The best way to predict the future is to invent it Alan C. Kay
Motivational Support
Principle
Offer ways to help the client to remember why he invested his resources in the project.
Material
| Title
| Lesson learned
| Why it matters
| When to use it
| Who would benefit it most
| Specific part
| Publisher
| Year
| Where to find it
|
| Stress, Portrait of a Killer
| Impact of feeling "low ranking"
| Entrepreneurship can be stressful but... less than other positions
| when the client wonder if the project worth the trouble
| client aiming for higher quality of life
| first half plus last 7 minutes
| PBS Special
| 2008
| official PBS page
|
| Life compass
| Explicit your motivation
| Be able to remember daily on what you are aiming for and what you want to avoid
| when the client feels lost
| client now knowing why he wants to invest in his project
| all
| CoEvolution
| 2008
| E:\Work\pensine\a integrer\boussole_personelle.jpg
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Feedback on shared material
To add
- references added in Communication/Marketing/Xye
- Creative entrepreneurs can survive the crisis : "Creative entrepreneurs can weather the current global economic crisis better than traditional businesses" says Jean-Claude Larréché, INSEAD professor of marketing.
- my own motivational playlist
- Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, CMU, 2007
- "Brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams." (from 1:11:40 to the end as a condensed version)
- Failure: The Secret to Success by Honda
- demotivational posters
- Studying - Today a reader, tomorrow a leader; for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Necessity - The mother of all inventions
- Hang On - Because things don't always go as planned.
- Direction - Never look where you are going, always look where you want to go.
- Your Own Road, ya got make it yourself
- Engineering the most effective solutions often include creativity
- quotes
- "It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.", Anatole France
- "Il faut choisir : se reposer ou être libre", Thucydide (audio version at 51:34).
- "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker Famous Art Quotes from Quotegasm "Spread the wisdom"
- "An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cells it occupied.", Arnold H. Glasgow
- Scientists, Monks and Bankers - It's All About Love by Peter A. Gloor, Swarm Creativity Blog January 2010
- Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator by Alfie Kohn, Boston Globe 1987
- inspiration, tropical toxic 2008
- Trusting You Have the Knowledge to Create Something New by Yvonne Chan, Big Ideas Fest 2009
To explore
- TED
- ISBN : 978-1-59184-166-1 The Dip by Seth Godin (recommended by Nicolas)
- Invention on Wikiquote, a term which refers to the activity of creating new forms, compositions of matter, devices, or processes, or to the products of this activity.
- What's Dangerous Is Not To Evolve, Jeff Bezos on Innovation
- Creativity Loves Constraint by Marissa Mayer, Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series, 2006
- There, I Fixed It Epic Kludge Photos
- Moodscope Manage your mood with a little help from your friends
- "Comfort comes first as a guest, Then becomes your host, And eventually your master. It is best to keep comfort as a guest." anonymous
