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1. Crazy is a compliment. If everybody says you’re nuts, you just might be onto something. Therefore: The only valid response to someone who uses that word to describe you is, “Thanks!” As Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations, “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” Your mission is to (not only) be nuts,…

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1. Accepting. Don’t accept anyone else’s version of the truth. Don’t accept payment in politeness. Don’t accept the verdict that you’re not enough. Don’t accept that everyone you encounter has your best interests at heart. Don’t accept that life is out to get you. What have you mindlessly accepted? 2. Allowing. Don’t allow others’ neuroses to color your perceptions. Don’t allow the genius to be drummed out of you….

“If everybody says you’re nuts – you just might be onto something.” That mantra guides my daily life. Which makes sense, considering I made an entire career out of wearing a nametag everyday. I know. Just another crazy idea, right? Damn right. That’s the whole point. That crazy people who have crazy ideas make crazy change in a crazy world. What about you? How many crazy ideas did you…

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A sponge is a loosely connected fibrous material primarily filled with empty space. Woops. Wrong kind of sponge. What I meant was: A sponge is an individual whose openness, curiosity, creativity and intellectual absorbance significantly enhances his personal and professional life. HERE’S THE REALITY: Sponges learn more. Which means sponges grow more. Which means sponges create more. Which means sponges profit more. How squishy! What about you? Are you…

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“Of course you’re crazy – that’s why we hired you!” When the president of a multimillion-dollar staffing company made that exact remark to me five minutes before I walked on stage to conduct a three-hour workshop with two hundred of her salespeople, I almost tripped and fell over the podium. Finally, I thought. My insanity was affirmed. My craziness was commended. Take that, every teacher who gave me failing…

The human need to feel needed by (and valuable to) the world is about as deep as they come. Here are some ideas to help you (and/or) your organization matter: 1. Make soaring unpreventable. The first time I heard Dave Matthews play the song he wrote for his wife called Loving Wings, I was brought to tears. The chorus goes: “I give to you my everything. You’ve given me…