Article #673
You could have noticed that unsuccessful persons are afflicted with a mind-freezing ailment. Let’s call this illness My Excuse. Virtually every person has had at moderate dose, and as with any illness if never ever dealt with, it gets a whole lot worse. The person who has been repeating his very first year another five to ten times carries a bucketful of reasons to reveal why. The procedure goes something similar to this: “I’m not really performing too effectively here. What can I use for an excuse?”

Article #671
In truth, growth can only happen when the desire to move on is stronger than the desire to hold on. It is always a good idea to review your life and beliefs on an ongoing basis to make the process of your spiritual growth a little bit smoother, without needing a crisis to get you off the familiar safety nets. Here is a self-inquiry inventory to help you.

Article #670
Confidence is believing and trusting people as well as ourselves. It is also about knowing (perhaps an inner knowing) who you would be wise to trust and who you are better not totally trusting: Confidence can be a state of feeling certain.

Post #669
Friday Video: TED Talk – Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?

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Friday Video: TED Talk – By studying the properties of the universe’s largest pieces, says the Intel Science Fair award winner, we can learn quite a lot about scientific mysteries in our own world and galaxy.

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Friday Video: TED Talk – How do we decide who we are? Hetain Patel’s surprising performance plays with identity, language and accent — and challenges you to think deeper than surface appearances.

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Friday Video: TED Talk – Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain’s incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself.

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Friday Video: TED Talk – Nicolas Perony models the movement of animal groups to understand: what is the individual behavior that guides the behavior of the larger society?

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Friday Video: TED Talk – Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 — because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business.

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Friday Video: TED Talk (Part 1) – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.