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Warning: this video will break your heart, but finish watching or you’ll miss critical events (hint, no multi-tasking; you need to watch!). Why no one helps Want to know the real reason why no one helped this boy? Because it’s easier to ignore him and pretend it’s not happening. This is what psychologists call the bystander effect or bystander apathy. It occurs when individuals fail to help a victim when other people are around....

I started a video blog documenting my journey fighting breast cancer across America. President-elect Barack Obama started a video blog documenting how he plans to implement change in America. What do we have in common? Absolutely nothing; His vlog is way better. So if you are like me and want to video blog like Obama, I offer these tips that I picked up from watching the President-elect’s weekly video address....

I wholeheartedly agree with Kelly. So, what makes a great question? Let’s look at a list from Kelly. Good questions are not concerned with a correct answer For each discussion, I created metaphors to further our understanding of what makes a good question. Metaphor: Answers are buried deep within our mind. While we might not find the right answer we are looking for, we will find better questions the deeper we dig....

Most articles about starting a business cover planning. Creating your business plan. Creating your marketing plan. Creating page upon page of plans, plans with great intentions and perhaps excellent potential for success. There’s nothing wrong with planning itself; if there was, I’m sure we wouldn’t see such an emphasis on it in business literature. But not so often mentioned is the dark side of planning, and it’s the dark side that captures many a bright and hopeful entrepreneur into its trap ensuring that their great ideas never see the light of day: overplanning....

This paranoid individual could be a friend of yours, or perhaps a relative. But one thing is for sure – they have a universal distrust of other people. You may remember a grandparent who was always suspicious of everyone who walked past their house. They would constantly peek out their windows, and stare intently at anyone who walked by. If they saw anyone acting even a little unusually, their imaginations would run wild, and they would quickly become agitated or panicky....

The Story of the $800 Jeans His talk was essentially an exploration into the psychology of shopping. I laughed as he (the journalist) expressed his disappointment at test-driving a pair of $800 jeans which looked, felt and ‘performed’ the same as his $50 jeans. Not only was there no discernible difference (to him), but over an entire week of wearing his new expensive duds, not one person complimented him on how amazing he (or they) looked....

Photosynthesis (Infographic)

It promotes learning about how to design useful work flows. It gives you a reason to try a new tool (Gliffy) It lets you consider how YOU do your digital photography flow. It offers you a model you can use on other projects you’re working on. So, if you’ve a few minutes and you want to contribute, check out Renaissance Man’s digital photography workflow. Let’s Diagram a Digital Photography Workflow – [Renaissance Man]

If you have been a GTD or any other type of productivity practitioner over the years, you have at least been in this situation once or twice. What tends to happen when you provide yourself with ubiquitous capture is that after awhile a lot of unimportant tasks may infiltrate their way into your system; unimportant tasks that may have sounded like a good idea at the time, but no longer hold any value, or worse, tasks that you know you should complete because of some agreement with yourself or others....

It’s not as if I have a lack of thoughts on this subject. It’s not as if I don’t spend my days enabling people to communicate powerfully and get what they want in life. So why the rewrites? I’ve found myself thinking about the diversity of people I’ve coached and how different we all can be. Usually when I write for Lifehack, I’m able to see instant commonality in the subject that means I could share some ideas that would resonate wherever you are in life, whoever you are, regardless of what you were looking to achieve or what adversity you may be facing....

Parenting 101 Yesterday at lunch, I had a fascinating conversation with my business partners Mikey and Johnny about parenting. Mikey has two kids (ages one and three), as does Johnny (seven and ten) and we discussed the merits and pitfalls of the various parenting styles. Of course we covered over-protective parents who don’t allow their kids to… well, be kids. We talked about parents who seem to hand their insecurities, fears and issues down to their off-spring....

The Last Lecture is a book based on an internet sensation, the “Last Lecture” given by computer scientist Randy Pausch at Carnegie-Mellon University. Pausch died tragically of pancreatic cancer in 2008; the principles he discusses in his last lecture (and in a companion lecture on time management, both of which are available on the internet) take on a whole new meaning in light of the fact that they were given by a man who was face-to-face with his own mortality....

Innovative Services to Protect Your Digital Assets — [Marketallica]

It may not suitable for some occasions but it is a simple and quick way to start learning conflict resolving skill. Are there any other good tips? You: “I understand you’re frustrated.” (respect statement) You: “Is it necessary to disrespect me to resolve this?” (respect question) You: “What can I do specifically to fix this and prevent it from happening again?” (outcome question) Got People Skills? – [Quick Verbal Tactics Dot Com]

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. I believe most of us assume the best in those we meet. That’s not always the case, but often it is. The most important part of this trusting thing is that others need to know they can trust us. In this post I’m going to give you several reasons why gaining trust with people is essential for relationships, growth, and (really) life all the way around....

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. But not many people realise that their self-confidence works just like a muscle – it grows in response to the level of performance required of it. Either you use it or you lose it. That’s why I’ve given you 63 ways to grow your confidence so that you can become a giant. 63 Ways to Build Self-Confidence

If you’re going through hell, keep going. It isn’t that we aren’t enthusiastic about what we do, or that we just can’t be bothered. We just need that little kick of motivation to get going. How to Get Going: 6 Tips for Improved Self-Motivation

But those stretching exercises, the way to make a s’mores, how to be happy being single, how to do a good makeup, and how to play guitar better are things that most people never master doing at the end. Technology has brought a surplus of information to the world, but it hasn’t made people smarter. The mere exposure to data doesn’t make people better thinkers and learners. The fact is, most people have never learned how to learn properly....