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It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

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Daniel H. Pink
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.
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One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
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You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
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In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.
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The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.
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I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.
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Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.
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Were born to be players, not pawns.
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Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.
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If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.
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Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.
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I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.
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Today it’s economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.
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Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.
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Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.
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