What do all of the people below have in common?

Tony Robbins
Author of Awaken the Giant Within who offers corporate training programs, seminars, and keynotes in the areas of sales, peak performance, leadership, teamwork, and communication.

Robert Kiyosaki
Investor, businessman and best-selling author of, Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Spencer Johnson
His ten international bestselling books include #1 bestsellers: Who Moved My Cheese? The #1 all-time bestselling book of Amazon.com during its first ten years, and The One Minute Manager, the world's most popular management method for over two decades.

Jack Canfield
An American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series.

Bobbi Deporter
President of Learning Forum, producing Quantum Learning and SuperCamp programs for students, teachers, schools and learning organizations throughout the world.

Mark Victor Hansen
American inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer and author. He is best known as the founder and co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series.

Jac Holzman
Founder Elektra Records discovered and signed such legendary acts as The Doors, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band folk singer Judy Collins.

These were all students that studied with Marshall Thurber BEFORE they became successful!

Who did Marshall Thurber study with?

R. Buckminster Fuller "For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known…All humanity now has the option of becoming enduringly successful." - Buckminster Fuller,

R. Buckminster Fuller, known by his friends as "Bucky", has undeniably been one of the key innovators in the 20th century. Much like Ben Franklin, Bucky was a Comprehensivist. He was philosopher, thinker, visionary, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet, and cosmologist. Buckminster Fuller was one of the first futurists and global thinkers. He coined the term "Spaceship Earth."

Bucky’s Dymaxion Map of the world is first world projection to show the continents on a flat surface without visible distortion. Furthermore, this view shows the earth as being essentially one island in one ocean.

Bucky popularized the term Synergy, where the result is always greater than the sum of its parts. Synergy in know understood to be a basic principle of all interactive systems. Bucky’s work in this area created the science of Synergetics, a "Geometry of Thinking".

Fuller is the inventor of the Geodesic dome, and was a pioneer in utilizing basic geometical shapes in design. Bucky predicted the existence of what is now known as Fullerenes. They are a family of carbon allotropes, molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, or plane . Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, and cylindrical ones are called buckytubes. Fullerenes were discovered after Bucky’s death and Richard Smalley and this discovery earned Smalley a Nobel Prize.

A key focus for Buckminster Fuller was the development of "Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science.", The purpose was to anticipate and solve humanity's major problems by providing "more and more life support for everybody, with less and less resources." Fuller routinely demonstrated his ideas in what he called "artifacts", tangible prototypes or models of designs and principles.

W. Edwards Deming The father of the world wide quality movement, Deming is considered by U.S. News and World Report as one of the “Nine Hidden Points in History.” Dr. W. Edwards Deming is known as the father of the Japanese post-war industrial revival and was regarded by many as the leading quality guru in the United States. Trained as a statistician, his expertise was used during World War II to assist the United States in its effort to improve the quality of war materials.

He was invited to Japan at the end of World War II by Japanese industrial leaders and engineers. Dr. Deming told the group that if they would follow his directions, they could shift the perception of the world from the existing paradigm that Japan produced cheap, shoddy imitations to one of producing innovative quality products in five years. Few of the leaders believed him. But they were ashamed to say so and would be embarrassed if they failed to follow his suggestions

Much later Deming was invited to Ford Motor Company when it was losing $1.5 billion a quarter. Deming predicted that if Ford was to survive it had to focus on creating the most value added (DyVal) automobile possible. The Ford Taurus was the outcome of Deming’s DyVal focus. It became Ford’s best selling car ever and saved the company from bankruptcy.

Georgi Lozanov A professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy from Bulgaria developed who is now credited with creating the foundation for Accelerated Learning. His early program, which focused on teaching a foreign language, included relaxation, visual arts and music. Students learned from one hundred to one thousand new vocabulary words a day with at least ninety-eight percent retention. He called his new method "Suggestology," based on the theory that suggestions can and do affect the outcome of learning.

According to Lozanov, Suggestology is an organized way of augmenting natural learning. It builds on those methods that allow us to learn most effectively and efficiently, emulating some of the ways we learned as a young child. Suggestology recaptures the natural learning process and accelerates the understanding and retention of content.

Are you a Positive Deviant?

This may be the single most important activity
you can do for yourself and your career!

What is POSITIVE DEVIANCE?

Positive Deviant Theory - Bell Curve

Deviance is the distance someone or something is from the center of the bell curve. Almost all wealth and positive change comes from .1% of all human beings. It always has and always will be that way.

That one person in a thousand thinks and acts very differently. You can confirm or learn about positive deviancy right here. If you would like a FREE twelve page report on How Positive Deviancy and Network Science Can Speed Your Success by Ten to Twenty Times, register now using our easy sign-up form below.

Throughout the world, there are a few “positive deviant” individuals whose uncommon behaviors or practices enable them to outperform or find better solutions to pervasive problems, even though they share the same resource base as their associates. They consistently identify and exploit existing resources to provide unique solutions (Dynamic Value or DyVal). (What is Dyval? See the video below.)

At first glance, there seems nothing particularly profound in the observation that “some people do better than others.” However, within the context of traditional societal development theory, there is indeed something revolutionary about the identification and training of the “Positive Deviants.”

In the publishing business any time a hard cover book sells over 50,000 copies during its entire life it is considered a best seller. I put the Positive Deviant’s principles to work selling my book Missed Fortune 101 and I sold over 51,000 copies in the first month! I did this without being an established author. - Douglas P. Andrew, Paramount Financial Services, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah

It is the Positive Deviants who provide proof that it is possible to find viable solutions today to complex problems before all the inter-related factors underlying the problem can even addressed.

