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February 25, 2015
John Maeda On The Laws Of Simplicity
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Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.
In The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda offers ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design–guidelines for needing less and actually getting more.
1. REDUCE: The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
The fundamental question is, where’s the balance between simplicity and complexity: How simple can you make it? vs How complex does it ha...
The Power Of Not Yet: Believing That You Can Improve
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If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.
Carol Dweck is a pioneering researcher in the field of motivation, why people succeed (or don’t) and how to foster success. Dweck is a professor...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth And Happiness
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Quote of the day
A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.
~RICHARD H. THALER, author ofNudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
THE BRAIN
This doctor made a blind man see and an autistic boy speak, Bloomberg| Tweet
Parkinson’s, dyslexia, multiple sclerosis, and cereb...
February 24, 2015
Little Tricks for Big Success In Relationships
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Keep good eye contact
How to Talk to Anyoneoffers some techniques on how to communicate for success. Here ar
e three of them.
How to make someone feel like an old friend at once
Zig Ziglar, author ofSee You at the Top, says that ‘People don’t care how much you know until they know how much care… about them’
When meeting someone, our brains are in overdrive. Remember Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? He said of Cassius, he ‘has a lean and hungry look… he th...
Martin Heidegger on Being and Time
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Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing”- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense […] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for ex...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: How To Stop Doubting Your Greatness And Start Living An Awesome Life
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Quote of the day
Follow what feels good in the moment, every moment, and it will lead you through a most excellent life.
~JEFF SINCERO, author ofYou Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Six habits of confident people, Fast Company| Tweet
Self-doubt is common—especially in women—and for many the feeling remains constant. A survey of British managers done by the Institute of Leadership and Manag...
February 23, 2015
Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap…And Others Don’t
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Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.
~BERTRAND RUSSELL
Jim Collins says that Good is the enemy of Great. Why?
We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority becom...
Helen Fisher On The Brain In Love
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Video of the day:
Oh, I would stake all for you.
~WALT WHITMAN
Anthropologist Helen Fisher studies gender differences and the evolution of human emotions. She’s best known as an expert on romantic love, and her beautifully penned books — including Anatomy of Love
and Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love— lay bare the mysteries of our most treasured emotion.
She and her colleagues Art Aron and Lucy Brown and others, have put 37 people who are...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Surprising Truth About What You Eat
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Quote of the day
Washed and ready-to-eat salads: “Cleaned” by sloshing around in tap water dosed with chlorine, often with powdered or liquid fruit acids to inhibit bacterial growth. The same tank of treated water is often used for 8 hours at a time.
~JOANNA BLYTHMAN, author ofSwallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets
MOTIVATION
The trolls inside, Seth’s Blog| Tweet
The worst troll is in your head.
February 20, 2015
The Dalai Lama On The Four Noble Truths
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For as long as space exists
And sentient beings endure,
May I too remain,
To dispel the misery of the world.
~SHANTIDEVA.
The Four Noble Truths
are the most central tenets of Tibetan Buddhism.
1. The truth of suffering
Buddhism describes three levels or types of suffering:
1.1. The suffering of suffering. These experiences are painful. In Buddhism there are four main experiences of this type of suffering which are considered to be fundamental to life in samsara: th...
