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LINKFEST ~ Best Reads on Better Living: Sidetracked

in Reads on Writing & Self-Publishing on 30/10/15

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Quote of the day

The decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked.
Three different sets of forces influence our decisions in ways we commonly fail to anticipate:

  1. Forces from within ourselves.
  2. Forces from our relationships with others,
  3. Forces from the outside world.

~FRANCESCA GINO, author of Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan

SELF-IMPROVEMENT

 

  • This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day, Barking up the wrong tree | Tweet

You read a lot on the internet about rituals that can help you be better in the morning or leap over tall building with a single bound. Maybe some celebrity does this one or that one. Yeah, wonderful. But what’s a simple solution customized for you — yes, you — that can make your happy moments happier, can help you overcome grief, increase your performance at work, and even stop procrastinating?

  • Are you interesting?, Seth’s Blog | Tweet

More interesting than you realize.

Related books:

  • Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan

  • How to Be Interesting: (In 10 Simple Steps)


HAPPINESS

 

  • What really makes you a happy person? The Creativity Post | Tweet

The experts say we only control 40 percent of our happiness. Are they right? 

Related book:

  • How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People–Their Secrets, Their Stories


CREATIVITY

  • A machine for ideas exists, Creative Something | Tweet

I was just sitting here wondering what it would feel like to plug into an “idea machine.”

Related book:

  • Become An Idea Machine: Because Ideas Are The Currency Of The 21st Century


THE BRAIN

 

  • Can you get smarter?, NYT | Tweet

YOU can increase the size of your muscles by pumping iron and improve your stamina with aerobic training. Can you get smarter by exercising — or altering — your brain?

Related book:

  • How to Become Smarter: Discover How to Increase Intelligence and Boost Brainpower


PSYCHOLOGY

 

  • Your job is literally ‘killing’ you, The Washington Post  | Tweet

People often like to groan about how their job is “killing” them. Tragically, for some groups of people in the U.S., that statement appears to be true.

  • What is social anxiety? The Atlantic | Tweet

In the age of the digital hermit, a psychologist explains what it means to avoid other people—and what to do about it.

  • It’s Harder to Empathize with People If You’ve Been in Their Shoes, HBR | Tweet

Imagine that you have just become a new parent. Overwhelmed and exhausted, your performance at work is suffering. You desperately want to work from home part-time to devote more attention to your family. One of your supervisors had children while climbing the corporate ladder, while the other hasn’t. Which supervisor is more likely to embrace your request?

  • The Bad Things That Happen When People Can’t Deal With Ambiguous Situations, Science of Us | Tweet

Just about everyone dislikes the feeling of not knowing the answer to an important question about what’s going to happen in the future. Generally speaking, waiting to hear whether you’ll get an important job, or to find out about a loved one’s diagnosis after a medical test, is a uniquely anxiety-provoking experience.

Related books:

  • Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

  • Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing

  • Social Anxiety: Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia to Achieve Success in all Social Situations (Anxiety Relief, Social Anxiety Treatment, Self Confidence Secrets)


SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

 

  • It Is Impossible to Stop Comparing Yourself to Your Peers, Science of Us | Tweet

They say comparison is the thief of joy, and this, as it turns out, is one cliché that has a raft of empirical evidence backing it up. But there is another truth about social comparison.

Related book:

  • Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life


RELATIONSHIPS

 

  • How Friendships Change in Adulthood, The Atlantic | Tweet

“We need to catch up soon!”

Related book:

  • The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for


FOOD

 

  • How salad can make us fat, NYT | Tweet

WHEN marketing researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School rigged shopping carts at a major East Coast supermarket with motion-tracking radio-frequency tags, they unwittingly stumbled on a metaphor for our path through the aisles of life.

  • Are vegetables the new meat?, Vogue | Tweet

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising,” wrote Gertrude Stein, “and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.” Sigh.

Related book:

  • Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes


SCIENCE

 

  • People Don’t Actually Want Equality, The Atlantic | Tweet

They want fairness.

  • The Myth of Basic Science, WSJ | Tweet

Does scientific research drive innovation? Not very often, argues Matt Ridley: Technological evolution has a momentum of its own, and it has little to do with the abstractions of the lab

Related book:

  • Fairness Is Overrated: And 51 Other Leadership Principles to Revolutionize Your Workplac


MARKETING

 

  • The other element of guerilla marketing, Seth’s Blog | Tweet

The first element is the guts to do things without money or bureaucratic approval. The guerrilla marketer doesn’t wait for a policy, or a developed industry or a line to form. She steps up and speaks up.

Related book:

  • Guerilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business


ECONOMICS

 

  • Why Uber Has To Start Using Self-Driving Cars, Nautilus | Tweet

In the span of nearly 5 years, Uber has gone from a limited launch in San Francisco to offering rides in more than 300 cities worldwide. In China alone, despite existing in a legal gray zone, the company claims it arranges 1 million rides per day. That means 35 Chinese people hop into an Uber there every time you blink.

  • The Economics of Male Birth Control, Priceonomics | Tweet

When it comes to reversible birth control, there are a lot of options out there for women: pills, rings, intra uterine devices, patches, implants. Men, on the other hand, are still limited to the same two contraceptive techniques they’ve been using for centuries: condoms and withdrawal. The question is, why?


 BUSINESS

 

  • Working From Home: Awesome or Awful?, The Atlantic  | Tweet

Telecommuting can increase employee satisfaction and decrease turnover. It can also be lonely.

Related book:

  • There’s No Place Like Working From Home: Get Organized, Stay Motivated, Get Things Done!

 

 

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