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May 9, 2016

Purpose Is the New Bottom Line

Casey Gerald

After graduating from Yale, Casey Gerald and his friends wondered what would happen if, instead of “marching off in pinstripe suits to slave away in a cubicle,” they set out to the heart of America to put their MBAs to work helping entrepreneurs. The result is MBAs Across America, whose message is simple but vital: There’s a new way of changing the world, and each of us has a part to play.

In this talk, Gerald shares his storyand gives us the three aspects of this “New Playbook of Change.”

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Published on May 09, 2016 20:20

A Universe of Possibility

Rosamund stone on possibilities

The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander’s experience as conductor of the Boston[image error] Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander’s genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.

IT’S ALL INVENTED

A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One sends back a telegram saying,

SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES

The other wri...

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Published on May 09, 2016 20:00

May 8, 2016

True Creativity Is the Subconscious Mind Combined with Intuition and Rationality

Scott Barry Kaufman on creativity (1)

Thanks to advances in neuroscience, we are closer to a true definition of creativity — those seemingly inexplicable moments of clarity and invention — than ever before. Creativity is a quality of the mind, not[image error] aninherent characteristic or specific activity. Put differently, there are some very creative accountants just as there are some very uncreative painters —it all depends on the person doing the work.

So what does it take to be creative? At the very least, it takes an openness to overco...

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Published on May 08, 2016 20:20

Lessons For A New Kind Of Entrepreneur

Derek Sivers on Anything you want

You don’t need a visionary master plan, loads of funding or a brilliant team to start a business.[image error]

All you really need is GENEROSITY.

When Derek Sivers started CD Baby, he wasn’t planning on building a major business. He was a successful independent musician who just wanted to sell his CDs online. He started in 1998 by helping his friends sell their CDs too. In 2000, he hired his first employee. Eight years later, he sold CD Baby for $22 million.

Sivers didn’t need a business plan, and neithe...

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Published on May 08, 2016 20:00

May 5, 2016

LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Start Writing

Start Writing WRITING

Using a real life legal case as inspiration for a novel | BOOKS BY WOMEN

[image error] [image error] Contracts, client meetings, and talking on the phone is not something that readers want to find in a thriller. That said, one of my goals in my debut novel was to tell a compelling story while at the same time giving readers a glimpse into what it’s really like to practice law. How could I do that without boring them?

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Published on May 05, 2016 20:00

May 4, 2016

The “Power Breath” Is Better Than Deep Breathing for Relaxing Mind and Body

Power breath

Most people are familiar with the technique of taking deep inhalatio[image error]ns to relax themselves, but one breathing technique is more effective at returning your body to a naturally calm andconnected state. Jane McGonigal, author of SuperBetter, explains it.[image error]

A lot of people are very familiar with the technique of slow breathing or deep breathing to try to relax. But it turns out there’s a breathing technique that is more effective than that. I call it the power breath. And the way you do it is th...

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Published on May 04, 2016 20:20

One Problem. One Solution. Infinite Possibilities.

Michael Neill on consciousness

The Space Withinis an invitation to live an impossibly wonderful life. I[image error]t will help you to move beyond your theories and beliefs about how much happiness is possible and howmuch is ‘too good to be true.’ It will help you to return to love, and to come home to your own innate wisdom.

YOU ARE NOT WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE–YOU ARE THE SPACE WHERE THOUGHTS ARISE [image error]

Thought is the architect of both hope and despair, the source of every color in the emotional rainbow. Without thought, there would be no...

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Published on May 04, 2016 20:00

May 3, 2016

During Romantic Love, Your Brain Acts Obsessed, Depressed, and Stressed

Friedrich Nietzsche on Love

In On Romantic Love, Berit Brogaard attempts to get to the bott[image error]om of love’s many contradictions.

What can scientists know about love by looking at your brain? Quite a lot, says psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz. When individuals recall experiencing different kinds of love — romantic, maternal, etc. — brain scan machines (fMRIs) show which regions of the brain activate. As different regions are responsible for the release of different hormones, it is possible to establish biological similarities be...

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Published on May 03, 2016 20:20

What Advice Would Your 80-year-old Self Give You?

Don't give up [image error]

What advice would your 80-year-old self give you? That is the question artist Susan O’Malley, who was herself to die far too young, asked more than a hundred ordinary people of every age, from every walk of life. She then transformed their responses into vibrant text-based images.

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PASCAL, 8 YEARS OLD

“This is your life. Love it.”

BAILEY, 19 YEARS OLD

” You’re okay”

SEBASTIAN, 37 YEARS OLD

“You don’t need to know where are you going.”

CATHERINE, 45 YEARS OLD

“It will be better than you...
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Published on May 03, 2016 20:00

May 2, 2016

The Keys to Mastery

Jose Ortega y Gasset on mastery

Mastery is basically a form of intelligence that people reach after years of wo[image error]rking in a field, years of practice, experience, some failure.[image error]

It could be 10,000 hours. I say it can be 20,000 hours. It’s what happens to a Mozart or an Einstein or a Steve Jobs or anybody who is at something long enough where their mind basically elevates to another level. And they have what I consider high level intuition. They have a feel for what’s coming next in the world. They can sense trends. They can s...

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Published on May 02, 2016 20:20