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Getting Past the Past
The mental game is a huge part of success in life. A little bit of self-confidence can take you a long way. Much confidence comes…
February 24, 2010
PopCap: Big Brother Can Be a Bully
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Society should not pick on the weak or the less fortunate and most certainly we should not allow them to…
February 19, 2010
Learned Optimism and Explanatory Styles
“Learned Optimism” is a book by Martin Seligman that I read about 15 years ago and have since counted among my favorites. Dr. Seligman, who…
February 9, 2010
“Psycho-Cybernetics,” Maxwell Maltz, and Self Image
“Psycho-Cybernetics” is a book written in 1960 by plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz. Dr. Maltz stumbled onto an interesting phenomenon: while in most cases “a person…
January 29, 2010
Leadership and Perceptions of Power
“People impute all kinds of things to leaders, and sometimes it is thinking of them as disproportionately powerful and imagining them to be much more…
January 22, 2010
The Perils of Ageism
Your beliefs strongly affect your reality. To a large extent, in ways small and large, our beliefs create our reality. How we see the world…
January 20, 2010
Experts Often Aren¹t (Take 2)
Insiders in a field know that frequently there is more room for professional judgment in certain pronouncements than the general public realizes. Often that is…
January 18, 2010
“Old Habits Bedevil”
What creates the motivation for change? Popular mythology states that “near death” experiences create meaningful life changes. Yet a February 7, 2009, New York…
January 15, 2010
What Difference Do You Make?
There is a motivational website I bookmarked called Think TQ. I visit the site regularly because it has a message of the day, which frequently…
January 14, 2010
Exceed Expectations
Someone once asked me what goals should be set for a new hire. My answer was simple: – Exceed expectations. – Impress me. –…
January 13, 2010
Experts Often Aren’t: Expertise (and Experts) Are Over Rated
How did we get in this financial mess? How were we led over an economic cliff? Was it because we trusted the wrong experts? Or…
January 12, 2010