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		<title>Personal Development and the SAID Principle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duff McDuffee</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands (or SAID) is a  principle from exercise physiology. SAID basically says you get better at  what you do&#8212;whether you do something intentionally or unintentionally,  formally or informally. It also means you get better at the specific thing you do, not something else. There may be positive carryover, [...]<br/>
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		<title>Review of Tony Robbins’ “Breakthrough”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duff McDuffee</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tony Robbins&#8217; reality TV show &#8220;Breakthrough&#8221; just debued last night in the United States (USA viewers can watch episode 1 in the player below&#8212;unfortunately I don&#8217;t think it will play outside of the US).

Readers of Beyond Growth already know some of my opinions about Robbins and his approach to personal development, something I call &#8220;aggressive [...]<br/>
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		<title>Critical review of Linchpin by Seth Godin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Normand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conscious Marketing]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[History is gifted with great thinkers who have produced prolific works of thought and depth.  When Kant published a book, a flurry of talk and excitement rushed across Europe.  Every thinker in the world wanted to understand, discuss, and critique Kant&#8217;s ideas and thought processes.  The ideas were tested, holes were found, [...]<br/>
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		<title>Tony Robbins and the Cult of Aggressive Positivity, Part 2: How Positive Thinking Can Make You Depressed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duff McDuffee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Thinking]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is part 2 in a series. Best read part 1 first if you haven&#8217;t already.
The other day I read an article in Newsweek entitled The Creativity Crisis (via my Twitter-friend @BeyondMeds). The article is about how American creativity is declining and what we can do about it. While there are many interesting tidbits in [...]<br/>
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		<title>The New Minimalism or the New Consumerism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duff McDuffee</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just begun tracking a curious emerging trend in personal development, what I&#8217;m calling The New Minimalism or Neo-minimalism (which may or may not have anything to do with Neo-minimalism as a movement in art). Leo Babauta, A-list blogger of Zen Habits fame, blogs almost exclusively on minimalism nowadays&#8212;both on Zen Habits and a blog [...]<br/>
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		<title>Tony Robbins and the Cult of Aggressive Positivity, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duff McDuffee</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is part one of a multi-part series. Please subscribe to get free updates if you haven&#8217;t already.
Personal development saved my life, but not without some side effects. In college, I had been in a troubled relationship for a couple years and when it finally ended, I was overwhelmed with depression. I found that by [...]<br/>
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		<title>The Paint-By-Numbers Guide to Your Creative Self-Actualization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duff McDuffee</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday, an email arrived in my inbox from a popular &#8220;lifestyle design&#8221; website. This sales letter encouraged me to become a rebellious Jedi Knight and design my life on my terms by joining a mentoring and training program along with like-minded revolutionaries. The pitch contained the following hilarious typo (emphasis mine):
The [product name removed] is [...]<br/>
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		<title>Be Yourself, But Not Because I Told You To: The Paradoxes of Authenticity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duff McDuffee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The message in personal development, self-help, and the wider Western culture is clear&#8212;&#8221;be yourself.&#8221; We are told that being a conformist is bad. The marketplace demands creativity and innovation from passionate employees, consumers are bored of last year&#8217;s model, and many workers are tired of working meaningless jobs. But here&#8217;s the thing: if you obey [...]<br/>
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		<title>Kruse: Towards Ethical Lifestyle Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 20:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Schiller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[lifestyle design]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fabian Kruse responded to our ongoing discussion about lifestyle design on his blog the Friendly Anarchist:
Should lifestyle designers be better people? When reading the recent  discussion on the topic over at Beyond  Growth,  one could reach the conclusion that this indeed should be the case.  And, honestly, why not? Why limit [...]<br/>
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		<title>Demystifying Personal Development: The Secret of Success in 2 Words (Video)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BeyondGrowth/~3/pnB6YJSuSqc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 08:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duff McDuffee</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Greetings growthy people! I had the idea today to do little videos on the subject of &#8220;demystifying personal development&#8221;&#8212;&#8217;cause vlogging is the new Tweeting, right?
Anyway, here is the first installment:

I don&#8217;t know about you, but I think I might just be the new wine marketing guy, except like for personal development instead of wine&#8230;because I [...]<br/>
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