The Power of Words (video)

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Purplecontent, Feb 23, 2010, 5 million views: This short film illustrates the power of words to radically change your message and your effect upon the world.

It's an ad, but the message is the same.

"The Tiger Mother" Responds to Readers - WSJ Video

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References:
The Tiger Mother Responds to Readers. WSJ.
'Tiger Mothers' leave lifelong scars. CNN.

Doctor's Dog Will See You Now - Therapists Use 'Canine Assistants' to Comfort and Cheer Patients

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From the WSJ:

Walk into psychiatrist Drew Ramsey's office in Manhattan and you'll likely be greeted by Gus, a four-year-old shih tzu.

Some patients pat Gus while they talk to Dr. Ramsey. A few talk to Gus instead. And if they get emotional, Gus provides physical comfort that therapists can't offer. "We can't hug patients, but patients can hug Gus," says Dr. Ramsey, who began bringing his dog to his office two years ago.

References:
The Doctor's Dog Will See You Now. WSJ.

How a Doctor Almost Killed Her Dog - ibuprofen, the key ingredient in Motrin, poisons dogs. NYTimes.

Mark Zuckerberg on Psychology (video)

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Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2010 talking about "The Social Network" and psychology.

Why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them

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From TED Talks: After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.

I am not sure if this applies to everyday life and on a larger scale but it is an interesting observation nonetheless.

Social Media Complicates Work-Life Relationships

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95% of at-work Internet users headed to social sites during the work day for either personal or professional reasons.

61% did so at least once daily.

15% said they were on the networks “constantly throughout the day.”

Social media can create complications when it comes to friending colleagues and supervisors, which blurs boundaries.

References:

Social Media Complicates Work-Life Balance - eMarketer.
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Google co-founder: "I'm an optimist. People think I'm naive but I wouldn't have started a search engine in 1998 if I wasn't"

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Sergey Brin:

"Well, once again, look: I'm an optimist. I want to find a way to really work within the Chinese system and provide more and better information.

So, I think a lot of people think I'm naive, and that may well be true, but I wouldn't have started a search engine in 1998 if I wasn't naive in that way."

References:
TED Blog: Sergey Brin on Google's China decision.

Image source: James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc., Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has a book: Delivering Happiness

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From Amazon:

"Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales every year.

In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO.

In his first book, Tony shares the different business lessons he learned in life, from a lemonade stand and pizza business through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Ultimately, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, passion, and purpose both in business and in life."

I follow Tony on Twitter, many of his tweets are funny and insightful at the same time.