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Positive Psychology

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For years, psychology has focused on abnormalities and disease and the negative.  Lately there has been much more research into ‘happiness’.  The most popular freshman class at Harvard is ‘Positive Psychology’ and the study of happiness is a cultural trend that can offer key insights into new modes of training, development and management.  People always thought happiness was happenstance – but in fact there are significant agreed upon maxims that are standard for most happiness.

True Development

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If you are producing content – you should be producing it in a variety of mediums.  You should leverage your research, development and content into other deals by making partnerships.  Deals like this one with niche content providers like small magazines and websites will be the norm.  It started with book to film but it goes much, much further.

Dating On The Go

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Location, location, location.

One of the big trends for 2010 is real time, location based applications.  So whatever you can do from a computer, you can now do from wherever you are.

That means finding a date NOW at the bar around the corner, finding items on sale NOW on the block your walking or finding out when a fresh hot pizza has just come out of the oven at the pizza place next door as you are getting hungry.

Keep an eye on this trend because it will create a series of micro industires.

A Designed Life

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The most important skills for navigating the 21st century?  Storytelling and Design.

You must design experiences, not things.  You must tell stories, not recite stats. 

Soon everything will be video. 

The printed word will continue to infinitely have its place but soon we will organize everything by video and picture.