Posted December 21, 2011 at 12:04 am
One of the best “gut check” vids you’ll ever watch:
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Posted December 16, 2011 at 12:12 am
Water.org co-founder Matt Damon took some major shots to his ego, and his velour santa costume, when he went undercover to promote water bottles to children.
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Posted December 11, 2011 at 9:44 pm
via Smart Money
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Posted August 28, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Harry Markopolos was the whistleblower who spent 10 years documenting the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme and sharing his concerns with top regulators and journalists, but as his book title sadly recalls, No One Would Listen.
A new film on Markopolos’ effort is soon to be released – here’s the official trailer:
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Posted July 5, 2011 at 1:20 am
via Zurb.com
Little bets are what Peter Sims defined as the very factor which separates breakthrough innovators and outstanding achievers from the rest of us. In his most recent book, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, Sims tried to figure out how creative thinkers and doers discover great ideas and why most of us don’t work the same way.
He found that Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Edison, Jeff Bezos, Chris Rock, Bill Hewitt, Steve Jobs, story developers at Pixar, and the Army Chief of Strategic Plans all had one thing in common when it came to achieving outstanding results: they frequently took many small bets.
Instead of believing they have to start with a big idea, plan the project, and try to predict the final outcome, all of them took a series of little bets about what might be a good direction to go in. They learned from small failures and significant wins as they adapted, iterated, and fine tuned their ideas to achieve amazing results
In this talk Sims goes into the reasons why most of us do not take these small bets the same way innovators do. We develop a fixed mindset at a young age opposed to the growth mindset we need to have in order to take many of these small bets.
A fixed mindset is developed as the child is praised for their abilities and achievements rather than effort. If a child is praised for their abilities/achievements, practices a lot and doesn’t achieve the results they hoped for, they will most likely not want to practice, iterate and improve. However, if a child is praised for their effort from an early age, they grow up realizing they can take a lot of little bets, iterate and achieve great results.
Sims shares a number of real life stories of how taking small bets and iterating has played a vital role in the breakthrough innovations of Bill Hewitt, Jeff Bezos, storywriters at Pixar, Steve Jobs and many others.
Enjoy the talk!
[ Source: Zurb.com ]
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Posted June 23, 2011 at 3:54 am
by Dr. Mercola
Burzynski, the Movie (see the first 36 minutes here) is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food and Drug Administration in American history.
In the 1970’s, Dr. Burzynski made a remarkable discovery that threatened to change the face of cancer treatment forever. His non-toxic gene-targeted cancer medicine could have helped save millions of lives over the last two decades had his discovery not been criminally suppressed by the US government, as his therapy, called “antineoplastons,” have been shown to effectively help cure some of the most “incurable” forms of terminal cancer.
This documentary takes you through the treacherous 14-year journey Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to finally obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of antineoplastons.
His story is yet another testament that fact can be far stranger than fiction, as the film exposes the powerful, unscrupulous forces that work to maintain the status quo of the medical and pharmaceutical industry at any cost—including the lives of millions of people.
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Posted June 15, 2011 at 3:05 am
David Morgan who publishes the Morgan Report managed to get several of the smartest and most respected silver industry experts together to give their insight as to what is really going on with silver.
Of all the analysis of silver the past month this is some of the best you’ll come across:
Biggest Names Discuss Silver – Watch Part 1
Biggest Names Discuss Silver – Watch Part 2
Biggest Names Discuss Silver – Watch Part 3
Biggest Names Discuss Silver – Watch Part 4
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Posted June 14, 2011 at 11:39 am
“Bloomberg game Changers” profiles J.K. Rowling, the world’s richest author and creator of “Harry Potter.”
This program includes interviews with Michael Jacobs, formerly of Scholastic Corp., where he was responsible for the publishing, marketing, sales and distribution of the first five Harry Potter books and Jim Dale, two time Grammy Award winner, Rowling’s choice of narrator for the American audio book series.
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Posted June 10, 2011 at 1:53 am
Well, I think it’s fair to say we were waaaaaay late on seeing this one:
The (and I do mean “the“) Ultimate Dog Tease video.
A little relaxin humor to get out of work mode and get into some weekend fun.
Anyway, over 38 million people have seen this talking dog video.
We just weren’t one of them until today.
And, somehow we can’t get enough 
Enjoy!
- The WV Staff
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Posted June 2, 2011 at 6:32 pm
So you want to be a trader? You want to take home the massive bonuses of a Wall Street trader or a trader in The City? You want to be living and breathing markets?
Then you must watch this fascinating reality TV series — the hedge fund industry’s answer to The Apprentice.
Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars and a fortnight of intensive training to run their own hedge fund. Hedge fund manager Lex van Dam wants to see if they can beat the professionals.
In episode 1 the contestants are introduced to the trading floor and begin to build their portfolios.
In episode 2, each member of the team becomes a little more comfortable in trading, while one contestant leaves.
In episode 3, the final, a number of the contestants leave due to disliking the working conditions.
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