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Loading ... Speaking at TED on the marketing of an idea, Seth Godin proposed three questions to verify change:
1. Who are you upsetting?
2. Who are you connecting?
3. Who are you leading?
Our memory system, says cognitive psychologist Gary Marcus, is “context-dependent rather than location-addressable,” which is how computers “remember.” We recall major events in our lives, but “have to hear a phone number five to 10 times before [we] can repeat it.” “Worse,” Marcus points out, “our memories are vulnerable to contamination and distortion. Lawyers can readily fool us.”
A mind-twisting article in Wired’s May issue quotes neurological researcher Stephen Macknik, “Tricks work only because magicians know, at an intuitive level, how we look at the world.” Adds Teller of Penn & Teller fame, “Giving the trick away [gives] nothing away because you still couldn’t grasp it.” Hmm. The magic of Bernie Madoff, now imprisoned CEOs, and defamed televangelists?
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What hinders productivity and increases stress is failure to clean up loitering vexations – those slight annoyances, anxieties, and distresses that we leave unresolved. Take four minutes to get one or more off your mind and out of your life.
You’ve figured out what separates you from the crowd. Now comes three tests of your courage to be different.
Making and learning from mistakes is viewed as healthy in many organizations. What’s unhealthy is that some people won’t let you forget. Here’s what you can extrapolate and apply from mistakes to help combat detractors and expunge the bad memory.
A simple plastic ring once kept lots of kids – and some adults — laughing and trim. A simple approach to organizational change rather than trying to digest a big-meal fad can do the same.
Aloneness in the U.S. has a certain cachet and swagger about it: the leader at the top, the entrepreneur. But for those who venture away from the crowd, aloneness is less about bravado and more about a nagging condition that many separatists don’t or won’t talk about, or even acknowledge. 
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