Social Blind Spots

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The things you can’t see

I’m not sure when it happened – perhaps covering anatomy within biology, but at some point in my youth, we explored the eye’s blind spot.

And it’s an interesting realization – that the mind will “fill in” what one can’t see – in order to make the picture complete.

And lately I’ve been considering the similar effect in the social world.

Are there spots that you can’t “see”?
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Finding a Niche at an Early Age

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Reflecting on early experiences

My vices are few, and I think they relate to such good experiences that I can’t help but to have fallen in love – with Chocolate, Gaming, and the Shower…  (I know, not what you might expect to see following the word vice, but they work for me)

The last of these because of the insights I find letting the water splash over me.
[you're not the only one .. I do some of my best thinking in the shower ... ed.]

And this morning? A trip back to summer camp as a 5th grader, and one of the lessons there.

Come along and you might find something to think more on…
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The Shovelator System!

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Book Review: Outliers

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Malcolm Gladwell’s look into the wildly successful

I continue to enjoy books by Malcolm Gladwell.  The latest I’ve read (or more precisely heard) being “Outliers: The Story of Success“. Before I had a chance to get this material first hand though, I listened to a friend review the book for a networking group. And as with Blink, I found a copy in the books-on-CD section of the library – read by Gladwell.  And so once again I enjoyed listening to the book, though my familiarity with the material made the experience seem odd.

Normally one might get a recommendation with a few words, or have only a brief introduction to the topic.  But as I progressed through the book I had the funny feeling that I had actually read that part of the book before;-)  My good friend (Jim) had done such a thorough job of covering the material that the examples and imagery was already complete in my mind – and here I was listening to it again.

Both events proved enjoyable and I see more of what it takes to succeed…

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Success in the Moment, or with Momentum?

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Insight vs follow through

As I reflect on the changing of calenders, the different nature of moment and momentum comes to mind. Do important things happen because we have a sudden insight, or do they happen because we get going and stay moving in the right direction?

The idea or inspirational thought that invokes change in our lives is important – but is it most important?

The work of getting things done is also important – the long string of success made up of a series of small successes – all leading in the same direction. But is it most important?

Which means more, inspiration or perspiration?
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