This is me on our most recent ski trip. (If you’re reading this in email, click through to see the video.) It’s me, hitting a 5 ft jump. Though I barely leave the ground, I can assure you, it felt like I was in the air for a very long time. The hardest part? Doing [...]
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Daniel Crosby. I like this guy. The presentation below is dead on. It’s a fun walk thru of the same principles that underpin How to Self-Destruct™, except I think he does it even better. Scary stat: 80% of all American households will not buy a single book in any given year. Talk about failing spectacularly. [...]
According to Edward Gibbon, the author of the voluminous The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the following were the five signs of Rome’s “decaying culture”: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth. Obsession with sex and perversions of sex. Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original. Widening disparity between [...]
In 2009, I spoke to a group of very bright, very capable students at Ohio University. I keep in touch with a number of those students. Here’s why: They were thoughtful. A few weeks after my presentation, 4 CDs arrived in the mail: 2 were of artists I had heard in one of their cars [...]
Fails, epic fails, and spectacular failure are three very different things. Here’s a breakdown: FAIL n, An idea, either good or bad, gone awry, often due to unforeseen circumstances, stress, or some important oversight, and suggesting of ignorance, intoxication, and/or incompetence on the part of the failer. e.g.: EPIC FAIL n, A bad idea gone [...]
Yes!!!! I’m like a kid in a candy store right now. Did you see this? On People Magazine’s website? The headline reads: Spencer Pratt to Heidi Montag: ‘I Failed Spectacularly’ On so many levels. So often. To so many people, too. (Let’s face it: if I know who you are, SP, then you failed me [...]
Welcome back, Michael Plahn! For those of you who don’t know, Michael runs Life Skills Authorities, a group that helps individuals with addiction treatment. Michael also runs a program called Project Rejection, with I, as co-creator of the Fail Spectacularly! Party, find freaking awesome. Here’s the scoop on Project Rejection: In the past, I would [...]
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