Suppose you’re in a strange town and don’t know how to get where you’re going.  If the guy at the gas station gives you bad directions, will you get where you want to be?

Maybe you will, but only if one of these two things happen:  1-You ask someone else, and they give you good directions, or 2-Through good fortune you just happen to stumble upon your destination.

Bad information equals bad results. 

Until we get good information, or figure out the real deal on our own, we tend to act on the bad information. 

The worst part?  It can take a while to figure out we’ve been chasing the wrong rabbit.

There’s an article out this week from US News & World Report that purports to give us the “3 Ways to Tell if Someone is Lying“.  It touches on a couple of valuable points, but ultimately just supports the common belief (myth) that reading body language is the key to spotting deception. 

You want the truth?  It’s actually hidden—sometimes not too deeply—in the words people speak.

If you haven’t already, take a look at the article (it’s brief) then come back here and I’ll give you (more…)

Expectations are a thing of duality:

1-Your expectations of what you’re capable of will actually determine what you’re capable of. 

So beware:  Your expectations of yourself will always be accurate—even when you have them too low.

2-But your expectations of what others are, or will be, won’t be so accurate.  In fact, we all routinely misjudge others when we have little to go on. 

And the real kicker?  The less we have to measure them by, the more inaccurate our assessment will be.  That’s because of a little thing called distraction that I wrote about a few weeks back—even before the emergence of Susan Boyle last week on Britain’s Got Talent.

Even if you’ve seen the video, you might want to watch it again now, because I’m going to call (more…)