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"Under pressure, dignity and self-restraint are vital " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Friends laugh at our stories even when they're not so funny and sympathize with us in your troubles even when they're not so bad." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Help others like themselves more and rest assured they'll like you more." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"People who know they are wrong but will not admit it, love themselves more than the truth." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"The best answer is doing the thing they said couldn't be done. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinion. Everyone else is also entitled to ignore it, hopefully after considering if it has any merit for them. This is the meaning of free speech." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"I think good, diplomatic communication is like singing a song well - by removing all the scratchy, off-key [negative] notes. Expressing negatives shows; a lack of understanding how counter-productive they are [negatives bring more negatives]; a lack of imagination to find a way to express the same ideas positively [positives bring more positives]; and a lack of emotional self-discipline.
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"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction...usually criticism.
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"In a disagreement, remember it is not who is right but what is right." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Honesty is not the best policy, it is the only policy! [for decent people]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Self-praise is no recommendation. Be humble and let your actions and achievements speak for you!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Confront problems but don't be confrontational. [So confront the problem and not the person.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Never become visibly angry or frustrated. It is counter-productive to every endeavour, personal or professional, in life." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Tolerance can be developed by remembering it takes all sorts of people to make a world." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"If you keep your mouth shut, you can't put your foot into it." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"With everyone you meet, be kinder than you think is necessary, because while it may not be obvious at first they are fighting some kind of challenge." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Everyone appreciates being appreciated!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"It will help your conversation, as well as improve your mood, if each night before going to sleep you think of, or even write down permanently in a diary, three interesting things that happened to you today that you can talk to others about tomorrow." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"If you want to communicate clearly, rather than sound smart, use short, common words to express your meaning. Remember, 'Never put a policeman in an automobile, when a cop in a car will do.'" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Be 'an island of calm in a sea of trouble' and weather any storm." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them FEEL." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Always ask about and listen carefully to other people's opinions rather than assuming because as the saying goes, 'Only the wearer really knows where the shoe pinches'." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Skill and tact with people, including being a good conversationalist, opens the door to more comfortable and rewarding relationships with friends, family and at work. Like all skills, anyone's natural ability can be polished. One of the best books to get someone started on this is Dale Carnegie's best seller, 'How To Win Friends and Influence People'. Another helpful resource is the website conversationmatters.com. Once you get to see how much these simple ideas can help I'm sure you will enjoy even richer relationships with others." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Everyone makes mistakes, even experts. So don’t trust others blindly! Buddha makes this same point – “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious [and other] books [newspaper or other media]. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." It is important to take this into account when others are criticising or discouraging. Also when you or another person makes a mistake, don’t be too hard on yourself or them, you or they are not the first and won’t be the last. Just try to use it to grow in compassion, understanding and wisdom so you and they can make the future better for everyone in the future.]
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Money—Invest-
[Just before the worst stock market crash and subsequent worldwide depression, 1927-1933]
--"We will not have any more crashes in our time."
- John Maynard Keynes in 1927.
--"I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future."
- E. H. H. Simmons, President, New York Stock Exchange, January 12, 1928.
--"There will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity."
- Myron E. Forbes, President, Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., January 12, 1928.
--"No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquility and contentment...and the highest record of years of prosperity. In the foreign field there is peace, the goodwill which comes from mutual understanding."
- Calvin Coolidge, December 4, 1928.
--"There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash."
- Irving Fisher, leading U.S. economist , New York Times, Sept. 5, 1929.
--"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months."
- Irving Fisher, Ph.D. in economics, Oct. 17, 1929.
--"This crash is not going to have much effect on business."
- Arthur Reynolds, Chairman of Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, October 24, 1929.
--"There will be no repetition of the break of yesterday... I have no fear of another comparable decline."
- Arthur W. Loasby (President of the Equitable Trust Company), quoted in NYT, Friday, October 25, 1929.
--"We feel that fundamentally Wall Street is sound, and that for people who can afford to pay for them outright, good stocks are cheap at these prices."
- Goodbody and Company market-letter quoted in The New York Times, Friday, October 25, 1929.
