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What is my definition of genius?

By tarynvoget On February 28, 2013 · Add Comment · In Personal Development, Thoughts on Genius, Videos


When you think of people who are geniuses, who pops into your head? And why are they geniuses? What makes them special? Have you ever stopped to consider the definition of genius?

Merriam Webster defines genius in the following way:

ge·nius (noun)
1: extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity
2: a person endowed with transcendent mental superiority; specifically : a person with a very high IQ

But does this definition encompasses the full spectrum of genius? Do Tiger Woods and Richard Branson have “extraordinary intellectual power”? And are all people with a high [...]

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Strategy of Genius: How to Get Anyone to Instantly Like You

By tarynvoget On July 12, 2012 · Add Comment · In Lifestyle Strategies, Sales & Marketing Strategies, Videos

Want to get anyone to like you instantly?  Here is a great strategy we modeled from a highly successful door-to-door salesman.  It works for getting plane upgrades, job offers and great seats at restaurants!  And it’s just a great way to make new friends.

This is a complement to the full strategy How to Get Anyone to Like You  I wrote about recently.

 

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Strategies of Genius: 3 Secrets of Success from the World’s Best

By tarynvoget On July 12, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Personal Development, Videos

In a moment of inspiration a few months ago, I created a video as part of a contest challenge.  The challenge was to share our three top secrets of success.  I got out my camera and featured 3 strategies of genius that I’ve discovered when working with the world’s best.  These are strategies I use consciously every day.

It turns out the contest holders liked the video too, and I won a free, all expenses paid trip to Brendon Burchard’s “High Performance Academy” conference!

It was a great conference, packed full of a lot of the great insights into [...]

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Top 50 Greatest Geniuses of All Time

By tarynvoget On May 7, 2012 · 6 Comments · In Miscelleneous

Traipsing around the internet in search of something in particular for a project, I stumbled across a most interesting list.  Over the years I’ve seen dozen’s of lists about the “Greatest Geniuses of All Time.”  These lists contain the usual suspects of Tesla, Einstein and Stephen Hawking.  It goes without saying that now every new list includes Steve Jobs.  But this particular list caught my eye.  This list was compiled by a nice looking older fellow who spends way too much time in the library.

Tony Buzan, who runs a charity called The Brain Trust, [...]

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How to Get Anyone to Like You

By tarynvoget On May 3, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Lifestyle Strategies, Sales & Marketing Strategies

Last week I was indulging a very guilty pleasure and trying out the delicious new Dorito Taco at Taco Bell. During my dining experience they begged me repeatedly to “Like” them on Facebook.  They asked me 5 different times, in 5 different ways.  The uptown girl in me had to marvel at WHO on this earth would admit to all of their FB friends that they “Like” Taco Bell?!!! As it turns out, over 8.5 million people admit that.  Amazing.

How to get 8.5million people to like you on Facebook certainly deserves its own post.  But for [...]

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How to Taste Wine Like a Pro

By tarynvoget On April 23, 2012 · Add Comment · In Food Wine & Dining Strategies, Lifestyle Strategies, Travel & Leisure

Back in 1992 Tim Gaiser did what many believe to be nearly impossible:  he passed the world’s most elite wine tasting exam and became the 19th American to earn the rare and prestigious title of Master Sommelier.  Earning this title is like climbing Mt. Everest.  Many attempt it.  Few succeed.  It’s just that hard. Today there are still fewer than 200 people in the world to ever pass the test.  For those who have passed, there is a good chance they have learned some of what they know from Tim.

For the past 20 years [...]

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How does a Kid Whisperer handle a child’s disrespectful behavior?

By tarynvoget On April 16, 2012 · Add Comment · In Parenting Strategies

Heather Criswell is a true Kid Whisperer. She has spent over 25 years working with over 30,000 children. She has figured out exactly what to do to get results with every child, every time.  And the children who have had privilege of working with her blossom and thrive in ways that would make your heart sing.

