In times of crisis, much gets written about the importance of leaders not “losing their heads.” But, while remaining calm is a pre-requisite of almost all good decision-making, it is only a means to an end.

Lateral thinking—a term first coined by Edward de Bono in 1967—refers to a person’s capacity to address problems by imagining solutions that cannot be arrived at via deductive or logical means. Or, to put it in simpler terms: the ability to develop original answers to difficult questions. This is the essence of creativity, and all organizations benefit from it at times of change—when, by definition, traditional solutions are unlikely to get the desired result.

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To regard lateral thinking as the preserve of certain parts of a business—marketing, for example—is tempting. Tempting—and wrong. Take finance. “Very rarely have I seen fresh approaches to fundraising being considered as part of business continuity planning,” says Adam Tilson of Alternative Finance, a specialist in helping organizations raise capital. “But the process is not difficult or necessarily expensive, and there are many opportunities to think outside the box and solve problems.” The key, Tilson suggests, is to not let received wisdom stand in the way—and to find sources of support who are also prepared to innovate. In doing so, leaders “are often able to access radically different solutions and much more flexibility than they might at first believe,” he says.

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People management is another area where lateral thinking can bear huge dividends, despite the reputation of HR as highly process-oriented. “The questions that we should be asking in HR are those such as: how do we build talent pools for the future?” says David Reay , senior VP of HR at Sony Music Worldwide. “And how do we help people learn quickly and well, by harnessing the power of digital?” He believes that the answers to such questions require not just logical but creative thought. “And they remain the key questions for HR, regardless of might be happening in the outside world.”

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The critical point is this: it does not matter a jot what you do or where you work. Everyone has it in them to add transformational value through lateral thinking—even, or especially, in times of change or crisis.

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And it’s an increasingly in-demand skill. Ashleigh Otter, chief of staff at online library Perlego, agrees. “The ability to problem solve and think critically is one of the main attributes we look for when hiring,” she says. “In a world that is constantly changing, we need to be able to adapt and look beyond what is our default.”

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So, how do you think laterally when the world around you is in a blind panic? Here are four techniques that will help, whatever organization or situation you find yourself in.

“What would Bruce Lee do?” might not be the most conventional start to a conversation about strategy, but it might help you shake up your thinking.

A transitional object is someone or something embodying certain characteristics or qualities that you can use as inspiration for new ideas. (Whether or not the person or thing concerned actually does embody those qualities in real life is irrelevant. Perception is reality.)

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Transitional objects can be people or things that you like or admire—or the opposite. The point here is that they embody a set of qualities that do not exist in your organization (or life) today. To continue with the above example, Bruce Lee taught the importance of working with—rather than against—the energy of your attacker. How might this inform your strategy?

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Asking “what’s the one thing we absolutely should not do in this situation?” is an irreverent question that can challenge conventional thinking about what is an advisable course of action.

Faced with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the Swedish clothing manufacturer Asket did precisely the wrong thing on paper: it suspended all sales on those days and instead sold only clothing protection products. But in doing so, it strongly reinforced its brand message about sustainable consumption and the importance of buying well—and earned additional respect from its environmentally-conscious customer base.

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Bear in mind that, when innovating, it can be way easier to go way out and wind back than to try solving problems by iterating from a conservative start point. Even if the answer to this counterintuitive question is, in reality, completely the wrong thing to do, it can pave the way to new thinking about what’s right.

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Most strategies and tactics are additive—they often involve doing more things in ever-shorter timescales, diluting impact and burning people out.

Asking “what would happen if we stopped doing—or asked others to stop doing—the following?” can stimulate new thinking about your customer experience, employee experience or even overall strategy. Doing so will also challenge your organization’s received wisdom about resource deployment, which can be beneficial when trading is tough.

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Bear in mind that Twitter—a business that can stake a reasonable claim to having changed the world—was invented not by adding but subtracting. In that case, the element that was taken away was the permission to use more than 140 characters when blogging.

According to the author Christopher Booker, all narratives orient around a very small number of basic, archetypal plots that human beings are pre-programmed to understand:

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Voyage and return
Rebirth
Comedy
Tragedy
Overcoming the monster
Rags to riches

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This is not just a matter for fiction writers. Consider which plot currently underpins your business or project. Now pick another one—and rewrite the future. For example, are you a running a plucky scale-up that is “overcoming the monster” in your category? What would happen if, instead, you attempted to “rebirth” your marketplace or customer offering? Might that change, for example, your appetite for finance?

