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“Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction”

By Phillip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, 352p Archie Cochrane was a Scottish doctor born in 1909 who pioneered medicine’s emergence as

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Were You Born with Drive or Did it Develop?

A student asked me this variation on the old nature v. nurture question recently. The short answer is that drive rarely just

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Ten Qualities of a Leader

1.) Intelligent Initiative (Anyone can yell charge, can you pick the right moment? Prepare your troops properly? Train? Motivate?) 2.) Commitment to

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More Questions from a Young Entrepreneur

What professional should be my most trusted advisor? YOU! Educate yourself! You are your most valuable resource. The buck always stops with

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What makes for a Good Real Estate Deal?

A young real estate investor occasionally queries me for advice; here is my answer to one of his questions. Which of the

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Why You Failed and They Succeeded

Some say they will believe it when they see it; Truth is that you will never SEE it until you BELIEVE it

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There is no Cure for the Facts of Life

You are aging. If you don’t exercise, you will not be as healthy as if you do sweat on occasion. Someone will

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Do You Pay Attention to You?

What do you do when you are tired? Lonely? Bored? Depressed? Frustrated? Anxious? What are your coping strategies? What or whom do

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Three Futile Strategies

We humans are often not comfortable dealing with troubling emotions. This most emphatically includes awareness around self-defeating patterns we are choosing to

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It’s Not Discipline…

It’s not discipline; it’s simply being smart about what we really want and being intelligent about how to really love and take

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Stop Feeding the Monster

Many of us have or have had situations in our life that cause us despair or anguish. Sometimes they take the form

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Getting UnHooked from a Negative Shenpa

Shenpa is a Tibetan word that literally translates as “attachment”. In the philosophy of Buddhism (see footnote) all our suffering comes from