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Where Insights Come From

March 21, 2014 By Ben

I’ve been reading the book Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights. One of the 5 ways people gain insights that the book talks about is by making connections. Yesterday I stumbled across a funny video that connects three different clips that add up to a very funny video.  

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Perfect

March 5, 2014 By Ben

“Everybody has their one thing that they’re good at, and if you ever find it, you want to stick with it.” —Rick Baird It’s difficult to explain why I love this video so much. Maybe it has to do with taking something trivial very seriously, which would also explain why I love the humor of […]

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Focus on the process not the goal

March 4, 2014 By Ben

Read enough books and everything starts blurring together. I rarely recognize a good point in a book that I haven’t seen some version of before in another book. Stumbling on the video below reminded me of the book Zen and the Art of Archery where the author learns the same lesson of focusing on the […]

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Stop Trying So Hard

February 18, 2014 By Ben

This winter has been a mess, especially wednesday two weeks ago. Overnight, the clouds vomited a pile of snow onto Minnesota that made driving conditions an adventure. Against my better judgement, I chose to get coffee over lunch. I knew I would risk losing my parking space and have to drive through the unplowed Minneapolis […]

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