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In times of crisis, the plot that many leaders unconsciously follow is “tragedy”. Try reframing your struggles as “voyage and return,” say—and you might be surprised at both the emotional and strategic shifts that this particular exercise in lateral thinking helps you to achieve.

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If the first week of May 2005 will be remembered for a general election, the second will go down as the week of Sudoku.

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National newspapers scrambled to advertise the puzzle on their front pages, while websites devoted to it sprang up and TV and radio stations caught the new global bug.

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Numerous articles have attributed the puzzle, which has a Japanese name, to the mysteries of the Land of the Rising Sun. But its true modern origins lie with a team of puzzle constructors in 1970s' New York, from where it set off on a 25-year journey to Tokyo, London - and back to New York.

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Scientists have identified Sudoku as a classic meme - a mental virus which spreads from person to person and sweeps across national boundaries. Dr Susan Blackmore, author of The Meme Machine, said: 'This puzzle is a fantastic study in memetics. It is using our brains to propagate itself across the world like an infectious virus.'

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Sudoku - pronounced soo-doe-koo - does not require general knowledge, linguistic ability or even mathematical skill. Dubbed the Rubik's Cube of the 21st century, it consists of a grid of 81 squares, divided into nine blocks of nine squares each. Some of the squares contain a figure. The goal is to fill in the empty squares so that the figures 1 to 9 appear just once in every row, column and individual block. The requirement is logic or, for those willing to engage in a fiendish game of trial and error, sheer patience.

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The Sudoku story began in 1783 when Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician, devised 'Latin Squares', which he described as 'a new kind of magic squares'. Euler had come up with a grid in which every number or sym bol appears once in each row or column. More than two centuries later, the difference for Sudoku players is that the grid is subdivided into blocks of nine.

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The realisation that this could become a popular phenomenon was made in Manhattan, New York in the late 1970s by Dell Puzzle Magazines, which has been producing crosswords and other puzzles since 1931. Its editor-in-chief, Abby Taylor, who joined in 1980, said: 'No one knows exactly when it started or who devised it, but the oldest copy I can find in our archive is 1979. We called the puzzle Number Place and still do today.'

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For years Dell continued to publish Number Place among numerous other brain teasers. Taylor said: 'It was only about five or six years ago that we got a lot more mail from people who said they enjoyed it. We decided to feature it more and produced a complete book of Number Place puzzles. But we didn't suspect it would become a global phenomenon.'

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She added: 'I like the puzzle a lot. It's accessible to most people and that's part of the charm. Although some are more difficult than others, the concept is easy to grasp and it doesn't take for ever to solve. There is a universality to it and it becomes addictive.'

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As Dell continued to quietly churn out Number Place through the Eighties, it was spotted, imitated and embraced in puzzle-obsessed Japan. Publisher Nikoli made two small improvements to the concept and renamed it Sudoku - in Japanese Su means a number and doku roughly translates as singular or unique. From its publication in 1984, it became a sensation in a country where the alphabet is ill-suited to crosswords.

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The new Sudoku meme remained virtually confined to the Far East for 20 years. But a man from Matamata, New Zealand, was to become responsible for a global outbreak. Wayne Gould, a judge who had moved to Hong Kong, was shopping in Tokyo in March 1997. While he waited for one shop to open, he browsed in a bookstore. 'As soon as I saw the grid with the empty squares, I felt very tempted to fill them in. Over the next six years I developed a computer program that makes up Sudoku puzzles on the spot.'

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Gould's wife, Gaye, is a professor of linguistics in New Hampshire in the United States. Gould published one of his puzzles in the local newspaper, the Conway Daily Sun, with success. Then last October Sudoku spread to Britain. 'I was on my way to Hong Kong via London,' Gould, 59, recalled. 'I turned up unannounced at the Times, like an old-fashioned travelling salesman, and got my foot in the door. They published the puzzle the following month and it took off.

