Category: Mindset
I’m going to present 2 short videos here. One is a strong endorsement of the practice of power posing. And the other offers a more measured view. Bullish View Balanced View The videos above discuss 3 popular power poses illustrated in the header image for this post. Apparently holding each of these poses for just…
The article, Dopamine Detoxes Don’t Work: Here’s What To Do Instead, seems to me to be another link in a chain of catchy but misleading titles on the subject of general impulse control. But after stripping away the noise, I think we can learn something from the article. Oversimplification? The premise of this article is…
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When…
I recently discovered the expression, “novelty drain”, coined by Chase Hughes. Chase is founder and CEO of Applied Behavior Research, leading behavior expert, and author. In Hughes’ usage, a novelty drain refers to the idea that frequent, unmanaged novelty (new experiences, changes, stimuli, etc.) can deplete your attention and cognitive/psychological resources. This in turn reduces…
The ancient Chinese game of Weiqi is probably better known in the Western world by its Japanese name, Go (Baduk in Korean). Go is a two-player strategy game where players, playing as black or white, take turns placing stones on a grid to claim territory and surround their opponent’s stones, not by attacking one piece…
The specific combination of “Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward” is widely attributed to author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell. He popularized the concept through his 2000 book, Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success. But this mantra has been taken up by many in the personal improvement space. As…
One thing that has held me back immensely in life is the fact that I generally avoided challenges that I didn’t believe I would succeed at on my first try. I made the mistake of associating failure with being a loser. But nothing could be further from the truth. Think about this quote from MJ.…
The website, InformationIsBeautiful.net put together the infographic below listing novels that all well-rounded adults should have read. Reading the classics brings increasing benefits over time. Here are a few. Novels Everyone Should Read a “consensus cloud” of most mentioned titles from book polls & top 10 lists informationisbeautiful.net→ Want More? For a similar list for…
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain Miriam Quick put together the list of non-fiction books below. Reading high-quality non-fiction brings increasing benefits over time. Here are a few. “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” –…
I’ve shared Chase Hughes’ content before. Chase is founder and CEO of Applied Behavior Research, leading behavior expert, and author. In the video below, Chase describes a psychological self-assessment exercise called a Dopamine Map. Here is a mock-up of what your dopamine map could look like. You can create this by hand on a blank…
