RE:The power of persuasion. Those people and many more have one more quality: they have a positive outlook on things!!!! That is why you will never improve unless you change your outlook... oh yeah, if they did find something they were unhappy with, they changed things (eg. Jobs totally dropped work on the IIe because he discovered that Hewlett Packard had invented a computer thing he called a "mouse".... you did not see him continually whining about how long HP had their invention yet did not capitalize on it! Intellectual property is valuable, not buildings....