I have spent the past several months deconstructing Heather’s parenting strategies.  I was so inspired by her genius that I knew I had to share it with the world. So Heather and I decided to co-author a book, How [...]

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How to Generate Ideas that Get Big Results

By tarynvoget On April 16, 2012 · Add Comment · In Business Strategies, Creativity Strategies, Sales & Marketing Strategies

Tim Hallbom and I recently interviewed five of the top Chief Marketing Officers in the country.  These are CMOs who hit it out of the park time and time again.  They are CMOs who just have a knack for coming up with innovative marketing ideas that get huge results.  They are CMOs every major brand wants to hire.

We deconstructed exactly how these genius marketers achieve unheard of 60%+ campaign response rates, fill a $12M sales pipeline in just weeks, get CBS sports announcers to mention their brand name over 50 times in a week for free, and [...]

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How to Go From Being Busy, to Kicking A$$

By tarynvoget On August 1, 2011 · Add Comment · In Business Strategies, Personal Development, Productivity Strategies

“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.” -Bruce Lee

For well over 20 years I have been obsessed with the idea of how to get more done in a day. If only I could just be faster and more efficient, then I could be more productive and my life would be filled with enviable success. I bought every book and system on time management, getting things done, efficiency and prioritizing.  I’ve owned Franklin Covey planners, digital To-Do applications and created a hundred file [...]

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How to Learn New Things Quickly

By tarynvoget On June 14, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Business Strategies, Personal Development

Back in the 1970′s two remarkable behavioral scientists asked the question:  How is it that some people just learn things faster than others?  These two scientists, John Grinder and Richard Bandler, were teaching some classes and noticed that some students picked up the techniques they were teaching much more quickly than others. They decided to interview these highly effective learners to discover what they were doing in their minds that allowed them to apply new material quickly.

After interviewing several fast learners, they discovered that people who learn things quickly follow the same mental process. [...]

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How to Never Get Rejected Ever Again

By tarynvoget On April 8, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Business Strategies, Sales & Marketing Strategies

Have you ever received a rejection letter in the mail? Been told “no” when you asked for someone’s phone number at a bar? Or been told you aren’t welcome to join an exclusive club?

Have you ever hung up the phone on a telemarketer mid-sentence? Shut the door on a sales rep who came to your house?  Or walked by a homeless person asking for money and just ignored him?

Whether you are the one being rejected, or doing the rejecting, I think it’s safe to say that most people find rejection sucks.

There is [...]

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The Genius of Cartoonist Gary Larson

By tarynvoget On June 1, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Humorous

Sundays have never been the same since Gary Larson retired. He said that after 15 years he ran out of ideas for The Far Side and felt he was getting repetitive. I can’t speak for the other millions of readers out there, but he made me laugh until the end.  As a kid when my dad sat on the porch with his coffee, he would open the paper and immediately hand over the Comics section to us impatiently waiting kids and we’d tear through it looking for The Far Side funny first.  Everything else in the section [...]

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About the Everyday Genius Institute

By tarynvoget On May 19, 2010 · Add Comment · In Everyday Genius News, Videos

Tim Hallbom and I co-founded the Everyday Genius Institute to share how the world’s best do what they do.  At our company, we take people who are truly genius at what they do, crawl deep inside their minds and unpack, step-by-step, exactly how they achieve such exceptional results.  Check out this short video about our company.

Discover more on our site at www.everydaygeniusinstitute.com

 

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Announcing the Launch of the
Everyday Genius Institute!

By tarynvoget On May 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In Everyday Genius News

After a year of hard work, exciting breakthroughs and doing at times what seemed impossible, I am thrilled beyond words to announce the launch of my latest (and most proud) venture,  the Everyday Genius Institute.  It’s by far the most interesting, challenging and rewarding project I’ve launched to date.

The Everyday Genius Institute is an education company that teaches people the thinking strategies of the world’s most successful people. We take people who are genius at what they do, deconstruct their process and then teach others exactly how to get the same [...]

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