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The Power of Negative Thinking: Your Successful Attitude is Arbitrary and Fleeting
Today’s popular appeal in the self-improvement industry is to the power of positive thinking. As a matter of fact, Dr. Peale’s book The Power of Positive Thinking, the main encourager of this phenomenon, will help you learn: How to eliminate that most devastating handicap — self doubt How to free yourself from worry, stress and [...]
Learning to Think Like Da Vinci Will Aid You in Your Career and Life
In the History Channel’s Da Vinci and the Code, the code has nothing to do with Dan Brown’s work but refers instead to Da Vinci’s work ethic, curiosity, and, most importantly, the discipline needed to keep working and moving forward, even through tumultuous times–in 15 th century Italy life was little valued, especially if you [...]
Critical, Creative, Intuitive Thinking: All You’ll Ever Need in Life
Looking to impress that special someone? Need to build a new cabinet under the kitchen sink? Need to make a career change? It’s a bedtime story you need? Have to make an important political decision? Got an exam you’ve got to pass? On and on and on it goes. All begins in thought. Everything under [...]
A High School Education is Necessary, But Has This Opinion Ever Been Confirmed?
First, to set the stage, let’s start by saying that most believe education to be critical. Education here meaning high school since it is compulsory and everyone is required to attend. But specifically the content of the “education” spoken to by the majority is quite different from what is essential to survive in today’s competitive [...]
Best Teacher of the Century Award: Your Mom and Dad
First, remember back to when you were but a wee one, maybe four or five years old. Or better yet, take a look at your four or five year old. What do you see? A copy machine, right? As you drive in the car, walk through the park, go on excursions and adventures here and [...]
Sorry Folks, Education is Not Institutional But Rather Individual
Certainly, for a child or youth, what to learn and how it is be taught should be left up to the adult, the child being too inexperienced and young to know better. But if a child is to learn, spending at least the required twelve years in school in America, why this “education”? For one, [...]
What Your Child’s Teacher Won’t Tell You
Concerned about your child’s education? Why not get some solutions from the horse’s mouth? Teachers . . . If you listen without judgment and with your child’s best interest in mind, they can tell you a lot. And remember, they are not the enemy. What? You think they went into teaching for the power, fame, [...]
How to Succeed: Ignore the Majority and Do the Unexpected
If someone is successful, she is often asked “How’d you do it? Did you take classes? Get a certificate? Degree?” And when you tell them “No, I self-appointed myself” or did it on your own, most can’t believe you were able to do so without getting certificated or validated by some “official” or “expert.” The [...]
College Tips to Help Save Time, Money, Aggravation, and Your Sanity: Career
Let’s begin with what you’re all shooting for in the first place (I hope): Career satisfaction and success In college, generally one thing is acquired: knowledge. Very rarely will you learn the critical skills and attitudes needed for success in your career or, for that matter, life (family, social, political, etc.) However, for now let’s [...]
You May Not Care About Your Success But the Rest of the World Does
Some say that distraction is the tool of the devil or that which gets us off track from doing great things in our lives not only for ourselves but for others. Now some may not believe in the devil and some may believe that they are happy and don’t need change. Not believing in the [...]
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