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March 23, 2015
Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
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Incompetence is context specific.
Situations Matteris athought-provoking and entertainingexploration of the invisible forces that influence your life—and how understanding them improves everything you do.
Just who do you think you are anyway?
We humans make it a habit wrestling with questions about the self. Existential musing lies at the heart of our most beloved forms of art. The question of who we really are sends us off on inspiring journeys of se...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Diamonds Are Bullshit
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Quote of the dayIn finance, there is a concept called intrinsic value. An asset’s value is essentially driven by the (discounted) value of the future cash that asset will generate. A diamond is a depreciating asset masquerading as an investment. Diamonds are not an investment. The market for them is not liquid, and diamonds are not fungible.
~PRICEONOMICS,Everything Is Bullshit: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
HEALTH
Homeopathy doesn’t...
March 20, 2015
Wisdom from The Analects of Confucius
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The Analects of Confucius
is the collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius. The Analects has been one of the most widely read and studied books in China for the last 2,000 years, and continues to have a substantial influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today.
BOOK 1
1.16. The Master said: “Don’t worry about not being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.”
BOOK 4
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The Key To Success? Grit
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Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.
~CAROL S. DWECK, author ofMindset: The New Psychology of Success
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful student...
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Art of Connectedness
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Quote of the dayThere are just too many smart, capable people out there. The hard truth is that the ones who get ahead are usually those who know how to make highly placed people feel good about having them around. The good news is that you can be one of them.
~KATHLEEN KELLY REARDON, author ofThe Secret Handshake: Mastering the Politics of the Business Inner Circle
FOOD
How to enjoy your food more, The Boston Globe| Tweet
Social psychologists of...
March 19, 2015
On Silence In Writing As In Life
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Whether you’re writing an argument, a love scene, a powwow among sixth graders or scientists in a lab, Writing Dialoguedemonstrates how to write dialogue that sounds authentic and original.
Quieting a character vs quieting the narrative
Quieting a character is a matter of tying not ot answer questions with dialogue but with action. There are also ways to quiet one character within the literal dialogue to let another character take over: understand...
The Innovator’s Cookbook: Essentials For Inventing What’s Next
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InThe Innovator’s Cookbook,Johnson compiles the best an
d most influential foundational texts and essays from field leaders including Stewart Brand, Clayton Christensen, Richard Florida, Teresa Amabile, Peter Drucker, Amar Bhide, and many more.
That’s President Obamafrom this year’s State of the Union address. He’s right of course. In fact, the importance of innovation may be the one...
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Happier At Home
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Quote of the dayThe pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn’t be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.
~GRETCHEN RUBIN, author ofHappier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
MOTIVATION
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Like the pilot says,...
March 18, 2015
You Are Not Your Mind
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Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
The Power of Now takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journ
ey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light.
What’s enlightenment?
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some super-human accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it...
Stephen Hawking On Questioning The Universe
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Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious, and however difficult life may seem,there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.
Professor Stephen Hawking, author of The Theory Of Everythingasks some Big Questions about our universe:
Where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out...
