by Jeff Price | Apr 2, 2013 | Life & Career Success
There is a great line in the movie Act of Valor when the SEALs are being chased by the bad guys and they find out that they are unable to go to any of their back up rally points to meet the rescue boats. One of the SEALs then tells the guys driving the truck that...
by Jeff Price | Apr 1, 2013 | Life & Career Success
Anyone who even remotely knows me, knows that I love books about our nation’s special operations community. These are the front line personnel who are at the top of their game. Second place doesn’t enter their vocabulary and they are always striving to...
by Jeff Price | Mar 31, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
I love movies. One of my favorites is the original Karate Kid series (okay, not Karate Kid II so much but the first and third ones were cool). There is a great line in KK III, where the bad guy “Terry Silver,” (portrayed by Thomas Ian Griffith), tells the...
by Jeff Price | Mar 28, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
As a result of standardized testing and the importance placed on performing well, there is the strong potential that we have plenty of wasted intelligence out in the world. Many parents like to find out that their child is special – of course, because who wants...
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...
