My post Introverts And Extraverts: Can’t We Just Get Along? on PickTheBrain hit the Digg front page. Thank you so much for your support!

I’m giving away a copy of Bill Strickland’s Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary. It’s about Bill’s story of growing up in a rough Pittsburgh ghetto, and eventually winning a genius grant from The MacArthur Foundation for his work in transforming disadvantaged children into productive citizens. While I gave the book a less than flattering review, it has been well received by others and it carries a 5-star rating on Amazon.

To enter the contest, just follow the instructions below. The only prerequisite is that you must have a blog (and if you don’t have one, you might want to consider starting a blog). If you enter and don’t win, your entry will roll forward to the next contest. International entries are OK.

1. Pick a post of mine that you especially liked. Any post with real content will do, but it has to be a post that appears here (not a guest post I wrote for another site).

If you look through my blog archives, there’s a good chance you can find a post related to your own blog’s topic. Here are some suggestions from the last 6 months:

Randy And His Wonderful Pauschisms
Overnight Success
Comparing America and Japan, Part 1
The Introverts Strike Back
What Is An Ebook Worth?
How To Be A Woman
Persistence Isn’t Using The Same Tactics Over And Over
Synchronicities: Just Coincidence, Or Signs From The Universe?
A Complaint Free World
The Difference Between The Dream World And The Real World
What Color Is Your Focusing Crystal?
Want To Dodge Bullets? Maybe You Don’t Have To!
Treading Water Only Delays Drowning
Are You A Gryffindor Or A Slytherin?

2. Write a post on the same topic as the post you picked. It doesn’t need to be a clone of my post, just related. For example, if you pick a post I wrote about blogging, you would then write a post about blogging, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be on precisely the same aspect of blogging. This must be a new post you’re writing; you can’t use one you’ve already written. And it must be of decent quality, not a spam post.

3. In your post, link to the post you picked, and write at least a couple of sentences saying why you liked my post or why people should read it.

4. Leave a comment on this post below, including the URL of your post in the body of the comment. You’re also welcome to leave a comment on this post without entering the contest; just don’t include a URL.

That’s easy enough, isn’t it? You have until 11:59 PM EST Tuesday, August 12, 2008 to enter. At that time, one winner will be selected at random from the eligible entries. Remember that if you enter but don’t win, your entry will roll forward to the next contest. Good luck!

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