“It’s nice to have a little help, but we often resent when someone else tries to do it all for us. Each individual wants to make their own dreams a reality. If someone hands you the whole thing on a silver platter, they gift you the result, but rob you of the accomplishment. Remember this …
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Fed up with feedback?
Transforming feedback to actionable insight Feedback often shows up like a lump of coal in a clean room – unwelcome and annoying. Here’s what we need to do to help us get to actionable feedback – (1) Acknowledging that all feedback is between 1% and 99% true. It is our responsibility to figure out what …
A Little Help
“It’s nice to have a little help, but we often resent when someone else tries to do it all for us. Each individual wants to make their own dreams a reality. If someone hands you the whole thing on a silver platter, they gift you the result, but rob you of the accomplishment. Remember this …
Use our intelligence and work together to solve our common problems
The wisdom of President Lincoln: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
“customer behaviour science”
The genius of modern day guilt based marketing and basis of “customer behaviour science”. This from Seth Godin: “ Comfort and convenience For the last thirty years, the easiest shortcut has been convenience. If a marketer or a politician or an institution wants to gain acceptance, make it convenient. Tim Wu has pointed out that …
How to criticize something you disagree with
How to criticize something you disagree with, Here are social psychologist Anatol Rapoport’s rules for criticizing something: You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.” You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are …
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Try this simple strategy to feel organized – Thanks Recomendo
Simple strategy for cleaning The next time you have a big mess to clean up try “the pile method”. The pile method is when you collect all the stuff that needs to be put away in one giant pile, and then sort those things — like with like — into smaller piles, and put those …
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Truth
“Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.” – Winston Churchill
And what is so good about vaccines??
Complacency and Ignorance are humanities biggest enemies. We cannot sit on our laurels and expect the future to be the same as the past. We owe renewed vigilance to the next generation. Or we will disappear like all life forms. Please read this history lesson provided by Peter H. Diamandis, MD: The Eradication of Smallpox: …
Love What You Do
Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello calls you to find what grips your soul: “You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it …