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You Can Become More Creative With This Unique Strategy Used By American Spies with Beth Comstock

The Science of Success

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The Black Swan and the Fear of Imagination

Our quest for certainty often ends up harming our imagination and hampering us from really achieving the possibilities that are out there. We want a risk-free world, a risk- free life. Risk is the will to act on imagination. I know it and it ends up saving us because if you can't risk something to try something for a better way, how are you ever going to get out of situations? You may recall back in 2000 or something, there was a book called The Black Swan about these once in a thousand-year catastrophes. Well, how many times now do we see this every day? There's every day is a 1000-year catastrophe.

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