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'This is light relief and anybody, including immigrants who don't speak the native language, can do it. I have become good but my wife is much better and does them in about half the time. I'm surprised and amazed at how popular it has become and I can't really explain it.'

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Gould sells puzzles via his website, www.sudoku.com , and has customers ranging from seven-year-olds to octogenarians.

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Newspapers have been quick to hurl themselves into the Sudoku frenzy, some claiming they had it first under a different name. On Friday the Guardian front page declared 'G2 - The only newspaper section with Sudoku on every page!' and the Times promised: 'Mobile Su Doku; The game everyone's talking about - now on your mobile phone'. Yesterday's Independent dangled the prospect of becoming a 'Grand Master' in the first Sudoku Championship of Great Britain, and BBC Radio 4's Today read numbers aloud in the first radio version.

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Sudoku Selection, the first monthly magazine devoted to the craze, was launched last week, and several Sudoku books are on the market. Celebrities ranging from the cerebral Carol Vorderman to Big Brother 's Jade Goody have testified to its benefits as a mental workout. The government-backed Teachers magazine has recommended Sudoku as brain exercise in classrooms. It has even been suggested that it can slow the progression of conditions such as Alzheimer's.

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Sudoku has sprung up in newspapers from France to Slovakia, while a card game is sweeping American high schools. Last month the puzzle completed its circumnavigation of the globe by arriving back in Manhattan as a regular feature in the New York Post. Abby Taylor of Dell mused: 'We were a little surprised to see it in the Post. I suppose if people see it there, they might want a whole book of them, and that's where we come in. We're not selling millions yet.'

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Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here .

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We all want things to just be normal again.

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But in this year-that-will-not-end, life has felt like some sort of gypsy curse. A quantum superposition of malaise. The spring was all of us just standing around slack-jawed, wondering what the universe had planned as a third act for this prank show we call “Nowadays.”

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And currently we’re still a herd-and-a-half away from herd immunity, understandably restricted from many things like socializing which we count on for happiness. We’re frazzled, there’s a low hum of anxiety underneath everything we do, and we can’t even go to Olive Garden.

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Luckily, we are starting to acclimate, accepting it all as just another episode of the COVID-19 Variety Hour. Problem is, many of us are not acclimating in a good way. Our positive daily routines are screwed up and COVID is throwing Miracle-Gro on our bad habits. Doomscrolling online, endless TV binges, aimless web surfing or far, far worse things are replacing constructive activities that promote true joy and productivity.

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I’d argue that the limitations of COVID and lockdown are mimicking depression: we engage in fewer rewarding activities, ruminate on stresses we can do nothing about, we don’t see friends as frequently, and often unconsciously replace good habits with short-term soothing behaviors that keep us stuck in a rut. Now it’s not actual clinical depression — filled with more melancholy than a Lana Del Rey breakup — but our current limitations mimic characteristics of depression, and we’re all feeling the effects. It’s like having your soul deep fried.

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In one way or another many of us are unconsciously hitting the “pause” button on the remote, trying to wait this out until “real life” starts again. Sorry, but we cannot take a mulligan on 2020. We need to be safe and keep others safe but we cannot act like this life is not real life. (Your gym might give you credit for missed months during the pandemic but life won’t.)

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So what’s the best way to proceed, given the current could-not-be-further-from-ideal situation? It’s called “Behavioral Activation Therapy.” (Yes, the acronym for the solution to our COVID-induced unhappiness is “BAT.” I know what you’re thinking. Don’t say it. Bat jokes stopped being cool in April.)

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The gist of Behavioral Activation Therapy is we gotta do happy to feel happy . Often, we wait until we feel right to do what’s right. Nope, BAT says it’s the complete opposite. Instead of our mood changing what we do, we need to change what we do to fix our mood. This may not sound like the “lazy” way to an awesome life but changing your feelings directly can seem impossible when the world has gone inferno. Altering how we act is easier.

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And BAT is legit. In head-to-head studies it matched CBT-style strategies (the most battle-tested system out there) and was even as effective as meds.

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The acute outcomes of patients who received BA were comparable to those who received antidepressant medication, even among more severely depressed patients. Patients assigned to BA tended to stay in treatment longer than those assigned to pharmacotherapy. BA was also superior to CT in the acute treatment of more severely depressed patients. There were no differences among treatments for the less severely depressed patients.

