Posted 11:46 PM by Blah blah

Here we gooooo. The Oprahization of this blog continues:

Finding the career for you:
"My father told me to go 'where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.' " -Diane Sawyer

From Eight Keys to Greatness:

1. Charisma: the gift of divine grace
2. Competitiveness: the need to win at all costs
3. Confidence and self-esteem: believe and the world will follow you
4. Drive: great people live life in the fast lane
5. Intuition: seeing the forest through the trees
6. Rebellion: abnormal success demands abnormal behavior
7. Risk-taking: there are no great wins in life without great risks
8. Tenacity: if you never quit, you can never lose

Paradoxes of Success

- Catherine the Great, Napoleon, and Hitler became rulers of world powers on the basis of nationalism yet were of a different nationality than those they ruled.
- A man of the cloth concocted the theory of evolution---the most pernicious argument against the Church's most fundamental dogmas. (Darwin studied to be a minister!)
- A medical doctor who denied her own child became the Messiah of Education
- A man who couldn't hear invented the phonograph and first sound movie camera
- A Russian immigrant with no philosophical background wrote the greatest epic philosophical novel---Atlas Shrugged
- A peasant farmer rose to the status of god and implemented China's Cultural Revolution
- A man kicked out of high school derived the theory of relativity, became an avid pacifist, and then advised the U.S. president to develop the atom bomb
- A man who hated art and would not hire an artist or allow the word "art" to be used at work, created Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, and Goofy
- A woman became the Mother of Modern Dance without ever taking a dance lesson
- A man who feared the common housefly became a daredevil test pilot
- The woman known as the Duchess of Death never met a criminal
- Nikola Tesla, a pathological recluse, was a mesmerizing speaker who could captivate hundreds for hours
- The man who claimed sex was the motive behind all behavior did not have sex after age forty
- An eighth grade dropout solved the technological mysteries of the catalytic engine
- An average-sized female outdrove 80 percent of the world's professional male golfers
- A man who claimed he couldn't write became one of the most successful authors in the 1980s