--"This is the time to buy stocks. This is the time to recall the words of the late J. P. Morgan... that any man who is bearish on America will go broke. Within a few days there is likely to be a bear panic rather than a bull panic. Many of the low prices as a result of this hysterical selling are not likely to be reached again in many years."
- R. W. McNeel, market analyst, as quoted in the New York Herald Tribune, October 30, 1929.
--"Buying of sound, seasoned issues now will not be regretted"
- E. A. Pearce market letter quoted in the New York Herald Tribune, October 30, 1929.
--"Some pretty intelligent people are now buying stocks... Unless we are to have a panic -- which no one seriously believes, stocks have hit bottom."
- R. W. McNeal, financial analyst in October 1929.
--"The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin."
- Stuart Chase (American economist and author), NY Herald Tribune, November 1, 1929.
--"Hysteria has now disappeared from Wall Street."
- The Times of London, November 2, 1929.
--"The Wall Street crash doesn't mean that there will be any general or serious business depression... For six years American business has been diverting a substantial part of its attention, its energies and its resources on the speculative game... Now that irrelevant, alien and hazardous adventure is over. Business has come home again, back to its job, providentially unscathed, sound in wind and limb, financially stronger than ever before."
- Business Week, November 2, 1929.
--"...despite its severity, we believe that the slump in stock prices will prove an intermediate movement and not the precursor of a business depression such as would entail prolonged further liquidation..."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES), November 2, 1929.
--"... a serious depression seems improbable; [we expect] recovery of business next spring, with further improvement in the fall."
- HES, November 10, 1929.
--"The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most."
- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics at Yale University, November 14, 1929.
--"In most of the cities and towns of this country, this Wall Street panic will have no effect."
- Paul Block (President of the Block newspaper chain), editorial, November 15, 1929.
--"Financial storm definitely passed."
- Bernard Baruch, cablegram to Winston Churchill, November 15, 1929.
--"I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress."
- Andrew W. Mellon, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury December 31, 1929.
--"I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence."
- Herbert Hoover, December 1929.
--"[1930 will be] a splendid employment year."
- U.S. Dept. of Labor, New Year's Forecast, December 1929.
--"For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright."
- Irving Fisher, Ph.D. in Economics, in early 1930.
"...there are indications that the severest phase of the recession is over..."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES) Jan 18, 1930.
--"There is nothing in the situation to be disturbed about."
- Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, Feb 1930.
--"The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity."
- Julius Barnes, head of Hoover's National Business Survey Conference, Mar 16, 1930.
--"... the outlook continues favorable..."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES) Mar 29, 1930.
--"... the outlook is favorable..."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES) Apr 19, 1930.
--"While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst -- and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us."
- Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, May 1, 1930.
--"...by May or June the spring recovery forecast in our letters of last December and November should clearly be apparent..."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES) May 17, 1930.
--"Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over."
- Herbert Hoover, responding to a delegation requesting a public works program to help speed the recovery, June 1930.
--"... irregular and conflicting movements of business should soon give way to a sustained recovery..."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES) June 28, 1930.
--"... the present depression has about spent its force..."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES), Aug 30, 1930.
--"We are now near the end of the declining phase of the depression."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES) Nov 15, 1930.
--"Stabilization at [present] levels is clearly possible."
- Harvard Economic Society (HES) Oct 31, 1931.
--[Eventually the situation deteriorated so badly that the following was stated when gold was appropriated by the government from its citizens] "All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S."
- President F.D. Roosevelt, 1933.
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Property--Travel-
--"There is no danger that the 'titanic' will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers." - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President, 1912. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. She carried 2,224 people.
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Work—Leadership-
--"You will never amount to very much." - A Munich teacher to a ten-year-old Albert Einstein, 1889.
--"That kid can’t play baseball." - Tommy Holmes, Milwaukee Braves minor league manager, 1952, appraising Henry Aaron, who went on to break Babe Ruth's all-time record for home runs.
--“Just so-so in center field." - – New York Daily News after the premiere of Willie Mays, 1951.
