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By Scott Scanlon curated from hbr.org -

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So in looking at successful people and what they do HBR has a good piece that serves as a guide post…

  1. Get specific.
  2. Seize the moment to act on your goals
  3. Know exactly how far you have left to go
  4. Be a realistic optimist
  5. Focus on getting better, rather than being good
  6. Have grit
  7. Build your willpower…
    Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren’t sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail.The intuitive…

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We had to highlight this really great post from James Altucher on how to have great ideas. This post is not about coming up with ideas, it’s more about how to take or think about your ideas. Here’s the four main steps he goes through in the post:

  • STEP 1: WRITE…
    (good ideas can take various forms)

    I want you to be an idea machine. For the past 20 years all I’ve done is come up with ideas. Most of them bad, horrible. Ugly, stupid. I got thrown out of graduate school for having too many bad ideas. I wrote…

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People who talked to themselves were able to find items more quickly, according to a recent study by Daniel…

People who talked to themselves were able to find items more quickly, according to a recent study by Daniel Swingley at University of Wisconsin and Gary Lupyan at University of Pennsylvania.

Flickr / JaakoSee Also Actually It Sucks To Be A Woman Or A Child In A ShipwreckAmericans Are…

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This is a great graphic and post, click thru to read.

Note: This is part of a series of posts explaining the individual parts of The Innovation Matrix.See this post for a description of the full model and what can be done with it.

Innovation Competence is the second axis of The Innovation Matrix.

One of the key insights…

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These are the best of times for personal branders; these are the worst of times for personal branders. Far from mere Dickensian wordplay, I believe this statement reflects a reality that old hands in the business will be quick to recognize and happy to give their assent to. Newcomers may…

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By Scott Scanlon curated from creativitypost.com - - Image courtesy of creativitypost.com

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Can the way people we deem geniuses help us better understand how to think? That’s the central question here in this story from the CreativityPost. Here’s the high level tips with some of our thoughts mixed in:

  • GENIUSES LOOK AT PROBLEMS IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS- how often do you look at…
    Thumbnail descriptions of the thinking strategies commonly used by creative geniuses.

    How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced “Mona Lisa,” as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einsteins, Edisons,…

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Very good mission statement. It reads…

This is your life. Do what you love and do it often. If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like you job quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life,…

While reading Inc. Magazine, I discovered Holstee’s manifesto. Holstee designs and sells “mindful” products. Their manifesto is an inspiring mission statement for their business and more importantly, for anyone’s life.

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Great advice here! Cut out TV and do something truly amazing. What are some amazing things you could do?

  • Write a book
  • Write a short story
  • Write for future grand kids
  • start a company
  • design a product
  • solve a problem you’ve had for years
  • do one of those things on the bucket list
  • do the thing you’ve always…
    According to Nielsen, the average American spends 158 hours each month watching television(!!).

    That’s 1,896 hours – 79 full days – per year in front of the boob tube.

    In a typical working lifetime from age 20 to age 65, based on these stats, the average American spends…

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SCAMPER is a checklist of nine creative-thinking principles based on the notion that everything new is some addition or modification of something that already exists. You take a subject and change it into something else. (E.g., drilled petroleum becomes chemical feedstock becomes synthetic rubber becomes automobile tires. Natural gas becomes…

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