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What Successful Entrepreneurs Actually Have in Common (It's Not What You'd Guess)
A while back, I set out to answer a question that had been bothering me: what do genuinely successful entrepreneurs actually have in common? Not the surface stuff — not "hard work" or "vision" or any of the words that show up on a motivational poster. The actual, underlying thing. So I did what an NLP modeller does. I found people who were operating at a level I wanted to understand, and I interviewed them — not about their businesses, but about their minds. I asked them to t

Darren Shaw
Sep 43 min read
Who's Driving Your Brain? A 5-Minute Way to Find Out
There's a question I like to open with, because it sounds simple and almost never is: Who's driving your brain? Not in a philosophical sense. Practically. Right now, something is directing your attention. You might be doing it on purpose. Something else might be pulling it somewhere without your permission. Most of the time, honestly, it's both — and you don't notice which one is in charge until you stop and check. The labels we reach for When something isn't working, we tend

Darren Shaw
Aug 143 min read


The Art of Stacking Realities: A Guide to Gentle Hypnotic Overload
In the world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Ericksonian hypnosis, "reality" isn’t a fixed destination; it’s a map we build using our own perceptions. Most of us live within a "hypnotic reality" that is often limited by our conscious beliefs and past experiences. To facilitate deep change, a practitioner must often bypass these conscious limitations. One of the most elegant ways to do this is a technique called stacking realities.

Darren Shaw
Jun 153 min read


Coaching artists since 2008 ;)
DVS MC from one of #London's key #DnB #promotions from 2005 -2010 - 'RollerCoaster' DVS brought us in to his RollerCoaster brand and promoted us like #headline acts from the #beginning, putting us on prime time sets with headline #djs and #mcs all because he believed in us. He also held weekly RollerCoaster #Team #meetings at the #DogStar in #Brixton and we used to go there and talk about drum n bass life, the #scene, the ups, the downs but most of all we used to #focus on t

Darren Shaw
Apr 16, 20181 min read
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