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Survive or thrive in 2009?

Written on January 13, 2009 – 9:18 am | by Steve Yastrow |

Today’s Survive or Thrive newsletter includes links to a free audio download and Learning Guide from my 2009 Readiness Teleseminar, conducted on January 9.  The seminar filled up, and we received many emails from people who couldn’t enroll, so I’m offering the entire one-hour teleseminar to anyone who would like it.

Please listen, learn and share with your colleagues.  This year will be tough, but you have many choices about what you do.  Make the most of those choices.

The teleseminar focuses a lot on personal responsibility.  For those of you who want to learn more about modern thinking on this topic, I highly recommend this lecture series from The Teaching Company, No Excuses: Existentialism and The Meaning of Life, by Professor Robert Solomon of the University of Texas – Austin.  12 hours very well spent.  (Although if you’re like me you’ll hit rewind a lot and re-listen to key parts. This has always been one of my favorite areas of philosophy.)

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