Something You Should Know about Human Behavior

May 10, 2012

Interview with Chris McChesney, co-author of the book The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

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Mike Carruthers:
Whether at work or in your personal life it’s common to take on a new project but never quite get around to it.

Chris McChesney:
The problem is that typically when there is that new thing to do there’s 7 or 8 other new things as well competing for its attention.
 

April 25, 2012

Interview with Thor Muller, author of the book Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business

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Mike Carruthers:
Luck can be a powerful force for your success if you understand how to use it.

Thor Muller:
Well we all know that there’s such a thing as blind luck when you’re struck by lightning what we talk about is something called serendipity. And serendipity involves chance but it also involves doing something with that chance what we call creativity. 
 

April 23, 2012

Interview with Jason Teteak, Founder of www.RuleTheRoom.com

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Mike Carruthers:
Speaking before a group of people is something almost everyone has to do and almost everyone hates doing. Why?

Jason Teteak:
The number 1 reason that people get nervous and are fearful is because they’re not prepared.
 

April 18, 2012

Interview with Marney Makridakis, author of the book Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life

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Mike Carruthers:
What if you could create more time when you need it? Well in a way you can.

Marney Makridakis:
Since we know is relative, I mean that’s obviously proven by science and it’s obviously proven just by our psychological experiences of time – compare an hour with a loved one to an hour in the dentist chair.