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Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:10:33 GMT

clipped by: karokan
clipper's remarks: This site is absolutely amazing! It offers free education in any subject from Aerodynamics to Dentistry, from Calculus to History, from Business to Oceanography. All coursework is provided free of charge online. I checked it out and was very surprised by their offering.

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Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn—by Dave Barry

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:35:06 GMT

clipped by: djkraz
clipper's remarks: pretty funny stuff

Clip Source: www.lucidcafe.com

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Never lick a steak knife.

The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

Your friends love you anyway.

Tags: funny, humor

Best 50 hacks for your Life

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:50:33 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: www.lifehack.org

Communication, Writing, Studying

My Best Presentation Tricks

The Business Card Game

Persuasive Writing for Students, Webmasters, Bloggers, and Everyone Else

7 tips of handling your Emails without feeling overwhelmed

Writing as a Form of Self Healing

Advice for students: Writing by hand

Yes, But Do People Like You?

Writing – Just do it!

A good place to study

Blog your way through Writer’s Block

14 Tips for Communicating Ideas

Productivity, Creativity, Motivation

9 Top Secrets of Naturally Born Organizers

Fight The Flab!

More Fight The Flab!

Limit Creativity, Get Innovation

Precious Moments

5 Ways to Improve Your Productivity in the Office

A Geek’s Best Lifehack

What Kind of Paranoid Are You?

Being A Creative

There’s No Time!

The Mysteries Behind Motivation and How To Manipulate Them

Time Management: Handling Disruptions in Daily Schedules

Productivity Hack: Write Mini Process Flows

Design an Online Workflow

Management, Self-Management, Entrepreneurship

Bare Bones Project Hacks

The 10 Beliefs of Great Managers

The Simplest Path to Success

Letting Things Go

Closet Entrepreneur

Time To Discard The Portmanteau

5 Important Keys to Bootstrap Your Entrepreneurship

The Most Underutilized Tool for Effective Communication

Everyday Performance Reviews

Meetings, @&!!$*@ Meetings!

What Are You Worried About?

How to Ruin Your Career In Five Easy Steps

Procrastination, Goal Settings, Life

9 Steps to Define your Goal Destination and Devise a Plan to Get There

Pro-Active Steps to Prevent Procrastination

Improve Your Life By Following A Schedule

The Causes of Procrastination And How To Conquer Them

How To Make Resolutions You’ll Keep

Literal Life Hack: Cut your window of time in half

New Year’s Resolutions and Deficit Thinking

6 Sleep Tips

Risks versus Rewards Worksheet

5 Tips for Getting Out of Debt (and Why)

Deep Breathing: A Great Health Trick

8 Expenses to Cut and How

Desk-side Fitness

Tags: hacks, lists, life

A Morality Test

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:13:55 GMT

clipped by: Malhablada

Clip Source: www.peskylittlepagan.com

From an e-mail...

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally.

The test features an unlikely, fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, and spontaneous.

Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line.

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THE SITUATION

You are in New Orleans, There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. You are a photo journalist working for a major newspaper and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster.

You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, and disappearing under the water.

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THE TEST

Suddenly you see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's the President, George W. Bush. At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever. You have two options- you can save the life of the President, or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most famous men.

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THE QUESTION

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer.......

Would you select high contrast colour film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

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15 Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:14:30 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”

Clip Source: www.awesomeology.com

15 Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Never lick a steak knife.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

A person who is nice to you but rude to a waiter is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

Your friends love you anyway.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

Tags: aging

Ten cognitive distortions that mess you up

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:45:26 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: David Burns is a pioneer in popularizing the cognitive-behavioral approach to mood therapy developed by Aaron Beck. As someone who has struggled on and off with crippling depression my whole life, I have found this list of "cognitive distortions" pretty useful in reframing certain elements of my thinking.

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The Ten Forms of Twisted Thinking

All-or-nothing thinking

You see things in black-or-white categories. If a situation falls short of perfect, you see it as a total failure. When a young woman on a diet ate a spoonful of ice cream, she told herself, "I’ve blown my diet completely." This thought upset her so much that she gobbled down an entire quart of ice cream!

Overgeneralization

You see a single negative event, such as a romantic rejection or career reversal, as a never-ending pattern of defeat by using words such as "always" or "never" when you think about it. A depressed salesman became terribly upset when he noticed bird dung on the windshield of his car. He told himself, "Just my luck! Birds are always crapping on my car!"

Mental filter

You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively, so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that discolors a beaker of water. Example: You receive many positive comments about your presentation to a group of associates at work, but one of them says something mildly critical. You obsess about his reaction for days and ignore all the positive feedback.

Discounting the positive

You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don’t count." If you do a good job, you may tell yourself that it wasn’t good enough or that anyone could have done as well. Discounting the positive takes the joy out of life and makes you feel inadequate and unrewarded.

