Friday, June 7, 2019

Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pinkEnjoy yourself, enjoy yourselfIt's later than you think. You work and work for years and yearsYou're always on the goNever take a minute offTo busy makin' dough Some day, you say, you'll have your funWhen you're a millionaireImagine all the fun you'll haveIn your old rockin' chair Enjoy yourself it's later than you thinkEnjoy yourself while you're...
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Making Of a Happy Genius

In 1973, four-year-old Susan opened the cupboard of their guest room and saw many chess pieces fell out of a small bag. Just next to them was a rolled-up chess mat. She took the mat out and looked at the pieces with the intrigue comparable to any other child of her age.  “What are these, Mummy?” Susan asked innocently, holding a piece in her hand and examining it. “These are chess pieces,...
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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Pygmalion Effect

The work of Rosenthal and Jacobsen (1968), among others, shows that teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. Rosenthal and Jacobson originally described the phenomenon as the Pygmalion Effect. “When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

The Secret of Happiness

When Gurdjieff (George Ivanovich Gurdjieff  was a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Armenia, Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness  referred to it as the "Fourth Way")  was a small boy, his dying grandfather summoned his beloved protégé to be by his side....
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The Secret of Mastery

The phenomenal Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was sitting in a small cafe in France. Waiting for his third cup of coffee, while a smoldering cigarette rested in an ashtray, he was doodling on a paper napkin. Oblivious to Picasso, another patron, a woman from an adjacent table, had been observing keenly. A few minutes later Picasso put his pencil down, lifted the napkin and stared at it blankly,...
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Monday, June 3, 2019

The Man Who Thinks He Can

"Thinking" is a poem written by Walter D. Wintle, a poet who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. Little to nothing is known about any details of his life. "Thinking" is also known as "The Man Who Thinks He Can". If you think you are beaten, you areIf you think you dare not, you don't,If you like to win, but you think you can'tIt is almost certain you won't.If you think you'll...
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Who Packed Your Parachute?

Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience! . One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a...
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Make Your Bed

Admiral William H. McRaven delivered a commencement address to the graduates of The University of Texas at Austin on May 17, 2014. It's been almost 37 years to the day that he graduated from University of Texas. The University's slogan is, “What starts here changes the world.”  Admiral William H. McRaven in his address said   “ If You Want To Change...
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