aka how insight training can make you a better writer Right now, all around you, millions of neurons are firing around inside approximately 7 billion of the most sophisticated organic computers this planet has to offer. These computers take on millions of tasks, running everything you do from sandwich making to driving a car, mental arithmetic to remembering pub quiz answers, regulating your internal temperature or moving vital oxygen around the body... Conscious or unconscio

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1700 degree hot coals are not designed to be a carpet to success. After the second part of Talent Campus, I stand corrected. And given I walked over them, both having been corrected and still being able to stand are impressive feats. In July I did a blog about walking over glass and the first great part of Talent Campus. http://www.alexishjwriter.com/single-post/2016/07/27/I-dare-you-to-do-better​ Clearly any sequel has to go one better, so we were told there would be a fire