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The book we’ll be getting the skinny on is Behavioral Activation for Depression . It’s a manual for therapists but it’s solid for us (at least as good as the many texts on ADD I haven’t finished).

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Maybe you’re not feeling the pandemic pinch as bad as others. Good for you. But BAT isn’t just a Hail Mary pass against our COVID-induced pseudo-depression; it’s actually a path to a better life for all of us, all the time.

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Let’s get to it…

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The first principle of BAT is “The key to changing how people feel is helping them change what they do.”

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BA is a brief structured treatment for depression that aims to activate clients in specific ways that will increase rewarding experiences in their lives. All of the techniques of BA are used in the service of the fundamental goal of increasing activation and engagement in one’s world. Toward this end, BA also focuses on processes that inhibit activation, such as escape and avoidance behaviors. BA is based on the premise that problems in vulnerable individuals’ lives reduce their ability to experience positive reward from their environments, leading to the symptoms and behaviors that we classify as depression.

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Psychologists like to say that in cognitive therapy “the head teaches the hands.” You rationally work through your issues to change problematic behaviors. But in BAT, it’s the reverse: the hands teach the head. Engage in the right activities and good feelings will follow. So instead of asking for a new brain for Christmas, we need to think “outside-in.”

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Now the critical peanut gallery will oversimplify this: “Oh, he’s just saying you just need to do more fun stuff. That’s all.” And they’re as entitled to their wrong opinion as anyone else. “Just do fun things” is definitely a pithy summary and it’s also fantastically unhelpful. It’s the equivalent of baseball advice like, “Just take the bat and hit the ball.” Totally true but I won’t be seeing you in the major leagues anytime soon. (Look, I don’t write thousands of words here to explain something that could be summarized in a sentence; that’s what business books are for.) Ever say “Wow, that felt good, why don’t I do that more often?” or “God, why do I do this? I’m always miserable the next day?” That’s the issue we’re talking about.

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In real clinical depression people feel punished by life, so they do fewer things. This reduces pain but it also reduces the good things that lift us up. It’s like getting food poisoning so you decide you’ll make sure that doesn’t happen again by eating nothing at all. Not a good solution. We need positive reinforcement from the things we do. Activities that produce emotional compound interest in life.

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The great psychologist Marsha Linehan once said that “emotions love themselves.” They perpetuate themselves. Moods create momentum. That’s why we often wait around for good ones to drive us toward positive behavior. Problem is, the current negative mood does just the opposite and then we end up worse off or at least saying, “Where did the day go?” Waiting for emotions to make things better during COVID is like asking pyromaniacs to put out the fire.

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What often happens for people, however, is that they respond to these primary problems with behaviors that keep them stuck. As an individual stops engaging in activities that were once pleasurable, engages in escape or avoidance behaviors, or responds mostly to behaviors that bring immediate relief from annoyance despite future adverse consequences, such actions become secondary problems in and of themselves… Such avoidance provides short-term relief but maintains depression over the long term, both because rewards are not experienced and because stressors in life become worse over time.

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As Winston Churchill once said, “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” We can’t wait until we feel better to act. We need to act now to break the cycle of our feelings. This is how we bootstrap happiness.

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(To learn more about how you can lead a successful life, check out my bestselling book here .)

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The problem we often run into is picking good behaviors when that rationalization engine we call a brain is consumed with stress. Exercise is good and heroin is bad but in the middle there it can get kinda gray. So what’s the litmus test?

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Marie Kondo says the key to tidying up is asking if something sparks joy. Toss what doesn’t, keep what does. Marie and I aren’t fully on the same page but it’s a good start. So think of me as a much larger Marie Kondo with a much deeper voice. We’re gonna evaluate our activities by pleasure and mastery.

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“Pleasure” is vital but we want the kind that is a life-net-positive and not an emotional payday loan with a 3500% interest rate that leaves you even more stressed than you were yesterday. We’re looking for that deeper satisfaction we get from truly meaningful, noble activities like relationships, exercise, and reading Eric’s book .

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And “Mastery” doesn’t just mean painting Picassos or conquering Central Asia. Think of it as a feeling of accomplishment. Yes, cleaning out the garage sucks but afterward you get the satisfaction that you actually achieved something and gained 10 points toward your Adulting merit badge.

