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Power of Resistance
Natural resistances in the way you act, react and interact (in other words, the way you get “Get Conative”) are essential to your being at your best. Trust a conative strength to resist and you will...
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Microsoft: Ignorant or Arrogant?
Microsoft: You have set yourself up as a language expert. You mercilessly correct our spelling errors all day every day. You posture as an all-knowing judge and jury of right and wrong in use of...
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It Pays to Know Others’ M.O.s
It’s just not worth it to ask people to do things if the way they do them doesn’t work for you. Don’t ask initiating Fact Finders for an answer – if you aren’t prepared to provide lots and lots of...
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Goals with Purposes
Goals are for keeping score. Purposes are for making differences. Kids learn a lot about making goals in soccer games. They learn: Who is best at making goals What it takes to defend against others...
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Scholarship: About Doing, as Much or More as Thinking
It feels like there is mostly Thinking going on in many academic programs, from fourth grade through undergraduate programs in universities. Where does the Doing get done? Not in lecture-based...
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5 Simple Steps to Avoid Getting a Job Interview
You have an equal opportunity (or as one recent job candidate wrote in the first line of his resume: “an opertunity”) …to destroy your chances of getting called in for a job interview. Simple 1st step...
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Nothing into Everything
This is the poem that inspires a comment I frequently make: Nothing IS Everything. Know you what it is to be a child?…it is to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that...
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What I know about Being Gifted
Being gifted cognitively does not make you smart. Nor does it give you instinctive problem solving abilities, a better personality or a greater work ethic than others. “Gifted” is a dumb label for high...
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Why Monday Morning Blues During Happy Hour Sunset?
How could they be my friends and spend a lovely Sunday evening (while they could have been watching a magnificent sunset change from vibrant colors to muted tones) talking about how they were dreading...
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Same M.O. Marriages
Do personal partners who act, react, and interact through the same M.O.* miss out on the synergy of conative differences? Do conative look alikes compete or try to one-up each other (“My facts are more...
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