--"He’ll never be any good." - Robert Irsay, Baltimore Colts owner, 1983, evaluating future Pro Bowl and Super Bowl champion quarterback John Elway.
--"You ain’t going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck." - Jim Denny, Grand Ole Opry manager, 1954, firing Elvis Presley after one performance.
--"We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." - Decca Recording Company 1962, upon turning down the Beatles.
--“Can’t act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little.” - MGM executive in 1929, about Fred Astaire’s screen test.
--“You better get secretarial work or get married." - Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency, advising would-be model Marilyn Monroe in 1944.
--“I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." - Gary Cooper on declining the lead role in what was to become one of the biggest grossing movies of all time, ‘Gone with the Wind’.
--"Get rid of the pointed ears guy." - NBC television executive to Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, 1966, recommending the new show eliminate the Vulcan character Mr. Spock.
--“I’m sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language." - – The San Francisco Examiner, rejecting a submission by Rudyard Kipling in 1889.
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Work—Make-
--"Everything that can be invented, has been invented. " - Charles Duell
U.S. Patent Office Commissioner, 1899.
--"There will never be a bigger plane built. " - A Boeing engineer after the first flight of the 247, a twin-engine plane that carried ten people.
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Work—Sell-
--“The phonograph has no commercial value at all." - Thomas Edison American inventor, 1880s.
--“The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad." - The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer Horace Rackham not to invest in the Ford Motor Company, 1903.
--“The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." - A corporate memo from telegraph operator Western Union, 1876.
--"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" - associates of RCA founder, David Sarnoff, circa 1920’s, when he proposed investing in the young radio industry.
--"[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night" - Darryl F. Zanuck, Twentieth Century-Fox studio boss, 1946.
--"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn’t likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market." - Business Week, August 2, 1968.
--"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’ the idea must be feasible." - Yale University management professor comment on a paper written by Fred Smith proposing an overnight delivery service, circa early 1970's. Smith went on to start Federal Express.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
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--“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. " - Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French Military Strategist and Future World War 1 Commander, in 1911." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Comedy can not only make us laugh but also provide valuable insights. A couple of well constructed one-liners are often more effective than extensive discussions or large slabs of written material." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"During a crisis, usually the first thing to get dropped, unfortunately, is courtesy. That is precisely the opposite of what is required. A heightened level of politeness during a crisis will smooth everyone's nerves and improve teamwork." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"It takes two to communicate truth - one to speak and another to hear." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Two uncivilized, unreasonable and now quite common methods of debate are 'ad hominem' attacks - attacking the person rather than the 'ball' and 'straw man' attacks - where the position of the other person is misunderstood or misrepresented and then that argument is disproved. Both methods reflect poorly on the user and should be carefully avoided." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Individuality with humility is about living to express, not to impress." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"When you must criticise, to help another improve, remember to enthusiastically and genuinely praise twice as much as you reluctantly and gently criticise because our egos are easily bruised." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"When using language, to be a good communicator like tactful diplomats and persuasive leaders, be aware of what the words used connote - that is subtly express in associated feelings and attitudes - as well as their literal meaning! For example on a BBC radio program in 1948, philosopher Bertrand Russell playfully conjugated an 'irregular verb' as 'I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool.' Other examples of words with similar meaning but different associated feelings are: 'I have reconsidered it; you have changed your mind; he has gone back on his word' and 'I glow, you perspire, he sweats like a pig.'" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Don't take a side until you've heard all sides!!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Many highly respected philosophers and psychiatrists believe that the ultimate reason we do anything is to be happy. Therefore it may be the wisest, most intelligent and most moral thing you can do to explicitly make your highest life goal to consistently be one of the happiest people you know and to continually increase the level of happiness each year for yourself, those you love, and those you serve through work [for example by improving and using all the imaginative advice for all the need areas, especially fun, on the imagi-natives website]!!!
" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Ego is inversely proportional to wisdom. The more wisdom the less ego. The less wisdom the more ego. [The more wisdom the more humble. The less wisdom the less humble. Note there is a huge difference between knowledge and wisdom.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Criticism and negativity:] Some people will throw stones at you and your path. It depends on you what you choose to make with them - wall or bridge? Remember you are the architect of your life. You alone choose how you respond to what happens to you." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Freedom of thought, speech, expression and the press and lack of censorship is important or else how can anyone have any hope of making fully informed choices which is necessary for true freedom." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"There are two rules to successfully making a speech: 1. Don’t tell people everything you know!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"There are always ways to 'spin' the facts to support the conclusion that a person desires to communicate. For example during 2013 and 2014 the politicians wanted to suggest the world economy was improving. So when oil price increased in 2013 they said this was due to the world economy improving and so demand for petrol was increasing. In 2014 when oil prices decreased they said this was positive for the world economy as it would mean that less money would be spent on petrol and so more money would be available for people to spend on their other desires. It is not difficult to imagine 'spin' that would have shown that both these prices in oil would have been bad for the world economy. This is why being skeptical is important so that information used to help people choose is as truthful and unbiased as possible!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
[Refer http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-05/only-thing-more-bullish-economy-lower-oil-prices http://www.wsj.com/articles/lower-oil-prices-will-help-boost-global-economy-imfs-lagarde-says-1417479908 http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2013/12/31/oil-gas-prices-2013/4270465/ ]
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"If you find yourself in an argument decide to win your own and any observer's respect by being, between all those involved, the quietest and calmest." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[With others...] In life and death remember ABC: Always Be Curious.
" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"How to talk to someone who is difficult, aggressive, disagreeable, etc: 1) Pause before responding to anything - count to 10 if necessary - to ensure you have your mind and emotions completely under control; 2) Be as agreeable as truth allows:- Make a game of trying to find and repeatedly stress anything - no matter how small - that you have in common or agree on; 3) Be aware of real or imaginary onlookers:- don't focus on beating your 'opponent' as this is almost impossible by the nature of their 'personality disorder' in that situation - rather focus on 'winning' over the people listening in - i.e. so stay classy and respected." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"When you see something beautiful in someone, tell them. It may take a second to say, but for them it could last a life time." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Criticism and lack of confidence in you:] When someone tells you you're incapable of doing something, they are only right if you believe them." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Happiness and gratitude:- If depression has been defined as too low a rate of positive experiences then we can help improve depression and unhappiness by increasing the number of positive experiences we have by doing more things we like and-or by liking more things we do. The former requires more planning and the latter involves being more grateful for each experience we have. We can be more grateful by changing the yardstick we use to value it or in other words by changing what we compare it to. Specifically if we compare any experience we have - even a horrible one - with something worse then we feel relieved, grateful and happy that things are not worse, while if we do the reverse and compare any experience - even a wonderful one - with something better we feel frustrated and bitter. While this latter experience of being a perfectionist - where we focus on how everything could be better - may be good for bringing out our and others best performances, when it comes time for enjoying ourselves then it pays to take the other approach and rather than comparing with how it could be better, compare the experience and performance, etc., with how it could be worse. Both attitudes have their place but knowing when to use which depending on what you want to achieve at that moment - either success or happiness - is the key to both a successful and a happy life for you and those around you!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"To encourage understanding and compassion between people, it is helpful to communicate with and model empathy. This can be done through: using your imagination to put yourself in the other person’s position as well as your own; highlighting and creating safety and trust; I statements that follow the format of honestly stating ‘when I hear-see-etc x, I feel y and I desire z’, curiously and gently clarifying and confirming terms and understandings of the other’s feelings, thoughts and positions using questions and validating as much as can but at least some small part of their clarified position, while being non-judgmental about the rest until you can gain their a confirmed understanding of their side and only then get permission to ‘explore’ where you are ‘perhaps temporarily a little further apart’." