How you can give yourself a creative boost? Discover the Curse of Knowledge and learn some creative skills
How can you give yourself a creative boost? Discover the Curse of Knowledge and see that we human beings always think in fixed thinking patterns. This article explores the concept of thinking in “Yes and ...” instead of “yes but…” to give a boost to your own creative skills, and a brief case-study of the start of www.newshoestoday.com. When you stop thinking in ‘Yes but…’ you stop being an Ideakiller, and unleash new levels of creativity.
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Having a powerful Phrase That Pays helps your key message to stick in your audience’s minds. Many speakers go to a lot of trouble to develop these golden words of wisdom, so can anyone else use them or are they owned by each of us and therefore how do we protect them? What is the difference between a Phrase That Pays and a positioning statement. Here are some thoughts about this.
To be a success on-line, and a true thought leader, know what you’re good at, become great at it, and share it with the right people. People want you, not just your expertise. Increasingly, they’re searching Google for names of experts, not just a topic of interest.
Speaking at TED is, in many ways, speaking at the pinnacle. So ... how do you do it? What are the keys? And how different is it than a ‘normal’ speech or Keynote?
Years ago as I took over the responsibility for the Asia Pacific markets with a big international firm, my colleagues started filling me in on various anecdotes. I have since forgotten most of them. The following, however, is one of those few that have stuck in my mind.
Many speakers and actors are also introverts. In today’s extroverted business world, introverts can feel ignored, overlooked, and misunderstood. In fact, according to my research—a two-and-a-half-year national study of introverted professionals—four out of five introverts say extroverts are more likely to get ahead in their workplace. What’s more, over 40 percent say they would like to change their introverted tendencies, but don’t know where or how to begin.
Three years ago my wife, two boys (aged 4 and 6) and I moved to a farm just outside New Zealand’s largest city Auckland. On arriving in our new country paradise, my wife convinced the family to get four hens so we could have fresh eggs every day. All went well for a number of months, and we had fried eggs, poached eggs, scrambled eggs and omlettes very regularly for a limited investment in chicken feed.
