Anyone who has seen Bill Gates’ 2009 TED Talk will never forget it! While on stage, Gates grabbed a glass jar, opened it up and said, “Malaria is, of course, transmitted by mosquitos. I brought some here, just so you could experience this. We’ll let those roam around the auditorium a little bit.
Imagine that you are working in the White House as the social secretary for the President of the United States. One of your bosses, the First Lady of the United States Laura Bush, asks you to invite all of the people who were in their wedding party to a private anniversary party.
Why is it that so many of us are addicted to checking our social media a bazillion times per day? Well, according to human behavior author Vanessa Van Edwards, one of the primary reasons is that “we like to know that our friends and followers both like us and are like us.”
Reading through the introduction of The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird, I was a little intrigued by a statement that they made.
It was a hot summer day last year and I just had a couple more emails to send. Then I could head out to dinner with my Uncle Albert who was in town visiting. While I was typing furiously on my laptop, he was on my couch enjoying a cold beer and watching TV.
