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		<title>Treat it as a performance</title>
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Delivering a presentation that is smooth, insightful and ends right on time can be a big ask. Lots of intelligent people mess it up. One of the speakers who really seems to get it right is Malcolm Gladwell. If you have ever watched him speak (like here on TED), you may notice how he speaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking for what you really want</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend John asked me today why I do what I do. It&#8217;s a pretty big question. After responding with, &#8220;just because&#8221; he probed further and gave me the opportunity to share with him (inflict upon him?) some of my rationalizations, justifications and excuses. It was delightfully self-indulgent  
But it didn&#8217;t give him the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielsmith.info/2010/01/asking-for-what-you-really-want/</link>
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		<title>Keep practising &#8211; especially as you get older!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months back I did a martial arts session with my original instructor. It had been a long time and I was far from my best, so I paired up with a relatively junior student for some padwork.
He was young and strong and had been training hard for a few months.
Little did he know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielsmith.info/2010/01/keep-practising-especially-as-you-get-older/</link>
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		<title>Optimization of everyday life: Making better decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time we don&#8217;t make rational decisions. Much of the time we can&#8217;t &#8211; there&#8217;s too little information and too much uncertainty. But if we can start to use some numbers, we can make the comparisons simpler, less subjective, and give us more of what we want, more often.
That&#8217;s the point of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielsmith.info/2009/12/optimization-of-everyday-life-making-better-decisions/</link>
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		<title>Welcome Alexander Daniel Smith 厉丹轩</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wendy and I welcomed our son, Alexander Daniel Schwen Lee Smith, 厉丹轩, into the world last Thursday, 3 December, 2009 at 10:28pm&#8230; All are well  
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		<title>Alec Baldwin is a failure as an actor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alec Baldwin is a well-known actor. Many would consider him successful. He has starred in many moves and appears in popular television shows. Yet he sees himself a failure. Just recently, he said, &#8220;I consider my entire movie career a complete failure.&#8221;
I couldn&#8217;t help but ask myself, &#8220;How?&#8221;
Rather than trying to reassure him that he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielsmith.info/2009/12/alec-baldwin-is-a-failure-as-an-actor/</link>
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		<title>Follow your passion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just reading how some people make excuses for not following their passion&#8230; and thought that I might respond in support of following your passion.
When I was small, I wanted a Ferrari Testarossa. You see, I have red hair (well at least it was when I was younger!); when I found out that &#8220;Testarossa&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielsmith.info/2009/11/follow-your-passion/</link>
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		<title>Choose your friends very carefully</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends have a huge impact on us. Really huge.
Our friends have an impact on whether we smoke, how much money we earn, our lifestyle&#8230; even our happiness itself. For example, an obese friend increases your risk of obesity by 171% &#8211; that&#8217;s far more powerful than even genetics!
Thank the next happy friend that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielsmith.info/2009/11/choose-your-friends-very-carefully/</link>
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		<title>Back in Brisbane for a while</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After living in Shanghai for the past 30 months, I&#8217;m back in Brisbane. It&#8217;s not forever. But it will be for a while. Walking down the streets that I grew up on earlier today reminded me of how much things have changed.
Well, at least I have changed.
I looked at the first cafe I remember visiting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielsmith.info/2009/11/back-in-brisbane-for-a-while/</link>
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		<title>The Power of Ambiguity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever looked at a traffic accident and asked yourself, &#8220;How did that happen?&#8221;
The other night, I was playing pool and sunk a ball that I didn&#8217;t expect to sink &#8211; in fact, it was so surprising that I asked myself, &#8220;How did I do that?!&#8221; (Actually, I think it was a little more [...]]]></description>
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