Jumping to conclusions

Magnification

Emotional reasoning

You assume that your negative emotions necessarily reject the way things really are: "I feel terrified about going on airplanes. It must be dangerous to fly." Or "I feel guilty. I must be a rotten person." Or "I feel angry. This proves I’m being treated unfairly." Or "I feel so inferior. This means I’m a second-rate person." Or "I feel hopeless. I must really be hopeless."

"Should statements"

Labeling

Personalization and blame

Tags: psychology, depression, personal

6 Key Social Skills

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:33:33 GMT

clipped by: firebird
clipper's remarks: Obvious? Perhaps not - judging by how people often respond in social situations - where 'me' is the most important subject

Clip Source: www.self-confidence.co.uk

6 Key Social Skills

Social skills are arguably the most important set of abilities a person can have. Human beings are social animals and a lack of good social skills can lead to a lonely life, contributing to anxiety and depression. Great social skills help you meet interesting people, get that job you want, progress further in your career and relationships.

Happily, like any skill, social strategies and techniques can be learned…

The main social skills are as follows:

1) The ability to remain relaxed, or at a tolerable level of anxiety while in social situations

Regardless of how skillful you are in social situations, if you are too anxious, your brain is functioning in way unsuited to speaking and listening. In addition, if your body and face give the unconscious message that you are nervous, it will be more difficult to build rapport with others.

2) Listening skills, including letting others know you are listening

3) Empathy with and interest in others' situations

A major part of social anxiety is self consciousness, which is greatly alleviated by focusing strongly on someone else. A fascination (even if forced at first) with another's conversation not only increases your comfort levels, it makes them feel interesting.

4) The ability to build rapport, whether natural or learned

Rapport is a state of understanding or connection that occurs in a good social interaction. It says basically "I am like you, we understand each other". Rapport occurs on an unconscious level, and when it happens, the language, speech patterns, body movement and posture and other aspects of communication can synchronise down to incredibly fine levels.

Rapport is an unconscious process, but it can be encouraged by conscious efforts.

5) Knowing how, when and how much to talk about yourself - 'self disclosure'

6) Appropriate eye contact

Tags: social skills, psychology, self-development

What to ask during a job interview.

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:12:08 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: If I get a job interview anytime soon, I'm sure these'l come in handy. Nothing like impressing the future employers, right?

Clip Source: msn.careerbuilder.com

An interview is meant to be a two-way street. The hiring manager is interviewing you to determine whether you're the best fit for the job. At the same time, you should be asking questions to determine whether you would be happy in the position or with the company.

The company

What do you see ahead for your company in the next five years?

How do you see the future for this industry?

What do you consider to be your firm's most important assets?

What can you tell me about your new product or plans for growth?

How do you rate your competition?

The position's history

What happened to the last person who held this job?

What were the major strengths and weaknesses of the last person who held this job?

What types of skills do you NOT already have onboard that you're looking to fill with a new hire?

The department

What is the overall structure of the company and how does your department fit the structure?

What are the career paths in this department?

What have been the department's successes in the last couple of years?

How do you view your group/division/department?

The job's responsibilities

What would you consider to be the most important aspects of this job?

What are the skills and attributes you value most for someone being hired for this position?

Where have successful employees previously in this position progressed to within the company?

Could you describe a typical day or week in this position? The typical client or customer I would be dealing with?

The expectations

What are the most immediate challenges of the position that need to be addressed in the first three months?

What are the performance expectations of this position over the first 12 months?

How will I be evaluated at XYZ company, and how often?

The next steps

What are the next steps in the interview process?

Laura Morsch, CareerBuilder.com writer

Tags: employment, interview, employer, career, industry

They did not give up

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:39:43 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on.

When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy."

Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work

An expert said of Vince Lombardi: "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation."

Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."

When Lucille Ball began studying to be actress, she was to"Try any other profes

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As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success.

Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62.

Socrates was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and continued to corrupt even after a sentence of death was imposed on him.

Sigmund Freud was booed from the podium when he first presented his ideas to the scientific community of Europe.

Robert Sternberg received a C in his first college introductory-psychology class.

Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive."

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7.

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded

Tags: success, motivation, career, failure

Finding Your Passion

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:44:32 GMT

clipped by: Folly

Clip Source: www.mindtools.com

Step 1 - Define your passion:
What “fires you up”? For some people the answer to this question is very obvious. For others, it is a little more difficult.

If you are facing difficulty giving a definite answer set aside 30 minutes to answer three questions:

What would I want my life to be like when I am 60?
What do I want to have accomplished 5 years from now?
What are the three things I would want to do if I only had 6 months to live?

Each question will have several answers. Choose the top three answers for each question.

