- How to be creative, idea #51: Be drunk and sleepy
A study claims that sleepy people (researchers studied a group of students), like a brain-damaged patient, benefit from the inability to focus. The study says that since the minds are drowsy and disorganized, they often …
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- How to be remarkable #201: Be a good teacher, It starts with giving a damn
Professor Tyler Cowen of Marginalrevolution blog, lists these qualities of a good, no great teacher: The most important lesson is to use the right textbook. Other than that, he lists:
1. Give a damn.
2. Get…
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- 11 ways to be an ideal air traveller: in short, be nice to others
When you lock up so many people in a confined space for considerable amounts of time, things happen - people loose their emotions on the smallest of things. Here's what we learnt about how to be a great air traveller fro…
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- How not to talk like a machine in business situations
Here is a list of overused business buzzwords used by users on LinkedIn, the social networking site for working professionals.
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- What do we learn from the world’s best presentations?
SlideShare, the presentations site, organizes 'World’s Best Presentation contest' annually. The winners of the 2010 edition have been announced.
The Top 3 presentations were:
1. Smoke – The Convenient Truth
2. YOU …
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- We need at least Rs. 4 crores to retire (and how to make it)
Note: This advice was meant for Indians but I think with few minor tweaks, namely, adjusted for stock market returns in the local market, this priceless piece of financial wisdom is almost universally applicable. Financi…
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- Be remarkable #126: Get companies to respond to your complaints
Here's how you can write the perfect complaint letter to a company. The main idea is to be concise and breezy. State the problem, what you want and that is all there is to it. Lifehacker has posted a template for the per…
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- How to be remarkable # 125: Don't be passionate
Be passionate. That is the first thing they teach you in the proverbial entrepreneurial school. That is also the first thing they teach in the carrer guides. That is also the first thing that tricks many people.
Becau…
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- The Essential Paul Graham: The Best of What Paul Has Ever Written
I first read Paul Graham and came to know about his ideas and work in 2005. Like Seth Godin or Guy Kawasaki, Paul Graham is a very accessible writer but he has an edge: He has actually created a successful technology sta…
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- Buster Benson's 17 Rules of Life
Buster Benson is the creator of 750words.com website. Buster's rules of life, as seen on his web site.
You must not dilly-dally.
You must be your word.
You must have good intentions.
You must admit to being the make…
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- The four minute presentation: Public Speaking Advice from the four minute men
The four minute men were a group who worked for the U.S. government in 1917, helping to convey important public messages to the general public ASAP. The advice they give isn't new but remember, this was almost 100 years …
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- Can you be a great person without being a jerk?
In business, greatness and the jerk habit often go side by side. Mark Zuckerberg now travels on the path set up by Bill Gates (he stole and lied with impunity) and Steve Jobs (a bully at workplace). The CEO/Superstar cul…
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- How to be remarkable # 101: Don't be a Self-Help Junkie
Who is a self-help junkie? Someone who reads too many self-help advice - books, blog posts, seminars, etc. and does little to to improve his lot. In the end, it all comes down to the old gem, "Get off your ass and do som…
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- Be Remarkable #89: Find your passion
For most working people, that is you and me, passion comes in form of making a living doing what you love, or in some cases, getting to love what you do. As the song goes, "Love the one you are with."
Anyway, how do y…
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- Two Useful Types of To-Do lists that actually work
What is the ideal size of a really great To-Do listMost people who use a To-DO list tend to have a long list of things to do, which may be working against your goals. Why, you may askLeo Babuata says , '(To DO list) suck…
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- Be Remarkable #88: Learn to present your idea
People who have done it will tell you that how an idea is presented impacts its appeal. Below is a checklist of ways to present your idea.:
A presentation.
A feasability report.
A mockup out of cardboard.
A prototy…
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- Be Remarkable #87: Let go off your inhibitions
We are not talking about shyness in social situations here, although in some cases, this is what that is preventing you from taking that step, you know We are talking about becoming unstuck of all mental consciousness, g…
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- The Ten All-Time Great Rules of Working better
These rules are not from a business or self-help book, but rather from a popular list shared around on the internet. In some ways, it is better this way. The rules are obvious, yet simple, nothing of the self-important p…
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- Be Remarkable #86: Turn things off
Do not let technology overtake your life. Help, yes. But dependentNever. Although, I run a small site for a living (if you can call it a living), I can easily cut down on online activity and go back to my books, printout…
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- Be Remarkable #85: Say no to consultants
Mentors, yes. Consultants, no. Do your own thinking. You are in the field, the consultants aren't. The way to analyzing your business dispassionately is simple: What would an observer from the sky think looking at your b…
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