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The ScrapBook Collection - September 2019 (Video-Book)
Retrospective on some latest news and thoughts concerning ideas and principles of coaching we work with. The collected data is presented in a little scrappy & artsy video-book.This is the September 2019 issue #3
What I am reading, Listening to
Learning :
Learning How to Learn with Barbara Oakley —The Knowledge Project Episode #31 — Farnam Street
Barbara Oakley: "Learning How to Learn" — Talks at Google
Learning Is Supposed to Feel Uncomfortable — Harvard Business Review
Motivation :
How to motivate employees? Don’t — Know your Team
The Relationship Between Need Fulfillment and Motivation — Edward Deci — Farnam Street
Other Topics :
The Art of Getting Things Done — David Allen —The Tim Ferris Show Podcast
Legendary show-business manager, agent, and producer Shep Gordon talks sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He also shares the Formula for Manufacturing Fame, and his unique philosophy on success, love and happiness —The Knowledge Project Episode #65 — Farnam Street
Exploring Subcultures, Learning to Feel, and Changing Perception (#388) — Lisa Ling — The Tim Ferris Show Podcast
Automattic’s Sonal Gupta on Communication and Chaos — Distributed Blog Podcast
How Google's Youngest-Ever Hire (Falon Fatemi) Launched an AI Company (Node, Artificial Intuition) Backed by Mark Cuban (Podcast) — How Success Happens Podcast
Fighting Skynet and Firewalling Attention (Ep. #387) —Tristan Harris —The Tim Ferris Show Podcast
Dandapani on Mastering the Mind, Studying in Monastery, and the Art of Focus as wells as how we are really good at ... Practicing Distraction ... —The Elevate Podcast
How to master the seven-step problem-solving process — The McKinsey Podcast
AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks — As AI gets better at performing routine tasks traditionally done by humans, only stressful ones will be left. The work experience could suffer—The Atlantic
What I Learned From Losing $200 Million — The 2008 financial crisis taught me about the illusion of control, and how to give it up — Bob Henderson, Nautilus
Kill the Company: Identify Your Weaknesses Before Your Competitors Do —Knowledge@Wharton Podcast
First Impressions Matter for Groups, Too — Labeling something or someone as “first” can have a dramatic effect on our perceptions of those who follow — Kellogg Insight
Behavioural Science: Rethinking Segmentation, Reinventing Consumer Research SGInnovate & Ogilvy
C'est étonnant de se reconnecter avec son corps quand on a vécu des années avec un cerveau (podcast) — Anaïs Vanel,Tout quitter
The Four Tools of discipline — Farnam Street
Here's Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Company Culture — Robert Glazer
What you create internally is something that no one can take away from you. It is something of which you have an infinite supply, Constance Wu — Unmistakable Creative
Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research —The New York Times
Psychological resistance against online misinformation — University of Cambridge
When Women Are on Boards, Male CEOs Are Less Overconfident — Harvard Business Review
The Complicated Relationship Between Women and Finances — The Allianz Life Women, Money, and Power Study — Kiplinger
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness — Farnam Street
You're doing better than you think. Here's why — Ozan Varol
The quality of the answers we get are directly correlated with the quality of the questions we ask. Here’s how to improve your questions — Farnam Street
Sex educator and author Dr. Emily Nagoski demystifies the science of sexuality and shows us how to shed our insecurities, connect more closely with our partner, and define pleasure on our own terms —The Knowledge Project Episode #66 — Farnam Street
Quotes I am pondering
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner — Lao Tzu
Be regular and orderly in your life . . . so that you may be violent and original in your work — Gustave Flaubert
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal — Paulo Coelho
Where awareness goes, energy flows — Dandapani
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past ― Virginia Woolf
We live in a culture that teaches us to promote and advertise ourselves and to master the skills required for success, but that gives little encouragement to humility, sympathy, and honest self-confrontation, which are necessary for building character —David Brooks, The Road to Character
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit ― Dorothy Height
Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination ― Astrid Lindgren
Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived by comparison ― Rosamund & Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work ― Wanda Landowska
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world ― Anne Frank
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it ― Confucius
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us ― Helen Keller
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