Posts Tagged ‘psychology’
ACLR 014: How to Cultivate Curiosity, with Jennifer Felberg
Sipping cocktails with Jennifer Felberg and sharing actionable lessons in how to cultivate curiosity and how to use applied curiosity as a strategic tool for yourself, your family, and your company.
Read MoreAre You Curious About Your Competence?
The other day a potential future rock-star, 6-year old drummer girl asked me a great question.
“How do I know whether I’m good enough yet?”
It wasn’t an easy question to answer because we all wonder, from time to time, whether we question our competence too much or not enough. Are we not yet good enough or are we so good that, comparatively, others suck?
Sexy mind science can be embarrassing when it comes to humans and our competence. For example
Read MoreUse Curiosity to Avoid This Trap
“I would love to see the statistics of domestic violence in the NFL versus the general population.”
“What do you mean by statistics?”
“Well, I mean the reported rates. I bet the reported rates are a lot higher in the NFL than in the general population.”
“Really? What would that mean?”
Could it mean that:
Read MoreWorld History Starts Here
Imagine you have a pushpin. It is sharp and magical. Imagine you can count on your memory of yesterday being the one true memory. Extend your crystal clear memory all the way back to the beginning of time so that your scroll of history is the one true and accurate depiction. Now call up the magic of your pushpin and succinctly prink the moment in history from which you want all land ownership to be determined. Start there.
That pushpin gave you a lot of power. Beware of
Read MoreDumpster Dive Your Life to Connect
Once upon a not-too-long-ago time, I was an impostor in a focus group. Wildly impressive people gathered in Los Angeles for what seemed like the purpose of giving others (okay, me) an inferiority complex. Really they were there, like me, for a focus group to test their media meddle.
One serious, ex-military general was preparing to present a multi-billion dollar project to the Pentagon the next month. A brilliant, German scientist was testing her TED talk about her discovery of a whole new way of looking at cancer. A best-selling author was prepping for a sit-down with Oprah, and another clever entrepreneur was practicing for a Today Show segment. And then there was
How Did We Get So Right?
I like to think of polarizing issues and try to pinpoint the exact moment when I knew which side of the issue was right. On big issues like abortion, gay marriage and Justin Bieber, I doubt that I will ever change my mind because I’m absolutely certain that I’m right. Still, it’s hard for me to pinpoint the exact moment that I came to my right conclusion.
I’m willing to admit that I could be wrong. Okay, no I’m not. Who do I even think that I’m fooling? I know several things about this process because science tells me so. The more entrenched I am in my opinion, the more I will look for things that prove I’m right. Now, I don’t have to look far and wide to find evidence proving I’m right, but that’s because
Read MoreFrom Nether Regions Come…Sortafacts
Sortafacts are everywhere. Shhh…don’t tell anybody because whispering makes things 87% more believable.
Sortafacts are shared by company presidents, members of governments, magazines, blogs, newspapers, and news broadcasts both fair and balanced and slippery and wobbly. They are the truth-ish. This is proven to be true 93% of the time.
Often they come from our nether regions. Basically. Trust me. Literally (I saw them there once). They sometimes get sent down the bloggit hole where
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