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True Facts

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Coca-cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80

Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50

Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58

Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90

Percentage of mammal species (including humans!!) that are: 3

Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7

Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3

Only food that does not spoil: honey

Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica

Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Men get hiccups more often than woman.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

Human Interest Story

A young man graduated from University of Arkansas with a degree in journalism. His first assignment for the newspaper who hired him was to write a human interest story. Being from Arkansas, he went back to the country to do his research. He went to an old farmer's house way back in the hills, introduced himself to the farmer and proceeded to explain to him why he was there. The young man asked, "Has anything ever happened around here that made you happy?"

The farmer thought for a minute and said, "Yep! One time one of my neighbor's sheep got lost. We formed a posse and found it. We all screwed it and took it back home."

"I can't print that!" the young man exclaimed. "Can you think of anything else that happened that made you or a lot of other people happy?"

After another moment, the farmer said, "Yeah, one time my neighbor's daughter, a good looking girl, got lost. We formed a big posse that time and found her. After we all screwed her, we took her back home."

Again, the young man said "I can't print that either. Has anything ever happened around here that made you sad?"

The old farmer dropped his head as if he were ashamed and after a few seconds looked up timidly at the young man and said, "I got lost once."

No harm in laughing again!!

lol!

There was Ugandan girl who got married to a Chinese man, after two
months in the new marriage she got pregnant and bore a baby girl who died soon after.

The Aunt at the funeral came crying. `I KNEW IT, `I KNEW IT, `I KNEW IT, `I KNEW

IT!!!!

So close relatives got curious, took the Aunt on the side and in a quest
to establish what she knew.

Then she said loudly, `I KNEW IT, THAT CHINESE PRODUCTS DON'T LAST!!!!!!

Kyoka Abasoga!!!

Genius - just brilliant - enjoy!! This is a good one

A randy Soga couple both aged 37 went to a sex therapist's office near Nakasero in Kampala.

The doctor asked, "What can I do for you?"

The man said, "Will you watch us have sex?"

The doctor looked puzzled, but agreed.

When the couple finished having the intercourse, the doctor said, "There is nothing wrong with the way you have intercourse'' and charged them shs. 20.000/-

This happened several weeks in a row. The couple would make an appointment, have intercourse with no problems, and pay the doctor then leave.

Finally, the doctor asked, "Just exactly, what are you trying to find out?"

The man said, "We're not trying to find out anything. She is married and we can't go to her house. I am married and we can't go to my house.

At the Guest House they charge shs.50,000/-. The hotel they charge shs. 100,000/-.

We do it here for shs 20,000/- and I claim it back from Medical Insurance.

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How To Think Like Steve Jobs

Carmine Gallo, 10.19.10, 4:30 PM ET

Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, recently wrote that America's core competency is its ability to attract, develop and unleash creative talent. He suggested that what America needs if it is to emerge from the Great Recession even stronger than before is more Jobs--Steve Jobs. That sounds good on paper, but how does Steve Jobs do it? How did Apple's chief executive pioneer the personal computer, revive the Apple brand in 1997 when it was close to bankruptcy and grow Apple into the most valuable tech company in the world? That's the question I took on in writing my new book, The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.

In dozens of interviews with former Apple employees, analysts and experts, I learned that Steve Jobs does "think different" from the vast majority of business leaders. But he does so using techniques that are available to anyone who wants to improve their odds of achieving breakthrough success. They are techniques that psychologists have told me play an important role in developing new products, companies and methods.

The company name Apple fell from a tree, dropping right into Jobs' vision of what a computer should be--simple and approachable. When he and his boyhood pal Steve Wozniak decided to start their own company, with $1,000, they needed just a name to make the partnership complete. As Woz tells the story, "I remember I was driving Steve back from the airport along Highway 85. Steve was coming back from a visit to Oregon to a place he called an 'apple orchard.' Steve suggested a name--Apple Computer. ... We both tried to come up with technical-sounding names that were better, but we couldn't think of any good ones. Apple was so much better. So Apple it was. Apple it had to be."

The naming of Apple was just the beginning. Many of Jobs' most intriguing ideas would arise from the most unlikely locations and experiences--studying calligraphy in college, or visiting an ashram in India or the kitchen appliance department at Macy's. Jobs exposes himself to a broad set of human experiences; experiences that literally kick-start the creative process.

Psychologists have worked tirelessly trying to figure out what makes innovators different. In one of the most thorough examinations of the subject, Harvard researchers interviewed 3,000 executives over six years, and they found that the No. 1 skill that separated innovators from noncreative professionals was "associating"--having an ability to successfully connect seemingly unrelated questions, problems or ideas from different fields. The three-year Harvard research project confirmed what Jobs had told a reporter 15 years earlier: "Creativity is just connecting things."

Jobs is a classic iconoclast, one who aggressively seeks out, attacks and overthrows conventional ideas. And iconoclasts, especially successful ones, have an "affinity for new experiences," according to the Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns.

Jobs sees the same things as other leaders, but he perceives them differently. Perception separates the innovator from the imitator. For example, dozens of people saw the graphical user interface set-up at the Xerox PARC facility in Palo Alto, but it was Jobs who, in 1979, perceived it differently and went on to adopt and adapt the technology for what ultimately became the first Macintosh computer, in 1984.

The key to thinking differently is perceiving things differently. To perceive things differently, you must be exposed to divergent ideas, places and people. This forces your brain to make connections it otherwise might miss. Steve Jobs has done this his entire life. He dropped out of college so he could "drop in" to classes that really interested him, such as calligraphy, whose lessons would come back to him years later when he designed the Mac, the first personal computer with beautiful fonts. Jobs wanted the Apple II to be the first personal computer people used in their homes, so he sought inspiration for it in the kitchen appliance aisle at Macy's. And when he hired musicians, artists, poets and historians on the original Macintosh team, he was again exposing himself to new experiences and novel ways of looking at problems.

Some of his most creative insights have resulted directly from novel experiences either in physical places or among people with whom he chose to associate. For example, when he started the Apple Stores, he purposely avoided hiring someone from the computer industry. Instead he tapped a former Target executive, Ron Johnson. Jobs and Johnson sought ideas from outside the computer industry. They asked themselves, "Who offers the best customer service experience?" The answer: Four Seasons hotels. Walk into an Apple Store. You won't find a cashier, but you will find a "concierge." There's a reason for that.

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Does Steve Jobs perceive things differently? Absolutely. Is that a skill unique to him? No. You can learn to be more creative as long as you keep in mind that your brain will fight you every step of the way. By pursuing new experiences and thinking differently about common problems, you are asking your brain to expend energy when its natural role is to conserve as much energy as possible. It's not easy, but by forcing yourself out of your comfort zone, physically and mentally, you will kick-start an improvement of the odds of generating remarkable new ideas that have the potential of transforming your business and your life.

Carmine Gallo is a communications coach and the author of four books, including The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success (McGraw-Hill, October, 2010). Visit him online at www.carminegallo.com.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/19/steve-jobs-innovation-leadership-managing-creativity_print.html