Sat.Mar 19, 2011 - Fri.Mar 25, 2011

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Creativity + Practice = Success

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In studying creative people who are passionate about what they do , we can enhance our own creativity, and business savvy, even if we work in a completely different arena. Of course, it’s easier for most people to relate to musicians and other creative people work than to people who design furniture. The obvious emotion underlying a great song makes us feel that we have at least some understanding of the performers and their motivations.

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A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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Canadian Malcolm Gladwell in his book, " Outliers ," tells us that the way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulling prophecy" a situation where a "false definition, in the beginning.evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true.". Canadians start with a false definition of who the best nine and ten-year-old hockey players are.

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Managing the Influences that Govern Our Behavior

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Most people blame lack of willpower for their inability to change a bad habit. But it turns out willpower has surprisingly little to do with it. A book based on the latest psychological and medical research, Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success , documents a study of more than 5,000 people at the Change Anything Lab in Utah. When it comes to kicking bad habits, we have far less control over our behavior than we think.