Now out of the nine goals you have identified, cull out the three that look most important to you. Obviously, these three goals are things that are very important to you. You should naturally be passionate about achieving them: If not, you may need to set goals that are on a grander or more beneficial scale!

Tags: self-help, career, goals, priorities, psychology, motivation

The New Nostradamus

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:29:23 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: worth read the whole article.

as they say: there is nothing new under the sun, but there is a lot of unknown there still 2be discovered .... -))

Clip Source: www.goodmagazine.com

If you listen to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and a lot of people don’t, he’ll claim that mathematics can tell you the future. In fact, the professor says that a computer model he built and has perfected over the last 25 years can predict the outcome of virtually any international conflict

His fans include at least one current presidential hopeful, a gaggle of Fortune 500 companies, the CIA, and the Department of Defense.

He is wildly controversial, though. As one of the foremost scholars of game theory—or “rational choice,” as its political-science practitioners prefer to call it—Bueno de Mesquita is at the center of a raging hullabaloo that has taken over some of the most prestigious halls of learning in this country

His only concern is with what the political actors want, what they say they want (often two very different things), and how each of their various options will affect their career advancement. He feeds this data into his computer model and out pop the answers.

Tags: bruce bueno de mesquita, political science, mathematical predictions, game theory

Atheism: 10 Myths & 10 Truths For The Open-Minded

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:55:26 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: These 10 Myths of Atheism are well countered by the 10 Truths offered in answer to them in this article.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

10 myths -- and 10 truths -- about atheism

SEVERAL POLLS indicate that the term "atheism" has acquired such an extraordinary stigma in the United States that being an atheist is now a perfect impediment to a career in politics (in a way that being black, Muslim or homosexual is not). According to a recent Newsweek poll, only 37% of Americans would vote for an otherwise qualified atheist for president.

Atheists are often imagined to be intolerant, immoral, depressed, blind to the beauty of nature and dogmatically closed to evidence of the supernatural.

Atheists believe that life is meaningless.

Atheism is responsible for the greatest crimes in human history.

Atheism is dogmatic.

Atheists think everything in the universe arose by chance.

Atheism has no connection to science.

Atheists are arrogant.

Atheists are closed to spiritual experience.

Atheists believe that there is nothing beyond human life and human understanding.

Atheists ignore the fact that religion is extremely beneficial to society.

Atheism provides no basis for morality.

We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didn't make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery — and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is an abomination. Whatever is good in scripture — like the golden rule — can be valued for its ethical wisdom without our believing that it was handed down to us by the creator of the universe.

Tags: religion, atheism, logic, truth, rationality

Steal my content, please!

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:09:31 GMT

clipped by: ericskiff
clipper's remarks: I completely agree with Scoble on this one, although I can understand why people who make their living directly from their creations have a hard time letting go of the fear of giving away at least some of the rights to their content.

Cory Doctorow began releasing all of his literary work under creative commons licenses years ago, allowing people to freely download and distribute his work under some light provisos. I downloaded and read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" on my palm pilot, freely and legally, and was hooked.

Because of that, I've read a huge amount of his writing, become a mammoth fan, and will likely purchase every book he publishes. I've also published everything I've written, shot, and produced under a similar license.

While that certainly hasn't brought me traditional commercial success, it has definitely accelerated serendipity countless times for me, and if you trace out the effects of those 'lucky' events, it's helped shape both my career and life.

Clip Source: scobleizer.com

I was just reading feeds before heading to the second day’s events at LeWeb3 conference in Paris. Along comes Susan Mernit’s blog, who quotes Lane Hartwell, who is pissed that people steal her photographs. She’s decided to take all of her Flickr photos out of the public eye.

Me? I’m the opposite of Lane. I WANT YOU to steal my content. In fact, next year I’m going to do stuff to make all my content available via Creative Commons license so you can use it whereever and whenever, including my video shows. I’d like a credit, yes, but don’t demand it. I’d rather just add to the human experience and if that means that other people make money off of my work, so be it.

I’ve found that the more I give away my content, the more magical stuff happens to me anyway and if that means my photos or writings or videos get used in some way that I don’t really like, well, that’s a risk I’m willing to take. Lane obviously is not.

10 Reasons Why People Fail

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:40:55 GMT

clipped by: coecoe321

Clip Source: www.goalsguy.com

Taking Action Without Planning

Planning Without Taking Action

Unrealistic Timeframes and Expectations

Reasons "Why" Are Unclear

Denial of Reality

Conflicting Values

Diffusion of Energy

Lack of Focus

Trying To Do It All Alone

10.

Fear Of Failure

Tags: success, life, career

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Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:23:17 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: There are 4 categories, career,I.Q.,personality,and relationships. There are the free tests, and of course many more available to members. I'm not sure of the conditions behind the membership tests, but so far I'm having enough fun with the free ones.

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