try to appreciate...

[Unbalanced]

Where's an eighteen wheeler when you need one.

[murilo]

Hi, boys!
This is from IdeaConnection.
This will help, in last option, to some guys to find 'what to say' texts!
Funny is that this cruel list is much more common than should be!
Woooosssshhh...
Best!
M.

50 Cage Makers
April 27, 2011. By Peter Lloyd RSS Feed diggDel.icio.us Newsvine Facebook
You are an animal. You share a whole lot of your DNA with other primates. Even after chimps, bonobos, humans, and gorillas became distinct species, biologists say that 99% of your DNA lines up chromosome-by-chromosome. Of course, you are different. No other living species begins to approach your level of creativity. But you’re still an animal.

And if you examine your animal nature, you will discover some amazing things about yourself, which can help you improve the most powerful ability you as the human animal possess—creativity. You are alive today because you are a creative animal. So why haven’t you surpassed the creative achievements you’ve set as your goals? Why do Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci still out-shine you creatively?

dufour at microphoneCages. Your wild, creative nature has been caged not unlike a zoo animal. I’ve identified four Cages of Context and have described them in detail in other Workouts. But in a flash of creative brilliance, my friend Dave Dufour has listed what he calls “Fifty Phrases that Kill Creativity.�

As a service to you, I present them here, slightly adapted, as 50 Cage Makers—statements and questions you hear all the time in response to new ideas. Notice how many you’ve already heard and think about how often you’ve heard them:

1. We tried that before.
2. Our place is different.
3. It’ll cost too much.
4. That’s not my job.
5. They’re too busy to do that.
6. We don’t have the time.
7. Not enough help.
8. It’s too radical a change.
9. The staff will never buy it.
10. It’s against company policy.
11. The union will scream.
12. Runs up our overhead.
13. We don’t have the authority.
14. Let’s get back to reality.
15. That’s not our problem.
16. I don’t like the idea.
17. You’re right, but...
18. You’re two years ahead of your time.
19. We’re not ready for that.
20. It’s not in the budget.
21. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
22. Good thought, but not very practical.
23. Let’s give it some more thought.
24. We’ll be the laughingstock of the industry.
25. Not that again.
26. Where’d you dig that one up?
27. We’re doing all right without it.
28. That’s never been tried before.
29. Let’s put that one on the back burner for now.
30. Okay, let’s form a committee.
31. I don’t see the connection.
32. It won’t work in our place.
33. The executive committee will never go for it.
34. Let’s all sleep on it.
35. That can’t be done.
36. It’s too much trouble to change.
37. It won’t pay for itself.
38. That’s impossible.
39. I know a person who tried it.
40. We’ve always done it this way.
41. Top management won’t buy it.
42. We’d lose money in the long run.
43. Don’t rock the boat.
44. That’s what we can expect from the staff.
45. Has anyone else ever tried it?
46. Let’s look into it later.
47. Quit dreaming.
48. What are you smoking?
49. That’s too ivory tower.
50. Too much work.


As shallow and innocuous as these Cage Makers are, they still discourage creative thinking, especially when they come from people in charge. But now you can use this list to defend your ideas. Read them again and prepare alternative comebacks to those you hear most often. That way, the next time some knuckled-headed, idea killer attacks one of your ideas, you’ll be prepared.

Peter Lloyd is co-creator with Stephen R. Grossman of Animal Crackers, the breakthrough problem-solving tool designed to crack your toughest problems.

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[DrWhat]

Hi.

One phrase that now annoys me is "At the end of the day..."

I hear it so many times now that it is driving me nuts!

And at the end of the day it is I who have to deal with this issue of mine!

[Timothy]

Aggravating phrase? How 'bout "It is what it is."

vs WHAT?

It isn't what it isn't?

It is what it isn't?

It isn't what it is?

Deserves a dope slap.

[murilo]

I would add some other cruel:

51- Guy... we have already decided for another stuff. Sorry.
52- ....................................... ( silence and ignoring )
53- Oh, no... Again???
54- Tell me, where is obligation to change a stuff that works well?
55- Better if you fix your mind in your job.
56- [thinking - not talking] This guy wants to screw my position!!!
57- What do you want to win with this?

Take care!
M.
(most of people just can't live with an idea generator and doesn't matter what kind of ideas they are... and so this keeps as a braked world.)

Quote of the Day

"What, sir? You would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."
- Napoleon Bonaparte to Robert Fulton, upon hearing of the latter's plans for a steam-powered engine. 8)))

[murilo]

Do you like reading books?
Yes?
Do you have and/or like women?
Yes?
All you have to do to wait for the translation of this huge book to your language!
'How to Understand Women'!!!
True bestseller! (even if in some other countries they may be MUCH MORE complicated. 8)
Enjoy!
M
PS: I'm sorry!

[murilo]

What???

sphexishness ???

Who, me???

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/com ... 7307.story

Impossible to enjoy... 8(
Take care!

[Richard]

...knowing now that "sphexishness" was not about white anglo saxon protestants....I am left with one question??


..what if??? just possibly...IIIIfffffff..something got into that hole?

richard

[murilo]

8)

[murilo]

...knowing now that "sphexishness" was not about white anglo saxon protestants....I am left with one question??


..what if??? just possibly...IIIIfffffff..something got into that hole?

richard

Rich,
is this maybe another example for anglo saxon protestants???

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... S_20110526

I'm confused, sorry...
M

[Richard]

Muirlo...dear murilo...sadly..yes my friend. 8-(

from your link

Manukura's birth has been hailed as a tohu, or sign of new beginnings, by Maori tribal elders. The chick's name roughly translates to "chiefly status".

richard hopes

..that the maori (brown chicks) fare better than the Mayan..

richard..8-))

[murilo]

Rachird,
mayan kiwis? 8|
I was thinking more about classic nickname for some NZders. 8)
BTW, my name is not Muirlo, ok?
Best!
Muirlo, I mean Muliro, sorry... M.

[Richard]

Well...now that we've got that cleared up "M" where do we go from here...?

Rachird...8-)

Bessler wheel....I add that in case Scott thinks were wasting bytes..

[murilo]

Guys and NOT gals...
Maybe this will be a goal and a shot against the 'fear prostate industry':

http://www.pca3.org/public/

( at least for me, a new stuff! )
Take care!
M
PS: sorry, gals!

[murilo]

At few hours in other thread we talked about dilettantes, so take a look:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... B_20110608

(we are dealing to BUILD a real skilled mind... not gut-storming, LUCK and lottery.)
Best!
M