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* Invictus–Explicit Myth–The Movie and the Men

Monday, January 11, 2010

  Invictus, composed in the 19th-century by William Ernest Henley, is now best known as the poem that inspired Nelson Mandela throughout his more than 26-year stay in prison. In the 2009 popular movie that shares the poem’s name, Mandela, President of an emerging South Africa,  is seen in flashback reading the poem as it [...]

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* Does Personal Gain Inspire?

Friday, February 13, 2009

Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke, weighs in on the subject of motivation and inspiration in an editorial piece for the New York Times on November 20. He asks the timely question, “’What’s the Value of a Big Bonus?’” [1] Ariely presents research that suggests that Campbell’s postulate about inspiration (see posting of [...]

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