Student of Life
We will give you suggestions for tailoring you ideas in a way that makes them more creative and more effective with your audience. We’ve created our checklist of six principles for precisely this purpose. But isn’t the use of a template or a checklist confining? Surely we’re not arguing that a “color by numbers” approach [...]
Many things people strive for are actually byproducts of what the real goal should be. But by focusing on the byproduct instead of the goal, the desired byproduct is ever elusive. Let’s look at a few examples: Happiness The real goal is finding activities you’re passionate about and consistently engaging in them. That definition skews [...]
A pheonemna that really interests me is when advice from smart people clashes and there appears to be a contradiction. However I don’t think there is actually a contradiction. Usually the contradiction can be resolved in one of 3 ways: 1) One or both people are wrong 2) They are actually both right, but they [...]
Most people like to create the perception of having it all figured out. Most people have duck syndrome. These are people who look calm on the surface but are paddling furiously just to stay afloat. It’s important to be able to present yourself well, but I find the paddling much more interesting. How do you [...]
Lessons in Survivial an article than ran in Newsweek details an experiment run at military training camp that explains scientifically why Special Forces units are able to bounce back faster than ordinary soldiers. The study shows that their bodies are simply genetically better suited for enduring and recovering from high pressure, high stress situations. Morgan [...]
See the original post here. What motivates people is something that interests me. I do not think reactivity is the core of innovation, but I do think it plays a notable role. All areas of life bleed into one another and shade them accordingly. Sectors of life don’t exist in isolation. In rereading my post [...]
See update to this post. It seems many people’s innovative drive come from a reactive desire to prove themselves. They try to prove, often to the opposite sex, that they are someone worth knowing by showing they are extremely competent in some unrelated discipline like science or technology. It pains me to see people with such a distorted sense of [...]
