As the CEO and Co-Founder of Endeavor, Linda Rottenberg works with entrepreneurs around the world on a daily basis, helping them grow their businesses for maximum impact. She is the author of Crazy Is a Compliment. Today entrepreneurship doesn’t just mean starting a tech company. It means undertaking any bold venture–from improving your neighborhood to selling crafts out of your… View Post
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: There’s no shortage of brilliant female economists
Quote of the day Even if, in our slow thinking, we work to avoid discrimination, it can easily creep into our fast thinking. Our snap judgments rely on all the associations we have—from fictional television shows to news reports. They use stereotypes, both the accurate and the inaccurate, both those we would want to use and ones we find repulsive…. View Post
Flow And The Psychology Of Discovery And Invention
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. ~MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI. In Creativity, Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, reveals the mysterious process by which men and women come up with new ideas and new things. Creative persons have one thing in common: They all love what… View Post
Do Humans Enjoy Being Free?
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism. Some of his famous works are Existentialism Is a Humanism, Being and Nothingness, and The Philosophy of Existentialism. Existentialist Jean Paul Sartre claimed that because there is no God, we are condemned to be free. In his… View Post
HUMP DAY LINKS: Reads on Writing & Better Living: Deconstructing Everything
Quote of the day I have a question. What is wine? ~FERRAN ADRIA, author of The Family Meal. GENDER Do sinking ships put women and children first? PNAS | Tweet Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of “women and children first” (WCF) gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime… View Post