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		<title>Adaptive do-It-yourself? Or next &#8216;Canada&#8217;s Worst Handyman&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There comes a time in every young man&#8217;s life when he must learn how to light a blow torch, to run stone through a wet saw, and mix cement with water. Or so I tell myself as I stumble my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Irrational Passionate Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if you were seized with a crazy desire to buy a video camera and tell stories, but you don&#8217;t have a clue how to make a film let alone hold a camera? That&#8217;s the question I was faced with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;I can&#8217;t focus&#8221; Syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common challenges raised by business owners and other people pursuing a venture is the &#8220;I can&#8217;t focus or do things consistently&#8221; challenge. This is another variation on the classic problem of not being able to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Leave Your Job (Tip 1)</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/01/28/how-to-leave-your-job-tip-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you were laid-off today. What would you do? If the prospect frightens you or the only response you have is to madly send out resumes for job postings, it might be time to do a checkup on your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Foolish Follies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Choosing not to think. Have you ever noticed that there are boundaries to what we choose to think about? Religion is certainly one area where we may choose not to apply the usual rigours of thought. Math is another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to develop consistency of action</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s surprising how difficult it is to develop a new habit, but learning how to do it well is a skill well worth developing. Literally anything important that we aim to accomplish in the future requires creating the habits today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a question powerful?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was stirred to consider this question upon reading The Art of Powerful Questions by Eric E. Vogt, Juanita Brown, and David Isaacs. Part of the work of a coach is asking powerful questions, but what is that? We can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughtscape Elements of Innovation</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2009/04/04/thoughtscape-elements-of-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bio-Social Nature]]></category>
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		<title>The Power of Pattern-Seeking</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2009/03/20/the-power-of-pattern-seeking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Capacity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are naturally pattern-seeking creatures. When the ancient Greeks looked up at the stars, they invented a whole series of rich stories and mythologies to go with the constellations. These stories and patterns may on one hand seem arbitrary to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Big Corporate Mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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