie critic, Barry Ronge, gave it a scathing review you can read here. I still think it’s a good movie with fantastic visuals and also a lot of fantasy. It’s playing at…

 

Pole dancing

I walked into a pole dancing class with my associate Dr Elna McIntosh last Wednesday. I was pleasantly surprised. And thought I may upset the women. It turned out they were worried about whether I was embarrassed. I don’t get embarrassed easily any more 😉 Well, she teaches a women’s group for 6 weeks, and…

 

How to use Social Proof to improve your Dating

Dr Robert Cialdini wrote a book called Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. One of the weapons of influence and core principles in this book is “Social Proof”. Wikipedia defines it as “a psychological phenomenon which occurs in ambiguous social situations when people are unable to determine the appropriate mode of behaviour. Making the assumption that…