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Something You Should Know about Intuition

Do You Have The "It" Factor?

 June 4, 2010

 

Interview with Mark Wiskup, author of the book The It Factor: Be the One People Like, Listen to, and Remember

 

Mike Carruthers:
Do you have the "it" factor?

 

Mark Wiskup:
The "it" factor is the rare ability to connect with anyone you meet for any reason - whether you know them for five seconds or whether you've known them for five years.

 
Mark Wiskup

What Do You Do Best?

January 26, 2010

 

Interview with Sir Kenneth Robinson, author of the book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Would you say you’re doing what you truly love and are good at?

 

Sir Kenneth Robinson:
The way that we can really get fulfillment in our lives is to discover the things that we can do best. And when we find the things that we do best we start to become the best that we can be.
 
Sir Ken Robinson

 

Sir Ken Robinson, author of the book The Element ... 

 

Reading Other People

January 9, 2009
Interview with Tony Alessandra author of People Smart with Family, Friends & Significant Others: Using the Disc Behavioral Styles Model to Turn Every Personal Encounter Into a Mutual Win 

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Do you have "people smarts"?

 

Tony Alessandra:
The ability to size up people and adapt or adjust the way they deal with those people to make that person feel more comfortable with them.
Tony Alessandra

 

How You Handle Change

July 20, 2009

Interview with Ariane de Bonvoisin author of The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Any Change (and Loving Your Life More)

 
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Mike Carruthers:
When you ask most people how well they cope with change in life, you typically hear….

 

Ariane de Bonvoisin:
“I hate change, I resist change, I’m bad at change…” So I know that is a very classic, typical response.

Ariane de Bonvoisin

Make Your Brain Work Better Part 2

 May 21, 2009

Interview with Richard Restak, M.D.author of Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance
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Mike Carruthers:
Perhaps one of the most important ways to make sure your brain keeps working well is to use it.

 

Richard Restak, M.D.:
What I call seeking "cognitively enhancing experiences" - people that you hang around, the things that you talk about, the things that you read about, constantly wanting to learn something new.

Dr. Richard Restak

 

Using Surprise To Your Advantage

 

May 4, 2009
Interview with Andy Nulman, author of Pow! Right Between the Eyes: Profiting from the Power of Surprise

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Mike Carruthers:
To be more successful, whether as a business or as an individual, one often overlooked strategy is the power of surprise.

 

Andy Nulman:
The definition here is it's the constant expansion of the boundaries of delightful extremes. What you want to make sure you do is delight a customer.


Andy Nulman

 

 

Premonitions

May 5, 2009
Interview with Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives

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Mike Carruthers:
What's the difference between intuition and premonition?

 

Larry Dossey, M.D.:
I can't really come up with any good distinction. Intuition is a much more socially acceptable way of describing this faculty than premonition, which is often linked with spooky mystical psychic stuff and people reject it for that reason.

 


Larry Dossey, M.D.

Where Your Beliefs And Ideas Come From

 July 28, 2009

Interview with Richard Brodie author of  Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
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Mike Carruthers:
We all like to believe we think for ourselves. But do we?

 

Richard Brodie:
A lot of the things we think of as being our own original ideas aren't really that way at all. We catch them from somewhere, we catch them from our upbringing, from TV.


Richard Brodie

 

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