Here’s Why You Are Inadvertently a Huge Trump Supporter
Perhaps there has never been such disdain for a president of the US as there has been for President Trump. While the majority of the US population voted for his opponent, Hilary Clinton, the electorate votes made Trump the winner. Therefore, more than half of the US citizens opposed President Trump from the beginning. Yet, […]
Here’s Why Knowledge Transfer from One Generation to the Next Is Rarely Effective
Knowledge transfer is critical for the survival of mankind. However, as each generation eliminates threats, the knowledge that is transferred has to account for that. In previous articles, I wrote about the unintentional knowledge transfer that sabotages the best efforts of any person or society. That happens because people still have the mindset that was […]
Can You Unlearn the Addictive Behaviors You Learned?
Everyone with a healthy brain is influenced by their environment. Everything in your environment that you see, hear and touch is recorded in your brain. Those recordings become part of your memory and shape what you think, say and do. Therefore, it’s imperative to expose your brain to that which makes you smarter and more […]
Interview with Ted Santos: Corporate consultant motivational speaker
Ted Santos: Corporate consultant motivational speaker: Ted Santos advises executive teams to create disruptive strategies. He then works side by side with key personnel to transform corporate culture in a way it supports those disruptive strategies. Through his work with midsize to large corporations, businesses have created quantum leaps in top line growth. He helps […]
Are You Passing Your Addictive Behaviors to the Next Generation?
In the past, I wrote an article about second chances. In the article, I talked about the need to coach, guide or train people before you give them a second chance. Otherwise, they will most likely repeat the same mistake. They may repeat the same mistake because they may have retained the same mindset they […]
In the Words of Yoda: The Counterintuitive Path Take, If You Wish, From Breakdown to Breakthrough Go You Will
The way is the problem you want. The problem is the way. To avoid the problem is to avoid the way. In other words, problems are not theproblem. Believing problems are problems is the beginning of your problems. It is not chaos or problems that are problems. It is how you think about them. And […]
Nope, It’s Definitely Not Persistence That Will Get You to the Championship
Last week I talked about how inherited conversations cancreate mental barriers. Those mental barriers create a mindset that can derail personal or professional aspirations. Today I would like to use myself as an example of what happens when the mental barriers are not there. In the past, I was a sales trainer. I taught sales […]
Do You Believe Persistence Creates Success?
For centuries, people have chanted that the most persistent person wins the prize. In this article, I am going to challenge that belief. I assert that it is not persistence that makes the difference. It is the stripping away of beliefs that allows an individual to keep going. While I understand that people in the […]
Would You Choose Eudaimonia Over Happiness?
Eudaimonia is a word from ancient Greece. People like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and others taught it in Greece. (Where they learned it is another article.) In English, it is often misinterpreted as happiness. However, the Greeks had no obsession with happiness. They were focused on fulfillment. Furthermore, they sought fulfillment through accomplishment and living a […]
Why Most People Rarely Learn Anything New
The human brain has an enormous capacity to learn. The paradox is it is filled with blindspots that limit learning capacity. For the most part, you only think the way you were taught to think. In effect, the way you do things is the way you do everything. The way you do things is shaped […]