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Express Your Genius

Forget what you think you know about genius. It’s not a magical, elusive gift — a “lightning bolt from the gods” that strikes people like Einstein or Mozart, but not the rest of us. Everyone’s got genius, but it’s up to you to find it, put it to work, and watch it change your life. Practical Genius: A 5-Step Plan to Turn Your Talent and Passion into Successwill show you how to:

One of the great benefits of being a human being is the endless ways we have to express ourselves. Lucky us. Langu...

Confirmation Bias: Your Brain Is So Judgmental

Don’t trust your first impressions… Your brain is working to lead you astray.

Social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals, explains how to make up for lazy shortcuts made by your brain as well as how to guide other people around their first impressions of you.

Confirmation Bias

So there are lots of biases that you can basically count on your perceiver being subject to. They’re going to interfere with the way this person sees you. The first and pr...

THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing & Better Living: Bounce Back

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Quote of the day

View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, “What was I thinking,” breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, “What was I learning?

~KAREN SALMANSOHN, author ofThe Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

WRITING

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The Incredible Perks Of Friendship

InFriendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are, you’ll discover the unexpected ways friends influence our personalities, choices, emotions, and even physical health in this fun and compelling examination of friendship, based on the latest scientific research and ever-relatable anecdotes.

Sharpen your mind

In his book ‘Collaborative Circles’, Farrel features a group of French Impressionists–Sisley, Renoir, Monet, and Bazille–that exemplifies how friendship circles become hot...

The New Employee: Creative. Adaptive. Temporary.

The brightest companies in business are always on the lookout for the brightest possible employees. What characteristics in particular are they looking for?

Entrepreneur Ben Casnocha, author of The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Ageexplains that versatility and an adaptive mindset can set you apart because taking risks is integral to 21st century success. Companies want employees who are able to roll with the punches and won’t be afraid to stick their neck out.

Today in an ec...

The New Employee: Creative. Adaptive. Temporary.

The brightest companies in business are always on the lookout for the brightest possible employees. What characteristics in particular are they looking for?

Entrepreneur Ben Casnocha, author of The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Ageexplains that versatility and an adaptive mindset can set you apart because taking risks is integral to 21st century success. Companies want employees who are able to roll with the punches and won’t be afraid to stick their neck out.

Today in an ec...

HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing & Better Living: Boost Productivity

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Quote of the day

Sometimes you’re so tied up in your daily chores; you are ‘happily busy’, getting no spare or ‘me time’ and blame your workload for all the chaos in your life. A single decision can transform your life here–it can convert you from a non-productive, busy, irritated, stressed out individual to a happy, relatively relaxed, super productive powerhouse.

~DARRIN WIGGINS, author ofProductivity: For The Perpetually Overwhelmed How To Tak...

HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing & Better Living: Boost Productivity

Photo Credit: Davor Pavelic via Compfight cc

Quote of the day

Sometimes you’re so tied up in your daily chores; you are ‘happily busy’, getting no spare or ‘me time’ and blame your workload for all the chaos in your life. A single decision can transform your life here–it can convert you from a non-productive, busy, irritated, stressed out individual to a happy, relatively relaxed, super productive powerhouse.

~DARRIN WIGGINS, author ofProductivity: For The Perpetually Overwhelmed How To Tak...

The Primacy Of Sexual Compatibility

In Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture,Chris Donaghue, PhD, explores and challenges the negative ideals that have warped society’s view of sex. Itis not a dogmatic rule book, but a valuable guide to help you on your journey to sexual self-discovery and, most important, self-acceptance.

Sexual compatibility is the most important attribute for relational success, coming before psychological, emotional and social compatibility

Far too many individuals...

Damn Good Advice (For People With Talent!)

Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!)is a look into the mind of one of America’s most legendary creative thinkers, George Lois. Offering indispensle lessons, practical advice, facts, anecdotes and inspiration, this book is a timeless creative bible for all those looking to succeed in life, business and creativity.

All the tools in the world are meaningless without an essential idea

An artist, an advertising man, or anyone involved in a creative industry (or even noncreative profession...