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"One of the master skills of good communication is brevity and simplicity. This takes thought. At first all the ideas and details need to be associated, and roughly collected and organized, in the imagination - and if there is time on paper. Then they need to be prioritized and edited down to the time available. The importance of the latter editing skill is expressed in the following quotations: Mark Twain is supposed to have said, ‘I’m sorry this letter is so long. I didn’t have time to make it shorter’; Pascal wrote, ‘I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead’ and; US President Woodrow Wilson, when he was asked how much time it took him to prepare a speech said, ‘That depends on the length of the speech. If it is a ten-minute speech it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; if it is a half-hour speech it takes me a week; if I can talk as long as I want to it requires no preparation at all. I am ready now.’" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"When interacting with others I find it helpful to remember three key ideas using the acronym CIA which stands for: remember your emotions are Contagious; be Interested in them and; try to be Agreeable. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Doubt and skeptical questioning are important in the search for useful, objective truth to give informed consent and guide wise choice because...] There is a great deal of mistaken misinformation and deliberate fraud in the world! This is for a number of reasons! They include human inattention, inpatience, ignorance, self-interest, greed, envy and malice. This is then compounded, by - timing as satirist Jonathan Swift said, ‘Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it’ - and rational effort as described by Brandolini’s Principle which states ‘The amount of energy needed to refute fraud is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it’." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Learn; Imagine; Persist; Evolve; Progress; Leadership; Children; -Conversation; Gratitude; Satisfaction; Enjoyment; - high anticipation and high expectations:] I have heard from many people that they don’t want to set high goals and have high expectations and anticipate high achievements because they have learned that to do so they would feel the painful bite of disappointment should they fail. So as a defense mechanism to protect themselves from potentially feeling disappointment or failure, they would keep their goals, aspirations and expectations low and thereby avoid feeling let down if things didn’t go as planned. That was certainly my experience too. But I found that the problem with setting low goals and expectations was that this effected my own ambition, motivation, drive, persistence and capacity to push myself beyond my past comfort zones and strive for higher achievements, as well as those around me, including my family, friends and staff. That I and they would then be deliberately settling for mediocrity and not putting in the effort required to even try to reach my and their full potential for their good and the good of all concerned. I also couldn’t see how individuals, families - including children, groups, teams, companies, countries, societies, etc would achieve, advance, improve, grow, evolve (especially self-actualize from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs) and progress without setting high goals, expectations and role modelling these to and for others. So low expectations as a solution came, I thought, with too high costs to those that used it, including myself and those I cared about. I thought there must be better solution than just either feeling great pressure and disappointment in not meeting the goals or feeling little pressure and not living up to a person’s potential for achievement and happiness. My eventual solution was to set high goals, expectations, role models and to enjoy anticipating reaching these WHEN LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE and trying to be motivated and grow and improve my own and others’ lives. But should I or others not reach those high aspirations I realised that to avoid the feeling of disappointment, failure and unhappiness and becoming demoralised, I and they would need to employ the human ability to not only compare THE PAST AND THE PRESENT with something better and thereby feel bitter, disappointed and frustrated but that at that point and position in a deliberate attempt, intention and goal to feel better, that I and they could and should then deliberately choose to compare THE PAST AND THE PRESENT with something worse, rather than better, and therefore feel encouraged, relieved and gratefully happy that the situation was not worse. Then I and they could feel and encourage themselves and others to be motivated and energized to learn from the experience and try again or for something even better next time. This would then be good for me, those I care about, those I am leading and for society, civilisation and humanity in general.
" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
[Please also refer to the articles below that discuss the relationship between low expectations, disappointment, ambition, and motivation:
--- https://www.verywellmind.com/expectation-vs-reality-trap-4570968
--- https://sonyalooney.com/the-paradox-of-expectations-pressure-and-comparison-in-sport-and-life/
--- https://serendipitism.com/motivation-aspirations-expectations/ ]
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"[Conversation, persuasion and effective sales explanations, demonstrations, questions, rebuttles, objections, dismissals and rejections: The emotion of anger - and its associated behavior force, while often natural, are rarely the most constructive - or socially acceptable and civilized - ways to overcome an unmet need or frustrated desire - a problem, puzzle, difficulty, etc. At these times it is better to get more information so you can learn, imagine, plan and problem-solve better, alone and with the help of others. So remember... ] Get curious, not furious!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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