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		<title>Iconoclast: What does it take to be extraordinary?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the pursuit of excellence and freedom, there are a few domains to consider. One is the field of expertise, a major contribution of which, Deliberate Practice, I have discussed elsewhere. Yet what about those unique individuals who really change things? Those people (&#8216;freaks&#8217; &#8211; in a good way!) who change the world. What is different about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2011/02/iconoclast-what-does-it-take-to-be-extraordinary/</link>
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		<title>Delusions of Competence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was training with a black belt in my Aikido class. Having trained for many years, he appears an expert. His moves appear polished. He easily recognized and replicated the techniques that we were to practice like he had done it hundreds of times before. Yet I noticed something strange: He couldn&#8217;t do it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2010/06/delusions-of-competence/</link>
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		<title>Originality: Sir Ken Robinson, W.B. Yeats and Sir Elton John</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Ken Robinson and I share many things in common, particularly with respect to viewing the crisis of education. There is a great need for our society to be filled with more people who love what they do and less people who just go through the motions, a shift that may be facilitated by moving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2010/06/originality-sir-ken-robinson-w-b-yeats-and-sir-elton-john/</link>
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		<title>Who says the Earth revolves around the Sun?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were like me, you were probably taught that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and that it takes one year – a bit over 365 days – for the Earth to complete one such cycle. And you probably also learned that we didn’t always believe that. You might have learned about Ptolemy, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2010/04/who-says-the-earth-revolves-around-the-sun/</link>
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		<title>Treat it as a performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Delivering a presentation that is smooth, insightful and ends right on time can be a big ask. Lots of intelligent people mess it up. One of the speakers who really seems to get it right is Malcolm Gladwell. If you have ever watched him speak (like here on TED), you may notice how he speaks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2010/02/treat-it-as-a-performance/</link>
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		<title>Keep practising &#8211; especially as you get older!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months back I did a martial arts session with my original instructor. It had been a long time and I was far from my best, so I paired up with a relatively junior student for some padwork. He was young and strong and had been training hard for a few months. Little did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2010/01/keep-up-your-practice-as-you-get-older/</link>
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		<title>Choose your friends very carefully</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends have a huge impact on our performance. Really huge. Thank the next happy friend that you think of. Each happy friend increases our chances of being happy by 9%. An extra $5,000 in income only increases our chances by 2% so each happy friend we have is worth about $22,500 And check your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/</link>
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		<title>The Power of Ambiguity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever looked at a traffic accident and asked yourself, &#8220;How did that happen?&#8221; The other night, I was playing pool and sunk a ball that I didn&#8217;t expect to sink &#8211; in fact, it was so surprising that I asked myself, &#8220;How did I do that?!&#8221; But it&#8217;s even more obvious when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/10/the-power-of-ambiguity/</link>
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		<title>Being the best is a way of life, not a job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To be the best at what you do takes an extraordinary commitment. You&#8217;ll need to practise &#8211; spend hours and hours focused on getting better. You will change the way your brain works by altering the very connections of the neurons, and indeed every cell in your body. It&#8217;s a big deal. And you&#8217;ll want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/10/being-the-best-is-a-way-of-life-not-a-job/</link>
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		<title>Higher pay leads to worse performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should we encourage people to be creative? Most people would say &#8216;yes&#8217;. Should we reward people for being creative? Again, most people would say &#8216;yes&#8217;. The trouble is that financial incentives don&#8217;t work for creative tasks. When we are being rewarded for doing better, we tend to get trapped in our existing ways of thinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/09/higher-pay-leads-to-worse-performance/</link>
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