Author: Lem Usita
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You Either Copy or Innovate
Of course I heard this listening to something today. The context of the conversation where I heard this had to do with mobile phones – most specifically, the iPhone. I don’t know which side of the conversation you sit in, but they all seemed to think that everyone else copies…
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Death to an Identity Feature
I have been listening to a lot of Cornel West lately. What a thinker. He talks about so many subjects, but I really like his concept of how we must face the death that is present in our lives. He is not talking about death in the end of our…
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Choose Yourself
It’s a Seth Godin line. I love his thinking on this. If you want to read a post about it – check it out here. We are culturally programmed to wait till we are chosen. That was the way it was a decade ago. Not any more. You don’t need…
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No Friends
So I wrote a post yesterday about The Friends I Eat With, and what I mean by that. I have friends. I make friends fairly easily. It’s part of my personality. Maybe I’m just not that scary. I saw something tonight – someone else’s post of something – that…
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Friends I Eat With
…….. are the really, really good friends. Have you ever heard of Dunbar’s Number? Here’s another post about it. Friends that I eat with are friends. We have all sorts of friends on Facebook and Twitter. Thousands of friends – thousands of followers. Do we even know what a friend…
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Think About Learning
I love listening to professors. I’m a professor. I don’t mind if people listen to me or not, but I love to listen to professors. More than that – I love to learn. I love learning what professors have learned and studied. I was listening to a professor share his…
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What You Recognize in Others
I tend to write many posts that have to do with this same idea of seeing in others what you see in yourself. I have written things on facebook and twitter – where my friends start to comment about how whatever they do online says alot about who they are.…
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Lem from identityspecialist.net
I am not sure if you’ve ever heard anyone be introduced by them telling you they are from their website. Maybe it’s just me and the podcasts that I listen to you, but it’s totally the thing these days. Here are some thoughts: 1. You all need a website to…
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The Peter Pan Mentality
What do you think about when you think about Peter Pan? Are you wondering what Peter Pan has to do with identity? Well, quite a bit if you think about it really. Peter Pan for most of us is a cute story that we learned when we were a kid.…
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The Value of White Space
Have you ever heard of anyone talk about the use of whitespace on webpages? Have you ever seen a website that uses whitespace strategically and smartly? Whitespace used in the right way – focuses the attention of anyone looking at it – on the things that you want to highlight.…
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The Enjoying Part of Your Brain
We all have an enjoying part of our brain. It’s the part of your brain that allows you to enjoy whatever it is that you’re doing. I think the other part of your brain is the critical part of your brain. When you’re thinking too much about something – it’s…
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Divergent Thinking
You can check out the Wikipedia page for this or listen to this Sir Ken Robinson talk about it. Definitely watch the Sir Ken Robinson talk about it. Basically, it’s the ability to see lots of possibilities. It’s seeing the question and the answers in every single possible way. It’s…
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