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Monday Links ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Low Self-Esteem Can Kill You

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Self-esteem is the disposition to experience oneself as being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and of being worthy of happiness. It is confidence in the efficacy of our mind, in our ability to think. By extension, it is confidence in our ability to learn, make appropriate choices and decisions, and respond effectively to change. It is also the experience that success, achievement, fulfillment – happiness – are right and...

7 Life Lessons From Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius was the most modest, introspective and long-suffering of monarchs. He was a good man and an enlightened ruler who wished only the best for his people. He had been carefully chosen and groomed for his job. Sickly and serious-minded as a child, he had developed into a dedicated Stoic, a practitioner of a philosophy that preached simplicity, self-discipline, endurance and duty.

Here was the true philosopher-king thatPlato had ta...

Has Technology Changed Us?

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In Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield brings together a range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism to create an incisive snapshot of “the global now.”

Disputing the assumption that our technologies are harmless tools, Greenfield explores whether incessant exposure to social media sites, search engines, and videogames is capable of rewiring our brains, and wheth...

WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Hidden Benefits Of Gossip

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If being human is all about talking, it’s the tittle-tattle of life that makes the world go round, not the pearls of wisdom that fall from the lips of the Aristotles and the Einsteins. We are social beings, and our world–no less than that of the monkeys and apes–is cocooned in the interests and minutiae of everyday social life. They fascinate us beyond measure.

~ROBIN DUNBAR, author ofGrooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language

PSYCHOL...

The Mastery Of Love

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Thousands of years ago, the Toltec were known throughout southern Mexico as ‘women and men of knowledge’. Fortunately, the esoteric Toltec knowledge was embodied and passed on through generations by different lineages of naguals.

Now, don Miguel Ruiz, a nagual from the Eagle Knight Lineage, has been guided to share with us the powerful teachings of the Toltec in The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book

A Toltec...

Why Work Doesn’t Happen At Work

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Jason Fried thinks deeply about collaboration, productivity and the nature of work. He’stheco-founder of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and other web-based collaboration tools, and co-author ofRework.

Companies want you to come together in one place to do work

We have companies and non-profits and charities and all these groups that have employees or volunteers of some sort. And they expect these people who work for them to do great work.And so what they typ...

THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Going From Why Me? To Why Not?

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Giving up is a huge way people sabotage themselves. They try to do something once, it doesn’t work out, and they give up forever.

~KAREN BERG, author ofYour Self-Sabotage Survival Guide: How to Go From Why Me? to Why Not?

SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Don’t wait until rock bottom to search for signs of self-sabotage, Big Think| Tweet

You likely know someone in your life who has or hadlofty goals only to continuously allow bad habits to cause everything...

10 Secrets Of Richard Branson: The World’s Greatest Brand Builder

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To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

~RICHARD BRANSON.

Big Shots, Business the Richard Branson Way: 10 Secrets of the World’s Greatest Brand Buildernot only reveals the secrets of Bransons’ remarkable success, but also draws out the universal lessons and identifies strategies that can be applied to any business or career

1. Pick on someone bigger tha...

Plato On Love And Beauty

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

~PLATO,The Republic

Plato was born in Athens 2,400 years ago and is widely recognised as having been the founder of philosophy.

In order to convey what he believed philosophy could do for us, he made up a now-famous metaphor about a cave.

He compared human beings who had not learned how to philosophise to people living deep in the side of a moun...

HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Capturing People’s Attention

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It’s not about capturing attention for just yourself. It’s about capturing attention for the great ideas, the great art, the great projects that you have. Everybody has some passion more people should see or notice.

~BEN PARR, author ofCaptivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

MOTIVATION

7 Ways to capture some someone’s attention, HBR| Tweet

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