3 Habits That Are Keeping You From Producing Breakthrough Results

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Steve Jobs! Mark Zuckerberg! Elon Musk! All of them have produced (and, in some cases, are continuing to produce—although Steve has lowered his output a bit) breakthrough results! What must it be like to live in their world, to breathe their rarefied air! Well, here’s the thing. Breakthrough results are not limited to the elite few. You can produce breakthrough results just as well as anyone else. But first, you may need to let go of some of the habits ...

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How One Question Invented Bill Nye the Science Guy

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You all know Bill Nye the Science Guy. If you’re of a certain age, you grew up watching him on TV. If you’re beyond a certain age, your kids grew up watching him on TV. But did you know that Bill Nye the Science Guy was invented out of desperation on January 10, 1987? And it all happened because a low-paid comedy writer asked a different question.

Motivational Speaker Bill Stainton

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Try This Simple Trick to Solve Your Next Problem

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How often have you gotten stuck while looking for a new idea, or seeking the solution to a problem? Want to know a cool way to get unstuck?

Motivational Speaker Bill Stainton

When I was writing television sketch comedy, I used to have a lot of trouble coming up with endings to my sketches (endings are notoriously difficult). I’d work out a nice premise, ...

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Why the “Second Right Answer” is a Bad Idea

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In his wonderful book, A Whack on the Side of the Head (still one of the seminal books about creativity), Roger Von Oech talks about the concept of looking for the Second Right Answer. The idea is that most people (and you can substitute “people” with “leaders,” “teams,” and even “organizations”), when looking for a solution to a problem or challenge, stop after coming up with a solution. A solution. One, single solution. But just because it’s the first solution ...

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How to Find Great Ideas Today

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (now, for example): good ideas are everywhere. The problem is that most of us don’t know how to look for them. We don’t see them, because many times good ideas come disguised as something else. Sometimes we have to work a little to see the application to our own lives and ...

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Get Away to Get Creative

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If you want to spark your natural sense of creativity, it helps to get away from your normal surroundings — by half a block, or half a world!

Motivational Speaker Bill Stainton

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Smart Leadership: The View from Outside

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This weekend I’ll be in Utah speaking to a group of credit union leaders. Although I’m a credit union member, I’m not a credit union leader, nor do I work in the credit union industry.

Next week I’ll be in Michigan speaking to the staff of a company that makes, among other things, high-end wheelchairs. Although my sister uses a high-end wheelchair, I don’t work in the wheelchair industry.

The following week I’ll be in Tacoma speaking to a large health insurance ...

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