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Para.1 = 3 parts yogurt to one part milk can substitute for buttermilk.
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Alfred P Sloan (CEO of GM from 1920 to 1955) was courteous but formal with everyone in him management team. He never used first names. Hi...
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Birth into the world is crucifiction of the spirit, and thecrucifiction of the body releases the spirit back into eternity.
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On the Nagasaki memorial: That which you think happened to you, you brought about. That which you did to others, happened to you.
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Images don't "mean" anything, they just are. They talk to some kernel in you that just is.
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A ritual is the dramatic or visual representation of a myth. You engage in the myth by participating, provided that you are caught up in ...
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Two things pull people together: Aspiration and terror.
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"A bore is one who deprives us of our solitude without providing companionship." -- Ortega y Gasset.
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Maslow's five values (survival, security, personal relationships, prestige, and self development) are the values for which people live wh...
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If you lost everything, what would keep you going?
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When a person's primary drive fails or is insufficient, they have to depend on the secondary drive. Jung calls this reversal enantiodromi...
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Freud saw sex as the main driving force in people, whereas Alfred Adler believed it is the will to power. Jung integrated these two ideas...
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217 Notice how people challenge themselves independently and praise them for their efforts.
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217 The difference between a step and a stumbling block is size: the trick is to make the steps low enough so you can take them, but high...
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214 Maybe PTSD is nature's Prolonged Exposure Therapy: reliving a memory to rob it of its power.
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212 You can tolerate anxiety if you define the moment of anxiety by why you're tolerating the anxiety, e.g., instead of "I'm feeling anxi...
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211 When something doesn't go the way you want, ask "why?" five times.
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195 Create the environment the learner needs to discover the solution, either by telling them (if there's one way to do it right) or by c...
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191 The day is a gift. What are you going to do with it?
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188 Respond to success with "Good. Okay, now do X."
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175 Teach how to love the act of learning what you're teaching. Teach how to love the learning process.
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171 Practice until you think of it as doing one thing, and chunk down mistakes into discrete parts you can do correctly.
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51¶3 Work on technique, seek constant critical feedback, and shore up weaknesses. How? When recording a song, re-record every track and...
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85¶2 Record yourself performing the task in slow motion so you can check your performance.
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85¶3 Coach yourself. Know what you're trying to learn by what you're doing, and do it by dividing it into small parts and taking it slow.
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117 Think how lucky you are to get to learn what you can learn.
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130 Define the exclusive club you want to join, and work toward becoming one of those guys.
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127 Surround yourself with cues to get busy.
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106 I want X later, so I better do Y like crazy right now.
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101 You can do it too.
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94 Stay willing to learn by enjoying making mistakes. Make the mistakes small enough to enjoy them.
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86 Practice based on a strategy and fix mistakes based on a strategy. Start everything with a strategy. Fix the strategy. You don't su...
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83 Practice in slow motion. Small parts in slow motion.
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80 Imitate someone talented at what you're trying to do.
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80 Divide a task into its smallest possible chunks, then speed up and slow down the task. Play with time.
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74 Fail better. Fail usefully.
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58 Work on what makes you happy that requires a little more skill than you have when you start. Between easy and possible is a pursuit. ...
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53 Foster an obsessive desire to improve.
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Myths are "other people's religion", and religion is misunderstood mythology. The misunderstanding comes from trying to interpret mytholo...
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Myths are like the kangaroo's pouch to our psyches, a second womb, that carries us through birth to maturity. Modern rational thinking ha...
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Barnum and Bailey's Circus once had a problem of people not wanting to leave the freak show tent, so they simply changed the exit sign to...
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Ancient societies handle aging and senility by granting elders the position of wise advisers. This worked because their world changed slo...
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A person who is torn between the attitudes of dependency and responsibility is a neurotic.
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The old Indian ritual of the wife throwing herself on her husband's funeral pyre is called sati, from the Sanskrit word sat, "to be". A w...
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Unlike all other creatures, humans are born too soon, and go through a very long period (15-20 years) of dependency. We are conditioned f...
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There are 3 orders of mythology: 1. Affirmative: They embrace life on its own terms (early mythologies) 2. Negative: They renounce real...
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The functions of mythology are to: 1. Reconcile the consciousness to the realities (and horrors) of life 2. Present an image of the cos...
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Technologies outside one's field are likely to have the greatest impact. Technologies now run crisscross rather than parallel.
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End-uses or even the means of delivery of products are no longer fixed. E.g. beer can be delivered in cans or glass bottles, and other me...
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The starting point has to be what customers consider to be value, which is almost always different from what the supplier thinks is value.