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		<title>TEDxCalgary &#8211; Threads of Ideas</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2011/05/24/tedxcalgary-threads-of-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 17:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t heard of TED.com, it&#8217;s about time you have. It&#8217;s like finding an info desk at a vast library where you can be introduced personally to some of the incredible ideas percolating in our global culture. TED talks [...]]]></description>
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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>Purple Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think they call it creative constraints. 48 hours was all we had to write, rehearse, perform, and edit a music video to deliver a message. Amy Thiessen came up with the seed of an idea to write a song [...]]]></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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		<title>Distinguishing between truth-tellers and pundits</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/03/31/distinguishing-between-truth-tellers-and-pundits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time, I introduced the roles of prophets, critics, and truth-tellers in enriching the ecology of leadership. I failed to mention however that there is an implied assumption that those truth-tellers and prophets are adaptive. This is, of course, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Black Belt&#8230; Then Let It Go</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/03/10/get-your-black-belt-then-let-it-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After eleven years of study and training, my wife finally received her first degree blackbelt in karate called a shodan in Renbukai karate. It was a proud achievement, but in the oriental tradition, the shodan merely indicates that she is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathing in Combat</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/02/20/breathing-in-combat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I held a very basic self-defense workshop for the City of Calgary Waterworks division. Now some of you might be wondering why a leadership coach / consultant would teach a self-defense course. First of all, it&#8217;s fun, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Leave Your Job (Tip 3)</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/02/19/how-to-leave-your-job-tip-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Creation]]></category>
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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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