motivation

Scalzi, the world famous sci fi author and lover of pies, has created some interesting motivational posters.

create your own mall motivational poster

Patti send me this and I wanted to pass it along. Inspiring little movie to remind us that one person can bring big changes.

Just met the author, Peter Han, this afternoon. He works full-time for Microsoft and wrote this book about 2 years ago to answer his own question of what makes people strive to become excellent and successful. The book includes content from interviews with 100 different CEOs, scientists, etc. His talk was very interesting, and I expect this book to be the same.

Interesting fact: He had to call about 2000 different successful people to find 100 that were willing to talk to him.

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Classic inspirational video/song from Baz Luhrman.

Quoted: Baz Luhrman

I really enjoy reading "Seed" and "New Scientist" for daily insights like this. The broader question to me is about motiviation and upbringing. I was brought up believing that certain people were just "gifted" in certain areas. I kind of always kept looking for what I was "gifted" in. How different would it have been if I had instead been told that to acheive mastery in anything just applies focus and practice (as all of the new research points to).

Tiger Woods is not necessarily a great golfer because he was gifted. He worked harder for it than anyone around him and had people help him understand how to work through his hurdles.

I'd love to move towards a culture of mentorship where you can explore all of your interests with mentors who help you get better in your chosen areas.

Quoted: New research shows that when women believe they are genetically bad at math, the belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.