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Flourishing: Seeing Challenges, Not Threats
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, January 25, 2013. Seeing Challenges, Not Threats. Tomorrow you’re going to give a presentation to your most important client. Or you’re going to face the toughest player in a tennis tournament. Or your manager just handed you a critical project. How do we react when faced with these challenging situations? What makes them different? Sheds some light on this. The article shows that we can be taught how to prepare for this.
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Flourishing: July 2013
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, July 26, 2013. By James Clear summarizes the research of Amy Cuddy, a Harvard University researcher, who studies body language. It includes a link to Cuddy's original article on what she calls Power Poses and her TED talk. Check it out! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Subscribe in a reader. View my complete profile.
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Flourishing: December 2011
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Wednesday, December 28, 2011. Saving the New Year - Megan McArdle. This post by Megan McArdle doesn't at first glance appear to fall in the category of self-development and yet I feel it's worth sharing for her basic advice. Saving the New Year - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic. The important thing is to. Savings should be the first thing you do, not the last. After you've saved,. Saturday, December 24, 2011. Henry Scuot...
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Trying to be reasonable in an often unreasonable age. Welcome to Thinking Objectively! My goal in my writing is to look at issues and events while trying to be as objective as I can. One thing I have learned over my 60 years on Earth is that being objective is not easy! We are influenced in many ways, both consciously and subconsciously. We also tend to settle into one way of thinking then quit asking ourselves tough questions about our beliefs. Friendly critiques of Ayn Rand's Objectivism.
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Flourishing: October 2013
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Tuesday, October 22, 2013. The Difference Between Saying "I Don't" versus "I Can't". Reveals the drastic affect of saying "I don't" do something such as eating a tempting snack or skipping an exercise session versus saying "I can't" allow myself to eat that snack or skip my workout. The author explains why. Be sure to check the links in the article for the research behind this conclusion. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Flourishing: December 2012
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, December 14, 2012. The Science of Productivity. This short article,. The Science of Productivity. By Gregory Ciotti, covers a lot of bases and gives good advice (I think) based on recent research on our the brain works. Ciotti leads off with the finding that willpower is a limited resource and "can be used up in it's entirety! So it's important to manage this limited resource with the techniques in this article. Henry Sc...
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Flourishing: January 2013
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, January 25, 2013. Seeing Challenges, Not Threats. Tomorrow you’re going to give a presentation to your most important client. Or you’re going to face the toughest player in a tennis tournament. Or your manager just handed you a critical project. How do we react when faced with these challenging situations? What makes them different? Sheds some light on this. The article shows that we can be taught how to prepare for this.
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Flourishing: November 2011
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Monday, November 14, 2011. In the Boston Globe nicely summarizes a book I just finished reading, Willpower: Rediscovering The Greatest Human Strength. By Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney. Willpower, it turns out, is one of the most important predictors of success in life. Thursday, November 10, 2011. Video Critique: Steve Jobs (Stanford Commencement, 2005) Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Henry Scuoteguaz...
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Wyatt's Torch: Reason, Self-Interest, Liberty: December 2011
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Wyatt's Torch: Reason, Self-Interest, Liberty. Friday, December 30, 2011. The Moral Foundations of Occupy Wall Street - Jonathan Haidt, Reason Magazine. Jonathan Haidt, author of one of my favorite books, The Happiness Hypothesis, applies his theory of moral foundations to the Occupy Wall Street movement. I’ve provided some quotes below. I like his approach. So what is the mix of moral foundations at Occupy Wall Street (OWS)? I particularly like what he says in the last paragraph about fairness. While fa...
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Wyatt's Torch: Reason, Self-Interest, Liberty: April 2012
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Wyatt's Torch: Reason, Self-Interest, Liberty. Wednesday, April 18, 2012. The News Media as Instructors not Reporters. This story sums up everything that is wrong with the media, and why it is dying - and why it should die. The media is no longer in the information business. They are in the instruction business. This is an important distinction. You cannot just offer information willy-nilly to children. …. You must be protective of Children, who are, in final analysis, incompetent (legally as well as act...
