Will Bowen's Blog, page 54
June 16, 2019
JumpStart – Gratitude
SYNOPSIS Hedonic Adaptation explains so many things. Hedonic Adaptation may also explain why you struggle with being pessimistic. Hedonic Adaptation, you’ll remember, is a human being’s propensity to adapt to ongoing experiences. The best example is how the first bite of pizza always tastes better than the last. You adapt, and so each bite tastes […]
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June 13, 2019
JumpStart – Just a Little More
SYNOPSIS The other day as I walked into the gym I looked around and noticed the people who were there. Over the next hour as I did my exercise, I noticed many of them leaving and others showing up. What really caught my attention is that between the people who are in good shape as […]
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June 12, 2019
JumpStart – Magnanimity
SYNOPSIS I was recently listening to a podcast about Genghis Khan, and I learned some amazing things. Not a nice guy, ol’ Genghis, but he still offered some suggestions on how we can live and work better. For example, what do you think Genghis Khan did to an enemy soldier who shot his horse out […]
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June 11, 2019
JumpStart – Being Capable
SYNOPSIS Everybody has some level of “learned helplessness.” When anything having to do with technology comes up, my wife’s mind goes blank and fails to function. For years, I hired other people to do the bookkeeping for our business even though they were basically letting software programs handle everything. Why? I’m not smart enough,” I […]
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June 10, 2019
JumpStart – What’s Eating You?
SYNOPSIS For years, I suffered from severe indigestion. I was already vegan, so I also cut out gluten, sugar, fried foods, anything I could think of, but every day it felt like someone was slowly sticking a hot poker into my chest. Doctors prescribed medications, I took supplements — nothing worked. However, when I begin […]
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June 9, 2019
JumpStart – Empathy
SYNOPSIS Would you believe that in many cases guilt and empathy are proportional? Think about it – – a person who has very little empathy for others also has very little guilt about their impact on others. I know what you’re thinking and, yes, there is certainly the concept of having “too much guilt“ and […]
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June 6, 2019
JumpStart – Treading Softly
SYNOPSIS One of the more amazing things I have learned recently is how people naturally underestimate their own force and escalate to compensate for the perceived force of others. Check out this experiment: one person was asked to squeeze another person on the forearm. That person was then asked to squeeze the first person back […]
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June 5, 2019
JumpStart – Driving
SYNOPSIS Many people complain about the lack of civility on social media these days. However, our penchant for attacking other people who are perceived to be somewhat removed from us is not a new thing. All you have to do is look at how drivers treat one another. One of the things I found most […]
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June 4, 2019
JumpStart – The Moralization Gap
SYNOPSIS Here is one of the most interesting studies I have read. In an attempt to understand people‘s motives, behavioral scientists found that the crimes we as individuals commit we consider to be “justifiable and forgivable.“ When it comes to the crimes of other people, however, we consider those to be “unprovoked and grievous.” This […]
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June 3, 2019
JumpStart – Focus
SYNOPSIS What the HECK was going on? It looked like kids had snuck up to my house and burned streaks onto the exterior. Not only that, the burn marks on the house were happening more frequently and huge scorches were appearing every day or so. The weird thing is that my security cameras weren’t catching […]
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