Category: Ideas
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Identity and Comparing Yourself
Comparing yourself is just a base action – something that we automatically and naturally do. You can’t help it. We all do it. Most times we compare ourselves to someone else that is better than us at something. You will always lose when you do. Sometimes we compare ourselves with…
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You’re Not an Expert Just Because You Read Someone’s Opinions
The truth hurts right? I once had someone call me an expert on identity. I quickly corrected them and told them that I am a specialist. I know some things, but I’m definitely no expert. I might know more than some people, but there are definitely many people that know…
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The Identity of Being Right
I have written a post about always being right. Please check out the post just to give you context for this one. Do you consume information to learn the truth or do you consume information to affirm you for being right? It’s a great question. The more you hear that…
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Email Raises Cortisol
Did you hear about this? There is a study out there that takes a look at how e mail raises your cortisol levels. What that means is that email stress you out. The study says that most people have a email window open on their computer, and they check it…
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The Cell Phone Glow
I went to a show tonight, and the doors opened an hour before so we sat there for an hour waiting for the show. It was very interesting to me to note that even though there were a few hundred people in the room. It was relatively quite. People were…
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Art is Meant to be Tested
Whether you see art as a product of our lives or an expression of it – art is meant to be tested. I guess the question is, can it really be art, if it just sits in your mind and never makes it on to the canvas? Maybe it makes…
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Cognitive Reframing
Ever heard of this? It’s a fancy way to say that you can reason your way out of anything. It means that you can change your mind and make excuses for it. It means that you rethink things to make it makes sense. Maybe it’s someone helping you understand it…
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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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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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