Tag Archives: Ireland

Embrace your weirdness

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain Sing it, Mark. It used to bug me when people called me weird. They called me that when I went to live 4,000 miles away from home, just to be closer to my favorite basketball [...]

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How to travel the world as a full-time language hacker: An interview with Irish polyglot Benny Lewis

Benny Lewis is quite the story. Like myself, he grew up in Ireland and was never much good at languages in school. At age 21, he spoke just English fluently. Fast forward several years and Benny now speaks eight (yes, eight!) languages fluently, and is competent in many more. He helps other people reach rapid [...]

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Disrupting the Rabblement

RSS and e-mail readers, please click here to watch the video that accompanies this post. This is the new thing now. I’ve rebranded ndoherty.com so it’s more in line with my mission. My aim is to get people thinking for themselves and following their dreams, rather than going with the flow and settling for the [...]

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How to save Ireland

RSS and e-mail readers, please click here to watch the video that accompanies this post. My three-year stint in the United States has come to an end. I’ll be back in Ireland by the time you read this post. I’m staying for a few months, getting my business up and running, then moving to Spain [...]

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Materialism

The things you own, end up owning you. That quote is from Fight Club, one of my all-time favorite movies. It sums up a lesson I first learned about six years ago, when I was stuck working in a department store in Ireland, having dropped out of college and dreaming of one day living and [...]

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