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Your Weakness Is Your Strength
by Guest Tickler
As an immigrant to the United States, I am not what one would consider part of the fabric of mainstream culture. Of Asian descent, I belong to a group that makes up just 4.4 percent of the population. I have dark hair, big eyes, a Singapore smile... |
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Appearances Can Be Deceptive!
by PK
Analysis. The human mind is very simple. It zeros in on the obvious. The guy whose drawer is in a mess is seen as having a disorganized pattern of thinking too. This is as crude as it can get. |
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You've Been Framed!
by K R Ravi
Years of conditioning and training can lead to a freezing of frames. These frames help us to simplify the world but the danger lies in oversimplification and holding on to frames after they are no longer relevant. Albert Einstein admonished his colleagues, “Make it as simple as possible but no simpler.” |
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The Hopi and the Temporal Paradox!
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We have a persistent feeling of events receding into a past of non-existence. The future is a nebulous void. The present moment is all that we experience and therefore grant it a higher level of existence. |
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Time to Change YOUR Leaves?
by Guest Tickler
Fall is one of my favorite times of year—the temp starts dropping, the air gets crisp, the trees put on a glorious display of color—I love it! I also think it's a great time to drop what's not working for you. If trees can let go of every leaf, why can't we let go of what no longer serves us? |
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Paradox: The Heart of Creativity!
by K R Ravi
One of the most brilliant displays of paradoxical thinking is by scientist Faraday in the 1830’s. He had observed that a current of electricity passingthrough a wire could have the effect of causing the magnetized needle of a compass to deflect, that is, move in a rotational direction when a compass was located close to the wire. This was the basis of his invention of the electric motor. |
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From Best Practice to Next Practice
by Derek Cheshire
What on earth are ‘Business Burps’ you may be asking? It was a phrase I thought of whilst ... burping. Can you remember as a child when you first let out a burp after gulping a fizzy drink? Wasn’t it a bit exciting (as well as a little bit rude)? Weren’t your parents just a tiny bit embarrassed? |
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The bipolar vision
by PS Wasu
The paradox is at the heart of all things. The opposites necessarily coexist. The back of the hand and the front of the hand are dependent on each other for their existence. You can’t have one without the other. |
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Myths about creativity
by Shalu Wasu
Creativity has long been looked upon as an activity behind the closet. No wonder many myths have developed around the creative process. Not to be left behind, there are many myth busters out there as well! |
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16 habits of highly creative people
by Shalu Wasu
Many people believe that creativity is inborn and only a chosen few are creative. While it is true that creativity is inborn, it is not true that only a chosen few are creative. |
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When Does The Idea Fairy Like To Visit You?
by Danielle LaPorte
Richard Bach, author of the metaphysical classics, Jonathon Livingston Seagull and Bridge Across Forever, noticed that the Idea Fairy came to him when he was gardening, or flying in a plane. That’s when he would get his story line ideas and life so... |
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Is imagination another cousin of creativity?
by Shalu Wasu
Imagination is visualizing something that is not there. It is seeing something with your mind’s eye.
Now I want you to actually absorb what imagination is. First read the whole article, then try out what it suggests and then read it once more!
J... |
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From Best Practice to Next Practice
by Derek Cheshire
What on earth are ‘Business Burps’ you may be asking? It was a phrase I thought of whilst ... burping. Can you remember as a child when you first let out a burp after gulping a fizzy drink? Wasn’t it a bit exciting (as well as a little bit rude)? Weren’t your parents just a tiny bit embarrassed? |
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Slow down to go faster!
by Shalu Wasu
Sometimes, it is not the circumstances, but our own mind which pushes us to come up with a solution quickly. Our mind is rushed perhaps because it is lazy (or efficient!). It wants to stop working as quickly as possible or maybe because it wants ... |
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The Broken Window
by K R Ravi
The editor of a Delhi based newspaper wrote an article bemoaning the fall in standards of the Indian Foreign Service. It was but natural that this article would be followed by a barrage of letters from readers, some agreeing with him and some not amu... |
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Deciding how to decide!
by K R Ravi
Meta decision should take place before you frame the issue. ‘Plunging’ into
the various stages of decision making can lead to disastrous consequences.
Not devoting sufficient time and effort to this phase may lead to you solving
the wrong problem thereby exacerbating the actual problem. |
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16 habits of highly creative people
by Shalu Wasu
Many people believe that creativity is inborn and only a chosen few are creative. While it is true that creativity is inborn, it is not true that only a chosen few are creative. |
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15 elephant tethers that stop you from being creative!
by Shalu Wasu
As you grow up and gain experience, you absorb assumptions which then drive your life and limit your choices. You can break away from them with a simple tug if you want to but you don’t. As you acquire more and more experience, your repertoire of blind assumptions grows too, correspondingly limiting your choices. Your experience becomes a hindrance in your being creative. |
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Why be creative?
by Shalu Wasu
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. – George Lois
The popular perception is that creativity is just for writers, artists, scientists and advertising people. Not... |
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I love to fail!
by Shalu Wasu
Our attitude towards failure gets formed very early in life. Usually in school…and it never just goes away. All through school, we perhaps take hundreds of tests, exams, assignments etc. And we are in BIG trouble if we fail even ONCE. So we are sca... |
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Top 10 ideas for how NOT to make a million dollars!
by Shalu Wasu
1. Start a cool looking website. Flick some good content from various sites, put it all together and make it look coherent. Optimize your website for google. Add on some google ads on your site and voila! you are ready to make your first million on t... |
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Stuck for an idea? Try this.
by Shalu Wasu
When was the last time you were stuck for an idea? It happens with everyone, but the trick is not to remain stuck for long. What if you had a magic wand and you could come up with ideas about anything at will? How would it change your life? This arti... |
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Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
by Guest Tickler
In this funny, personal and motivating talk, Elizabeth Gilbert shares on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. |
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