And general awareness --we've become relaxed, but when you go to a stadium, or a movie theater, or a new place of business, I think it's important to have your antennae up, and get in the habit of going in, assessing the situation, agreeing with yourself that it looks like business as usual, and then spotting the exits.

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Where else can you walk past a foreshortened version of the Eiffel Tower, straddling what looks like the Paris Opera, and think to yourself, compared to the pirate ship down the street that looks almost classy?

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Probably because nothing is more important that creating a picture of what winning looks like for your organization, your team and yourself.

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You walk a 100 yards off the track, passing through a landscape that looks just like northern Nevada, when suddenly you find yourself face-to-face with a wildebeest, 500 springbok, or a giraffe.

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Nintendo's already dipped its toes into motion-sensing handheld gaming with the gyro-equipped WarioWare: Twisted for the Game Boy Advance, but it looks like the company looks has even grander plans to let you make a fool of yourself in public, at least if a recent patent application is any indication.

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And if you don't see a role model, you say to yourself, my gosh, I can't be like that person because there's nobody who looks like me and I don't inspire too much, and that's a problem.

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