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Thinking about Boxes

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I was recently thinking about boxes. I wasn't just staring off into space daydreaming about cardboard boxes. That would be a little crazy!

I was thinking about the conceptual boxes we put ourselves and others in. 

It's part of our human design to label and categorize each other because doing so helps us navigate and make sense of the world. He's a hunter. She's a healer. They are bakers; you get it. On a survival level, this makes a lot of sense, but beyond that, it can actually limit our live…

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Buildings and Legacy

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I am a passionate world explorer, but there is one thing at the forefront of my itinerary when I travel to another country... architecture.

For some people, it's food; for others, it's museums, or maybe it's beaches. For me, it is definitely architecture.

In every culture around the world, there are buildings that are cornerstones of that society. They are part of the landscape of people's lives, and if they were suddenly gone, people would feel as if a part of them was missing.

From the Pyra…

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Creating Triumph From Tragedy With Charlotte Fowles

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Every challenge you face in your life is one step forward in developing resiliency. But isn't it better to become stronger and prepared for these unfortunate events even before they come your way? Tony Martignetti is joined by Executive Adventurer Charlotte Fowles to share her work in helping lost, frustrated, and confused corporate leaders redefine their purpose and passion. She looks back on building a courageous self after overcoming cancer, several miscarriages, and even death itself. Charlo…

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Kona Get Better

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Today I want to share something right from the heart. You see, we recently adopted our second puppy, Kona. Her name is inspired by our travels in Hawaii, which like her, is rich with color and full of life. I noticed the other night that she was very quiet and not her regular exuberant self, so I spent the night on the couch with her laying against my chest, but in the morning, she was moving slower, limping, and even throwing up. Oh boy!

There's a certain feeling that comes with caring for a g…

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Disrupt Yourself: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve

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When you disrupt yourself, you are walking into the unknown, exposing yourself to the risk of failure. Disrupt Yourself was published in 2015, but it is a book that is just as meaningful for our current times. Whitney Johnson applies Clayton Christensen’s concept of “disruptive innovation” to careers and personal development. She makes the compelling case that managing the S-curve of learning can help you make sense of and redefine your career path. The “S-curve” has slow growth at first, then e…

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Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses – Amy Whitaker

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Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses – Amy Whitaker

"If you are making a work of art in any field, you aren't going from point A to point B. You are inventing point B."

Amy Whitaker draws on art, psychology, science, business, and technology to help you generate new ideas in the practical world. She proposes using a mindset she calls "art thinking" to harness the joy and creative thought of making art with the structure and organiza…

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Step Into The Lab: Experiment Your Way to A New Life

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I can still remember my experience of being a pre-med student playing with expensive equipment, running experiments to test hypotheses, and seeing what I could discover. What I discovered was that I was more drawn to business, so I switched my major.

When I think about experiments now, I think about them from a completely different perspective. Our lives are our own personal research laboratory, and we need to continue to do more research until we figure out what is working and what isn't…

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Wayfinding

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Are you a Wayfinder? It took me most of my life to realize that I was a Wayfinder. 

A choice point came in my career where I trusted something inside myself over what everyone else said was the right direction, and it led me to discover a whole new quality of life and career.  

One example of a classic Wayfinder would be an ancient sailor who traversed the oceans, not by using maps but by noticing the subtleties of the world around them. 

They would pay careful attention to the wind, the temp…

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Getting Where You Want To Be With Ozan Varol

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Most of the time, we search for happiness in all the wrong places, and when we get there, we want to acquire more in life to believe that we have achieved success. Tony Martignetti talks with Ozan Varol about making the small moments count, making pivots when needed, and getting where you really want to be. Ozan is a former rocket scientist, turned award-winning professor, successful blogger, and the author of the number one bestselling book, Think Like a Rocket Scientist. In this episode, he sh…

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Make It A Masterpiece

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How is your life like your favorite painting? How is it different?

I have been thinking a lot about the creative process lately.  And how in the day-to-day rush to get things accomplished, we separate our creativity from the way we live our lives.  Maybe that works if we are going for robot-like productivity. But it's terrible for our deepest, truest selves.  

That's because we are all wired for creativity. And when we leave that out, we are leaving out a big part of who we are. We are leaving…

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