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Mar
23
“POP”sicle FRANK EPPERSON
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Feb
26
ANNA STRONG …IT ALL COMES OUT IN THE WASH Setauket, New York Chapter DAR Plate
Intelligence networks today have many technologically advanced methods of passing information from the enemy back to their home bases. Back during the Revolutionary War, a woman named Anna Strong just had her ingenuity and her laundry. Click here to read more.. »
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Aug
31
TIM RUSSERT ELECTION NIGHT 2000 – BACK TO BASICS
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Mar
21
NEED A CREATIVE SOLUTION? SLEEP ON IT!Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali, two creative geniuses in history, both used “power napping” to come up with some of their creative ideas. They would work late into the night and then would set up for a “power nap”. Edison would sit in a chair and prop his hand filled with ball bearings under his chin. He would relax and try to reach a state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. Once he fell asleep, his hand would drop and the ball bearings would drop into a bowl he had on the floor and wake him. Edison would immediately write down any thoughts he had at that moment. Dali would use a key in his hand to accomplish his waking up right before stage two sleep.
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Mar
19
THE AUTHOR’S “NEW CLOTHES”A “creative idea” is by the very essence of it’s name something that is DIFFERENT. It is the expression of someone’s idea of accomplishing something in a way that is out of the norm of conventional thought. By presenting examples of how others accomplish tasks, the intention is not to have you go out and replicate them. Perhaps their innovative way of a means to an end, will trigger a way for you to accomplish your goal in a manner that you would otherwise not have even considered. James Surowiecki in his 2010 New Yorker article “Later” reveals that famous historical author Victor Hugo had a habit of procrastinating. His solution, when he needed to write, was to have his valet hide his clothes so he couldn’t go anywhere. He would then write while naked – a cold, but evidently effective, method for accomplishing his task.
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Mar
17
ACCOMPLISHING SIMPLE TASKS….Franklin Roosevelt used the trick of imagining a person’s name written across his or her forehead as a method to remember someone’s name. Remembering names is as important a skill in the business sector as in social situations. With just a little practice, the talent of being able to recall names becomes much easier. Just try these guidelines posted on CNN written by a Careerbuilder.com reporter. 2. If the person didn’t introduce themselves but is wearing a nametag, then verify the name (they are not always written correctly on the tag). 3. Imagine writing the name as you are saying it to yourself. 4. Connect the person’s name with a familiar person or image. Picture someone named “Arnold” as the Terminator or a bodybuilder. 5. Use the name three or four times in conversation with the person when you first meet. Try ending the conversation with, “It was a pleasure meeting you, Arnold.” 6. Record the name in a “contacts file”.
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Mar
6
BE CREATIVE-THINK DIFFERENTLYInsanity is defined by Einstein as “Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Andrew Carnegie, a steel magistrate, listened as his sister-in-law proclaimed how worried she was about her two boys at Yale. Numerous attempts to reach them had failed. They ignored their mother’s frantic letters. One day Carnegie bet someone $100 that he could get them to answer his letter “without even asking for it”. He made it beneficial to the boys for them to answer. He wrote the boys a nice, chatty letter and then in a postscript very casually mentioned that he was enclosing each one of them a five dollar bill. He didn’t enclose the money. Sure enough each boy send back nice replies and then happened to mention the omission.
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