TED: Dan Gilbert: You are always changing - Dan Gilbert (2014)

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"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Hint: that's not the case.

Why 'Star Wars' Adding More Women To Its Cast Matters

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It was officially announced yesterday morning that Walt Disney's Star Wars Episode VI would be adding two new cast members to the already announced participants. They are, to wit, Lupita Nyong'o who just won an Oscar for Twelve Years a Slave and Gwendoline Christie, best known for her work on television's Game of Thrones. They will be added to the 13 already-announced cast members, which includes six older actors from the original trilogy and seven newbies.

4 Real-Life Business Lessons From Game Of Thrones

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(MAJOR SPOILER WARNING: DON?T READ IF YOU?RE NOT CAUGHT UP WITH THE ENTIRE BOOK SERIES)

I?m a Game of Thrones fanatic. I started reading the series during a 1999 vacation in Portugal, where I sacrificed sightseeing in the Algarve to finish George R.R. Martin?s 835-page masterpiece. As a longtime fantasy reader, I was blown away, fascinated, astounded.

Old way or new way? Only one way works. My way.

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The old way of selling is dead. 
The only people who don’t know that are other sales trainers, recently released old-world sales tactics books that are still trying to convey old messages, and several million salespeople still trying to cold call, pitch the product, overcome objections, and close the sale. Don’t forget their managers who force them to use an uncomfortable “system, “ a non-sales helpful CRM, and hold their salespeople accountable for their actions and numbers. It’s over. Dead and over.
What killed it? 
Who killed it? 

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