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Aristotle loved studying argumentation and the methods of appeal used to convince someone of a given idea. Aristotle believed that people can be persuaded by the following means: Ethos (an appeal to credibility) Pathos (an appeal to emotions) Logos...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 1 CommentVested Interests: Ask Yourself, “Does This Really Serve Me?”
One thing you often find is that there seem to be a great number of people out in the world whose chosen business is to make your life and circumstances, whatever they may be, seem much worse than they are. In fact, in your day-to-day life, you are probably...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 2 CommentsWhenever I speak to other business owners and ask them how they are doing, one thing I hear over and over is the following: “Things are going well and we are expanding.” In fact, I hear this statement so often, it is difficult to believe....
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed Leave a CommentSick Crows, Your Attitude, and Being on the Winning Team
Over the past week I have been witnessing something extremely unusual in my backyard. There is a crow outside, who appears to be ill – he’s not doing well at all. The crow appears to be infected with West Nile Virus. He wanders around appearing...
Filed under Featured, Staying Positive 6 CommentsScientific Advertising By Claude Hopkins
Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins is one of my favorite books. It is a classic book and something that many people I know who are extremely successful have claimed as the source of their success. The book was the first popular book to talk about...
Filed under Self Improvement Books Leave a CommentHow to Attract Success is a book I know you will enjoy greatly. Here, Sears introduces the concept of the Law of Harmonious Attraction. Under this law, things come to us in the world not because we want them to and make them do so; but because they want...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books Comments Off on How to Attract SuccessYour Job Search and Future Prospects Will Be Determined by the Company You Keep
I have had the most unusual series of interviews over the past few weeks. Yesterday I interviewed a woman who came in smelling like alcohol–to such an extent that my eyes were watering. I asked her about her record and she told me that she had...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 28 CommentsA long time ago, more than a decade back, I found myself standing on the side of the road, on a turnpike, somewhere on the East Coast of the United States. I had been dropped off on the side of this strange highway by a woman I was with, who, in a fit...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons Leave a CommentThe Best Way to Prepare for a Job Search and Interviews
Several years ago when looking for a position in Los Angeles, I interviewed with numerous law firms. In virtually every one of these interviews I ran across an attorney who knew not one, not two, not three—but numerous, numerous attorneys in my...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 6 CommentsOrder and Disorder and Your Career
Every single person, place, or thing that you encounter follows these laws, which present and repeat themselves time and time again. In fact, both order and disorder are good things because they can be used to lead to great improvement in our personal...
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