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Of course your job sucks. It’s a job.
It’s not recess, it’s not a class you can blow off and still do well in by cheating on the final; it’s a j-o-b job.
Many of the people who tell me their jobs suck never give their job a chance. They:

Complain about their lack of authority.
Complain about [...]

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Yep, I’m talking about that Story of Abraham.
Now, it happened, it didn’t happen… I’m not going there. Where I am going is how modern religion currently uses the story of Abraham to guide their flocks. And based on the commonly used interpretation of the story, I can tell you, beyond a doubt, western religions [...]

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Alchemy, the study of turning one thing into another, was the precursor to chemistry. Alchemy itself seems to have been part science, part magic, part wishful thinking.
Because, as it turns out, you can’t turn lead into gold. Lead and gold are different things. No matter how much lead you accumulate, you can’t stare at it [...]

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You’re not going to want to hear this, but you’re stressed out because you’re approaching some element of your life backward.
I don’t know which element, or what specifically you’re doing, but I do understand the role stress plays in our lives, and what it’s existence means.
It means you’ve your head up your ass.
People generally have [...]

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Dealing with Emotional People

December 16, 2009

In business, we don’t like it when people allow their emotional “baggage” to get between them and a smart decision.
Interestingly, we generally expect such behavior.
Generally.
With one critical exception: When planning.
During the planning process, we tend to assume that people are perfectly able to get their acts together on call. Never mind that we are surrounded [...]

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I’m just hanging with Elle here… and we’re cold! It’s cold! in Chicago! Elle’s in my office with wet hair and I’m cold! just looking at her. Maybe that’s why I’m trying to warm her up the entire time during this video, the simple lesson of which is this:
Sometimes, you think you know what life [...]

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