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Spark Naked
Oct 28th
You can’t start a fire, you can’t start a fire without a spark…
At times we grope and we strain against hope in “finding something to write about.”
That link leads to a Google search, which turns up more than a quarter of a billion entries.
You could read 100 of those links a day, every day, for the next 6,931 years, and still have 18,500 links left unread.
That’s a lot of reading to do, in order to find an inspiration.
Why not go outside and go for a walk?
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Everybody Has A Story
Jul 28th
…even if they aren’t already aware of it.
Everybody Has A Story
I was conducting a presentation skills seminar for a group of engineers, and I was using one of my favorite exercises. Tell me a story in a sentence. Now tell it again in 30 seconds. Now tell it in 90 seconds. (It also works with children, sometimes to disastrous effect.)
In this case, we were preparing these engineers to go into high schools and middle schools, to get children fired up about math, science and engineering careers. Before you can get others fired up, you have to figure out what lights your fire. There was one young man in the back who didn’t know he had a spark… More >
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