Posts tagged as:

self improvement

This morning a big story broke in the tech community. Michael Arrington, founder of the tech news giant TechCrunch, posted an article titled, “Some Things Need to Change.” In this article, Arrington laments the stress level of his job and his plan to take time off. He speaks of the verbal abuse he has to [...]

{ View Comments }

In Part One of this post I hit on some really powerful concepts that I want to retouch for the sake of clarity. Humans possess a strong natural bias in favor of perpetuating the status quo. We are creatures of habit. It’s hardwired into our brains. Change causes us stress – which is the grown-up [...]

{ View Comments }

Human beings are wonderfully creative. Our minds offer limitless possibilities for change in business, education, and personal development – but there’s a problem. Our brains are hard-wired to avoid change. We are creatures of habit. Habits are easy. Habits keep us alive. The truth is, when given the choice, humans possess a strong natural bias [...]

{ View Comments }

Trust Yourself Enough to be Original

by Drew on January 23, 2009

I love Twitter.  The connection with like-minded individuals in real-time… it’s incredible.  But this post isn’t about Twitter.  (If you haven’t heard of Twitter or just “don’t get it”, I highly recommend watching this two minute video titled, “Twitter in Plain English“) This afternoon I was browsing Twitter and read the following message from David [...]

{ View Comments }

Olark Livehelp