Showing posts with label Effective Habits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Effective Habits. Show all posts
Monday, December 5, 2011

Getting beyond the OK Plataues with 'deliberate practice'

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When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend . In...

Advice of the Day- We're on Borrowed Time

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  Charles Wheelan commencement talk; What it means for you, and what I’ve found to be one the great challenges of adulthood, is balanc...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Mind's Eye

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" The Mind's Eye. " Dr. Sacks focuses on creative people who have learned to compensate for potentially devastating disabi...

Book Quote of the Day

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It is no tragedy to think of the most successful people in any field as superheroes. But it is a tragedy when a belief in the judgment ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Assorted Tools

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Wikisummarizer Context Discovery Inc
Friday, October 7, 2011

The Education of Millionaires

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Learn to Invest in Yourself .” Bootstrapping your education involves getting on solid footing financially, and then making incremental inv...

Money Ball

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Highly Recommended Podcast- Expert Prediction

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The Folly of Prediction TETLOCK: That experts thought they knew more than they knew.That there was a systematic gap between subjectiv...
Friday, August 5, 2011

The Art of Listening- RASA

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Highly recommended talk by Julian Treasure (rating 5 out of 5); RASA- Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask Silence Help them to experi...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Barry Schwartz's Practical Wisdom

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Effective Habits of Political Advisors

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“He was and is a bare-knuckles administrator, and by that I mean someone who not only makes the trains run on time, he makes them run ahead ...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Holbrooke the Investment Banker

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Mr. Holbrooke also made millions as an investment banker on Wall Street. In the early 1980s, he was a co-founder of a Washington consulting ...

Be a Statistician, Be a Cynic

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“ I have a feeling that statisticians are cynics, because you realise how much of the stuff that you are told is true in the world is actual...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Learn from Bees

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In the final chapter , Seeley suggests five lessons we could learn from bees. • Compose a decision-making group of individuals with shared...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Memo to Self- Do you belong to the tribe of Infovore Warriors

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David Warsh profiles Tyler Cowen- Consider Cowen’s output last week on the blog – 34 items. Among them: entries n the the speech patterns...

Assorted websites

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Please Rob Me [don't post on Facebook that your houses are empty for the weeken] Graphy Your Inbox
Monday, September 6, 2010

Bertrand Russell's Three Passions

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Quote of the Day; Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, ...

John Grisham, the failed tax lawyer and construction worker

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Effective Habits from John Grisham - Halfway through college, and still drifting, I decided to become a high-powered tax lawyer. The plan ...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Contemplating the Meaning of Life

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The Big Picture on Ramadan
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Exlporing one's spirituality

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Advice of the Day - For me, having a clear purpose in my life has been essential. But it was something I had to think long and hard about ...