2. Examine your recent unexpected successes and failures in your business. Could they be indicative of a trend that you can take advantage of? ccc_tracy_8_136-153.qxd 6/23/03 2:48 PM Page 153 Think Like a Genius ➤ 153 3. Approach each problem in your life systematically. Imagine that the solution is exactly the opposite of what you are cur- rently doing. 4. Continually expose your mind to new ideas and viewpoints. Ask lots of questions. Consider the possibility that you could be wrong. 5. Listen to educational audio programs in your car. Turn your car into a mobile classroom, a “university on wheels.” 6. Select an area where expertise can help you to move ahead in your career. Develop a plan to study and learn everything you
intends me to think, or is at least willing to allow me to think, that q; and so he has implicated that q. (p. 50) ("Implicate" is Grice's technical term for this indirect means of communication.) When I utter "There's the door," I intend my visitor to reason in Grice's way. Roughly: "The door? The door has nothing to do with anything I cur- rently have in mind. So, by the Maxim of Relevance (M5), the door must be relevant to something he has in mind. And he knows (and knows . . . ) that 160 Pragmatics and speech acts I must have worked that out. So he has deliberately shown me that he wants me to know where the door is. Why might that be? Egad, he must want me to go out the door." Of course, all this reasoning takes place subconsciously and at very high speed. (Grice himself did not offer his system as a literal
Ø. Jørgensen, M. intermedius are opportunistic pathogens in Madsen, and L. B. Jensen. 2000. Antimicrobial sus- implant infections, due to their ability to form ceptibility and presence of resistance genes in staphy- biofilm on prosthetic materials. lococci from poultry. Veterinary Microbiology 74:353–364. The S. xylosus and S, carnosus strains cur- Agvald-Ohman, C., B. Lund, and C. Edlun. 2004. rently used as starter cultures or isolated from Multiresistant coagulase-negative staphylococci dis- fermented meat products generally lack toxin seminate frequently between intubated patient into a multidisciplinary intensive care unit. Critical Care genes. The absence of genes coding for 8:42–47. staphylococcal enterotoxins or enterotoxin- Ahn, C., D. Collins-Thompson, C. Duncan, and M.
searchers have been able to increase significantly the turnout at the polls among those called (Greenwald, Carnot, Beach, ~Young, 1987; Spangenberg ~ Greenwald, in press). Courtroom combatants appear to have adopted this practice of extracting a lofty initial commitment that is designed to spur future consistent behavior. When screening potential jurors before a trial, Jo-Ellen Demitrius, the woman cur- rently reputed to be the best consultant in the business of jury selection asks an art- ful question: "If you were the only person who believed in my client's innocence, could you withstand the pressure of the rest of the jury to change your mind?" How could any self-respecting prospective juror say no? And, having made the public promise, how could any self-respecting selected juror repudiate it later? Perhaps an even more crafty commitment technique has been developed by
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