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HOW TO DO LESS & ACHIEVE MORE - THE SCIENCE OF RESOURCEFULNESS! Scott Sonenshein | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire

April 11, 2017

If you’ve ever wanted to do more with less, and build a better life, then do we have the Stretch show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Scott SunandShine, pHD, the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice University, award-winning researcher, teacher and consultant at fortune 500 companies, and the author of a fascinating new read with a philosophy I work on each and every day, Stretch.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about unlocking the power of less, and achieving more than you ever imagined.

Stretch Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

  1. What did he learn from working at tech start-up Vividence?
  2. What happened to his colleague Jeremy Glick on Sept. 11, 2001?
  3. What happened to the Dot Com industry in 2001 and how did that steer Scott’s life?
  4. What can we learn from Dick of D.G. Yunegling & Son?
  5. What can we learn from the demise of Strohs?
  6. What is chasing and who are chasers?
  7. What’s the importance of a better use of our resources?
  8. Who in the world is Van Man and what can we learn from him?
  9. What are the consequences of a chasing mindset?
  10. How does social media influence chasing?
  11. What were the results of the social media studies on measuring well-being and satisfaction?
  12. What does Bobo the Bear and a toy lion have to do with anything?
  13. When do younger kids beat older kids at problem solving?
  14. What can we learn from Randi Sonenshein about Borders and the Sony Reader?
  15. What really happened to Borders bookstore and what can we learn from it?
  16. What do buzz saws and dove chocolate have to do with our behavior?
  17. What does it mean to embrace a stretch mindset?
  18. What’s the power of frugality?
  19. What can we learn from film-maker Robert Rodriguez and bleeding for your money?
  20. What’s the power of negative and positive prophecies?
  21. What’s the danger of the dunce cap?
  22. Why are deviations often a good thing?
  23. What’s the importance of diversity of ideas?
  24. What’s the importance or positive result of moving?
  25. What’s the importance of taking a break and paying less attention?
  26. What does it mean, and why’s it important to plan backwards?
  27. What’s it mean to be newlyweds for 14 years in a row?
  28. How do we cultivate an attitude of stretch in our children?
  29. What’s one Stretch homework assignment we can do to improve our lives today?
  30. To find out more go to ScottSonenshein.com

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