August 2007

Failure Friday: Silly Putty

August 31, 2007

Here’s a story of failure turning into success. From Wikipedia: Silly Putty was invented by James Wright of General Electric when he dropped boric acid into silicone oil. He was looking for a substitute for rubber. GE supplied the newly discovered dilatant compound to researchers around the world. None found a use for it, but [...]

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Cha-cha-cha-changes

August 30, 2007

Change is something we face every day. It’s unavoidable. You can do your best to resist change, but guess what? It still happens, whether you like it or not. Take Microsoft Office 2007, for example. It has completely changed. I mean, it looks and feels like a completely different program. Good-bye .doc files, hello .docx [...]

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Workplace Wednesday: IT Support

August 29, 2007

Let’s face it, IT is an industry built on negativity. Have you ever met an IT person? Negativity is their life blood. There entire job is either fixing problems or preventing problems. Just think about the things you may have installed on your personal computer. Do you have antivirus software? You better. It stops 17-year-old [...]

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Vick the Sick (insert any insult ending in ick!)

August 28, 2007
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I’ve been wanting to talk about this for awhile, but since this is America and people are innocent until proven guilty (or this case admit guilt) I’ve waited until the plea was given and the deal brokered.Michael Vick would have been saved by some serious negative thinking. An honest assessment of his “friends” would have [...]

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Media Monday: Weather or not

August 28, 2007

Sorry for the delayed post today. Hectic office day, not much I can do to prevent it. Anyway, as a public service, I always present the problems the media causes by disseminating destructive negativity. For example:The weather reports. Here is Houston, they always make the weather more negative than it needs to be. It’s not [...]

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Failure Friday: C is for Cookie

August 24, 2007

Every Friday I’ll post a failure that led to success. If you have any examples, feel free to email them to me.  I’m just trying to show negative experiences are vital to success. It’s part of negative thinking, it’s part of our daily lives. Too often, people try to avoid failure (which I certainly can appreciate) and look at failure as [...]

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The Stupid Factor

August 23, 2007

In this article about a virtual virus that hit “World of Warcraft”, researchers discovered something I’ve always known about, but few people have said out loud. The “Stupid Factor”. No, not Bill O’Reilly. How people naturally can do some stupid things: One was what she called the “stupid factor” – where some players, rather than [...]

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Workplace Wednesday: Engineering

August 22, 2007

A short post today for Workplace Wednesday. Every wednesday, I’ll spotlight how negative thinking is important to an industry or specific job. Today’s topic, I could probably write a book on, but I’m swamped in the office today so I will just give you a peek at the tip of the iceberg. Feel free to [...]

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First, kill all the “Yes” men

August 21, 2007

Last week we talked about no. This week we’ll talk about yes. Most likely next week we’ll talk about maybe. We’ll see. It’s always good to have at least one person in your group with a negative mindset. At least one, no more than two. More than two and you’ll want to shoot yourself. But [...]

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Proof of the Apocalypse

August 20, 2007

How bad are parents getting nowadays? Look at this fine example of the fall of mankind. You can’t tell me your first thought about this wasn’t “Someone’s going to die.” This is about as irresponsible as a parent can get. First we’re going to rent our children to a TV network. And we all know [...]

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