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WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Permission Is An Asset

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Quote of the day

Permission is an asset, and it is the heart of what can be built online in the connection economy. But permission is notoriously unresilient. If the message doesn’t get through, nothing happens.

~SETH GODIN, author ofThe Icarus Deception

ECONOMY

Actually, we need more Harvard Professors who would call out overcharges at a restaurant, Slate

AGING

Why everything you think about aging may be wrong, WSJ

NETWORKING

Get the word out vs. Find the oth...

The Wider a Novel’s Theme, The Better It Is As a Work of Art

The Art of Fictiongives a private series of extemporaneous lectures, analyzing the four essential elements of fiction.

If you know where your inspiration really comes from, you will never run out of material.

A rational writer can stoke his subconscious just as one puts fuel in a machine. If you keep on storing things in your mind for your future writing and keep integrating your choice of theme to your general knowledge, allowing the scope of your writing to grow as your knowledge widens, then...

From Storytelling to Storylistening

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John Maedais a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, academic, andauthor of Redesigning Leadership.

A leader doesn’t start with storytelling, they start with storylistening.

Leaders bridge the past and the future and the present. (…) We don’t like change. But a great story from a leader can bring people long that path. This is how it was. And this is how it is.

When I think about the problem of working with organizations, audiences, teams...

THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: High Heels Have Power Over Men

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Quote of the day

Women’s shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men’s behavior. Simply put, they make women more beautiful.

~NICOLAS GUEGUEN, a behavioral science researcher.

CREATIVITY

Creativity emerges when you change-up the routine (How to Reach Enlightenment), The Creativity Post

SCIENCE

Study proves high heels do have power over men, Associated Press

Calling it sex when they mean love (S=ex2), Scientific American

SOCIAL SCIENCES

What...

Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength: Willpower

Willpowerhas become one of the most intensively studied topics in social science. Researchers around the world have found that improving willpower is the surest way to a better life.

While self-esteem is fundamental to our personal welfare, I believe, as researcher Baumeister exposes inWillpowerthat major problems, personal and social, center on failure on self-control: compulsive spending and borrowing, impulsive violence, underachievement in school, procrastination at work, alcohol and drug...

Less Stuff, More Happiness

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Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com and LifeEdited; he travels the world to tell stories of sustainability and minimalism. He is the author ofReady, Set, Green.

So how can you live little? Three main approaches.

First of all, you have to edit ruthlessly. We’ve got to clear the arteries of our lives. And that shirt that I hadn’t worn in years? It’s time for me to let it go. We’ve got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we’ve got to learn to...

HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: There’s Something to Learn From The Femenine

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Quote of the day

There are plenty of feminine ideas that could improve the way we run companies and solve problems: mercy, persuasion, listening to users, planning for long-term success. Diversity means more solutions and better innovation.

~ASH HUANG

RUNNING

Why running hurts every part of your body, Wired

PSYCHOLOGY

Why our memory fails us (The Invisible Gorilla), NYT

GENDER

She–If you want to know what it’s like to be a woman, watch Mulan, Medium

A...

The Magic of Thinking Big

If you have a desire for greater success and the intelligence to select a tool to help you realize that desire, then, David J. Schwartz says that you think big and you’ll live big.

The Magic of Thinking Biggives dozens of hardheaded, practical ideas, techniques, and principles that will enable you to harness the tremendous power of thinking big.

Step One:Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.

1. Think success, don’t think failure.

2. Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you t...

Don’t Complain, Create

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Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss born and raised graphic designer, runs four “side-projects gone businesses” out of DUMBO, Brooklyn; a collaborative co-working space called Studiomates, a global, monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings, TeuxDeux the simple to-do app and Tattly, a design-y temporary tattoo shop.

The most important part that my kids have told me is that while I really really like my work, my work is not me.

(My personal) rules for...

TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Myth of Wealthy Men and Beautiful Women

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Quote of the day

In real-life dating studies, which get closer to genuine intentions, physical attractiveness and earning potential strongly predict romantic attraction.

~JAMES HAMBLIN

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

What entrepreneurial desire you possess? (The Age of the Customer), Forbes

CREATIVITY

John Cleese:Nobody has any idea at first (So, Anyway…), Creative Something

RELATIONSHIPS

The myth of wealthy men and beautiful women, The Atlantic

AMAZON

Watch how Amazon’s robo...