If you would like to see where you presently stand on the Positive Deviant scale, just respond to the situation designed to assess your Positive Deviancy level. Your response is individually scored by a live positive deviant professional. To get your FREE score all you have to do is register now and respond to the issue. Your answer will be studied and we will return to you a FREE analysis of where you stand on the Positive Deviancy Scale. All you have to do is register now using our easy sign-up form below: register now

If you would like to see where you presently stand on the Positive Deviant Scale, just respond to the situation designed to assess your Positive Deviancy level. Your response is individually scored by a live positive deviant professional. To get your FREE score all you have to do is register now and respond to the issue. Your answer will be studied and we will return to you a FREE analysis of where you stand on the Positive Deviancy Scale. All you have to do is register now using our easy sign-up form below: you will receive your FREE user name and password so you can find out where you stand on the Positive Deviant Scale. Register now.

Positive Deviants are very confident in what they know AND they are also very confident in what they don’t know. Because of this they know when to act and when not to act. This ten question diagnostic on How Well You Think also asks that you state how confident you are in each answer. Two of the richest people in the world, like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, do extremely well on assessments like this. Look at the first question below to experience how this works.

Question One

A certain town is served by two hospitals. In the larger hospital about 45 babies are born each day and in the smaller hospital about 15 babies are born each day. Generally, about 50% of all babies are boys. However, the exact percentage varies from day to day. Sometimes it will be higher and sometimes lower.

For a period of one year, each hospital recorded the days in which more than 60% of the babies born were boys. Which hospital recorded more such days?

A) The larger hospital.
B) The smaller hospital.
C) About the same (that is, within 5% of each other).

My answer (check one) ____ A ____ B ____ C

How Confident Are You of Answer One?
Predict the probability that you got above question correct:
(check one)

.33

1.0

highly unlikely

somewhat unlikely

50-50 chance

somewhat unlikely

highly likely

100% certain

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A Gallup study of over 2,000,000 people (by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.) states that the average person makes approximately 1,000 decisions a day. That is 365,000 a year—in fact, the average person makes 200 decisions on food alone. Just a slight improvement in knowing what you know and being aware of what you don’t know will dramatically improve your success. How can we make such a claim?.....because the theory of initial conditions states this as a fact.

If you would like a to take this FREE quiz of how you can almost effortlessly improve you success by using The Theory of Initial Conditions just register on that site: now using our easy sign-up form below: you will receive your FREE user name and password so you can own this important report. Register now.

The vast majority of Positive Deviants use four elements that dramatically enhance their success. One of these is Network Science. The structural change of the Internet requires a deep understanding how networks work and how to optimize them. The latest network research proves that corporations and living organisms are very similar. Understanding of the rapidly evolving science of networks improve your to:

1) build a successful business and/or
2) exchange ideas and information (and thus influence public and political policy)

I started working with the Positive Deviants’ principles on the seventh month of last year. Using these principles we booked more new business in December than the previous eleven months combined. The principles provide the intellectual capital behind the next generation’s high end solutions. - David G. Neenan, Neenan Construction Company, Fort Collins, Colorado

The power of networks is changing the world strategy. The “netwar” in Iraq has not been won with force. Networks yield to power yet continue to thrive. As Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, who took command of American ground forces in January [06], tells his troops that the only way they will defeat the insurgency is to do less shooting and more rebuilding. To own a FREE copy THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: STRATEGY; Top General in Iraq Aims to Shoot Less, Rebuild More just register using our easy sign-up form below: you will receive your FREE user name and password so you can own this important report.

How did this happen? A year and a half ago, Positive Deviant Marshall Thurber submitted a paper entitled A Historic Choice to four U.S. generals (one four star, two three stars and one two star). One of them was three star Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli. Judge for yourself what the impact of the A Historic Choice analysis may have had on the Iraq war. Just register using our easy sign-up form below: you will receive your FREE user name and password so you can own this important report.

Positive Deviants are by definition different. They have joined The Positive Deviant Network (PDN) to share and explore different perspectives. Each sees the future differently. The have joined the Positive Deviant Network to explore the “edges” of present reality. It doesn’t matter what the subject matter is. The only common denominator is that each is operating on the edge (some call it the frontier) where there is little agreement. Whether it is in business, prison reform, education, personal growth, politics or medicine each is on the edge working for positive change.

Would you like to meet a couple of members of the Positive Deviant Network? Just click below on a picture.

John Botti

Peter Turo

Keith Anderson

Positive Deviant Darryl Schoon predicted the economic crisis we are now experiencing several years ago. Brilliant and, like the other Positive Deviants, his thinking is on the edge. Darryl’s Time of the Vulture, An Analysis of the Economic Crisis Facing the US and the World has proven to be very accurate. Those who have followed his lead over the last few years have done very well. Again, two years ago there was very little agreement for Darryl’s view of the world economy. Download the first chapter of his book FREE and judge for yourself. Just register now using our easy sign-up form below: you will receive your FREE user name and password so you can own this important report. Register now Click here and listen to Darryl as he addressed the Positive Deviant Network.

Positive Deviant Joseph Janiczek is an expert in wealth management. His company has been recognized numerous times for its excellence, and it succeeds time and again because of well thought out systems that he has created. Have you ever wondered how companies can continue to succeed as they move through the different stages of growth? Marshall Thurber and Joseph Janiczek review the five stages of Creative Destruction: The By-Pass Stage, the Emerging Stage, the Growth Stage, the Status Stage and the Depleted Stage. This will provide you with a fundamental understanding of the underlying cycle constantly affecting our lives, career, businesses and investments. Then, Joseph Janiczek will share his own success tool, the Double By-Pass(TM), to provide you with an optimal method to constantly live in the by-pass, emerging and growth stages and by-pass the status and depleted stages. Want to listen to the recorded conference call? Register now!