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		<title>Prime Business Alert!: Don&#8217;t Go &#8220;Caveman&#8221; in a Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research has shown that when we experience a crisis, we regress back to our primitive ancestors; we go caveman! We fall back on most deeply ingrained instincts and habits that have served us well for eons by ensuring our survival, namely, by triggering the “fight-or-flight” response. This primal reaction produces intense physiological changes that increase our strength, heighten our senses, and bolster our endurance, all in the name of enabling us to fight more ferociously or run faster and longer. When confronted by a saber-toothed tiger or a rival tribesman, our ancestors had two basic options and we instinctively chose the one that we believed would maximize our chances of survival.

Unfortunately, this ancient reaction that worked hundreds of thousands of years ago in the face of a crisis, won’t work with the crises that we experience in the business world in the 21st century. For example, if you have a conflict with a co-worker, hitting or running from them is not likely a winning strategy that will effectively resolve it. To the contrary, such a response will probably decrease your chances of survival in that jungle known as corporate life. Yet these primitive drives propel us to fall back on the instincts and habits of our forbearers.

In fact, is there any more important situation when you need to have all of your most highly evolved capabilities running on all cylinders than during crises in today’s business world? That’s when you have to respond in ways that go against millions of years of instincts. In a crisis, you need to be at our most evolved best, using your all of the extensive powers that your cerebral cortex can offer you. You must stay calm and rational. You need to be able to think methodically, flexibly, and creatively to discover solutions where the old rules and practices often won’t work. You must reason and problem solve. You need to think through options and make effective decisions. ]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Growth: Align Your Values and Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I described the essential role that values play in the life you lead. I also showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prime Sport Alert!: Prime Training: It&#8217;s All about Quality</title>
		<link>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/sports/sports-prime-training-its-about-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/sports/sports-prime-training-its-about-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite what many athletes and coaches believe, competitions aren’t won on the day of the competition, just before the competition, or even during the competition. Rather, they are won in training in the weeks and months leading up to the competition. What you do in training will determine how you perform and the ultimate outcome of the competition. Training is where the development of Prime Sport begins. It’s the place where all of the physical, technical, tactical, and mental requirements of sport are established.

Despite this importance, I’m constantly amazed by the poor quality of training that I see athletes engage in, even at the world-class and professional levels. I see poor effort, ineffective focus, and little intensity. Yet these athletes expect to perform their best in competition. That’s unlikely to happen because they’re not engaging in prime training. Prime training involves maintaining the highest level of effort, focus, and intensity consistently throughout a practice session. Without prime training, Prime Sport will never be achieved.

Too often, I see athletes begin training without any clear idea of what they’re doing there. They have nothing in particular they’re working on to improve. When this happens, athletes are not only not improving, they’re also making it more difficult to improve because they’re further ingraining old and ineffective skills, which makes it harder to learn new skills.]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting: Pride in My Bride: A Mother’s Day Tribute</title>
		<link>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/parenting/parenting-pride-in-my-bride-a-mothers-day-tribute/</link>
		<comments>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/parenting/parenting-pride-in-my-bride-a-mothers-day-tribute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mother’s Day is on Sunday. Unfortunately, my own mother died some years ago, so I can’t celebrate the day with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Growth: Your Values, Your Life</title>
		<link>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/personal-growth/personal-growth-your-values-your-life/</link>
		<comments>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/personal-growth/personal-growth-your-values-your-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your values form the foundation of your life. They dictate the choices you make and determine the direction that your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest News: A New Philosophy at drjimtaylor.com</title>
		<link>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/latest-news/latest-news-a-new-philosophy-at-drjimtaylor-com/</link>
		<comments>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/latest-news/latest-news-a-new-philosophy-at-drjimtaylor-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just updated my Philosophy page so that it fully explains why and how I do what I do. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Growth: Identify Your Needs and NEEDS!</title>
		<link>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/personal-growth/personal-growth-identify-your-needs-and-needs/</link>
		<comments>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/personal-growth/personal-growth-identify-your-needs-and-needs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I begin working with people with dysfunctional life inertias, I ask them what their needs and NEEDS! are. Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology: Is Technology the New Opiate of the Masses?</title>
		<link>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/technology/technology-is-technology-the-new-opiate-of-the-masses/</link>
		<comments>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/technology/technology-is-technology-the-new-opiate-of-the-masses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Karl Marx famously called religion the “opiate of the masses.” Well, to paraphrase Reggie Hammond, Eddie Murphy’s character in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest News: New York Times Magazine Letter to the Editor</title>
		<link>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/latest-news/latest-news-new-york-times-magazine-letter-to-the-editor/</link>
		<comments>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/latest-news/latest-news-new-york-times-magazine-letter-to-the-editor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Letter to the Editor was published in the New York Times Magazine today in response to the cover story from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting: Should Parents Raise Their Own Children?</title>
		<link>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/parenting/parenting-should-parents-raise-their-own-children/</link>
		<comments>http://drjimtaylor.com/2.0/parenting/parenting-should-parents-raise-their-own-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is, I realize, a rather heretical question to ask given the size of the “parent-industrial complex,” the fact that [...]]]></description>
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