by Jeff Price | Mar 26, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
I love stories about successful people – well, I guess that stands to reason as people typically don’t pay thousands of dollars to hear about someone who is a failure. However, what we often find out is that when we read or hear about successful people,...
by Jeff Price | Mar 25, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
What are the consequences of believing that your intelligence or personality is fixed, rather than something that you can develop and expand over time? That is the fundamental question posed by Doctor Carol Dweck in Mindset: The New Psychology of...
by Jeff Price | Mar 11, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
Our brains also look for patterns and connections – people who are good at recognizing patterns can be successful in many endeavors – those who cannot, tend to repeat the same mistakes over and over, and wonder why they do that. Ever hear the...
by Jeff Price | Mar 9, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
Remember the movie The Mighty Ducks? There is a scene in the movie when the lead character played by Emilio Estevez decided that the only way to win was to have his team fake penalties and injuries. The team battle cry became take the fall, fake the injury, get...
by Jeff Price | Mar 8, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
Okay, well DiSalvo talks about the “what the hell,” effect but WTF is a stronger hook. Ever been out to dinner with people, maybe a business luncheon or dinner, and despite your best intentions to stay with your diet, you end up eating everything you can...
by Jeff Price | Mar 7, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
When I was about nine or ten years old, I had just finished cleaning my room. It looked so good it could have passed inspection by R. Lee Ermey himself (this is my bedroom, there are many like it, but this one is mine. . . ). Well, shortly after the great cleanup, I...