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Work can be fulfilling but, sadly, many are unemployed right now. But work’s not the only source of mastery. As research by Harvard professor Teresa Amabile has shown, progress in goals that are meaningful to you is incredibly satisfying and motivating, whether it pays the bills or not. (If you want to see coffee come out of my nose, ask me if I write these long blog posts “for the money.”)

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And we need to balance the two. Working hard for a while is good. And all-out leisure time is important too. Research shows the latter promotes coping, and good god we all have some stuff to cope with right now.

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Leisure activities in particular have been shown to lead to well-being in adolescents, adults, and the elderly by increasing coping abilities in the face of life stressors, including daily hassles (Caldwell, 2005).

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Short-attention-span-critical-peanut-gallery says: “Okay, I’ll do the stuff that brings pleasure and mastery. Good. Done.” No. Bad. Stop. Go no further. We are often terrible at choosing what makes us feel long-term happy and productive.

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Yes, I’m about to give you homework. Sorry. As you go about your day, rate your activities on a 1 to 10 scale in terms of pleasure or mastery. This isn’t hard. C’mon, you know being judgy is fun. It’s “Hot or Not” for activities. Use the notes app on your smartphone.

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Got some rankings? Good. Now do pattern detection. What scores high? (Calling friends?) What scores low? (Reading the news?) What leads to even more good things? (Starting the day right?) What makes everything go to hell in a hurry? (Reading even more news?)

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You want to find those naturally reinforcing behaviors that keep you on the right track. And when you have to do stuff you don’t love so much, you want to see what aspects you can tweak to make them more pleasurable or more masterful to keep the emotional momentum going.

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And ask those around you for insight. As Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling once said, “The one thing a person cannot do, however brilliant they are, is write up a list of things that would never occur to them.” The people around you may know what affects you better than you do because, ummm… they often have to deal with the consequences.

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Knowing the mistakes you usually make is the pro-est of protips in life. You want to start developing a “Rulebook of You” that can guide your behavior to happiness and fulfillment.

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(To learn the two-word morning ritual that will make you happy all day, click here .)

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Knowing what works for you and what doesn’t is a game changer. But all positive things are not created equal. You need to know your priorities. And the ratio of pleasure to mastery that works for you. And how to deal with the problem of competing goals…

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What do you want out of life? What’s important to you? If I asked you that 5 minutes ago your mind would go totally blank. But now you have a list with hints. A cheat sheet to your life. Use it.

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Values cannot be completed, only routinely honored. Goals, on the other hand, can be achieved. Values are ongoing. (“Staying in shape.”) Goals can be completed. (“Go running today.”) So you want to regularly translate values into goals and occasionally check in with your values to make sure you’re on track. You overcome conflicting goals by prioritizing your values. If friends are more important than rest, you stay up late talking to a friend who is dealing with problems.

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Look at your rated list of activities and ask, “What are my values and how do I translate them into specific goals?” A lot of this work is probably already done but you want to expand or tweak your goals based on what you now know works for you.

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And what makes a good goal? They should be challenging but do-able. Make them specific and measurable. Don’t define them by a negative (“watch less TV”), instead find replacements. Start small and be realistic. Work from where you are at (jogging one mile), not where you think you “should” be (running a marathon after 4 months of a couch-centric life.)

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And focus on the activities and goals that provide that all-powerful positive reinforcement. Am I feeling better about myself long-term after I do this? Am I doing things I will look back on and be proud of? You want things that reward you and make you want to keep doing them.

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Yes, like Pavlov. You are now Pavlov. (Note: you’re also Pavlov’s dog.)

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(To learn more about how to make friends as an adult, click here .)

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Okay, we got the big picture stuff of values and goals down. Now we have to get granular. And we have to obey…

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We have calendars all backward. We use them to schedule errands, appointments and relatively unimportant stuff while leaving joy and accomplishment subject to fate. Wrong. Schedule what’s important. Schedule your pleasure and mastery. Yes, happiness lives in your calendar.

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Tolstoy once said, “Life consists of penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.” So turn your happy-productivity list and your new goals that embody your values into a schedule .

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When we choose in the moment, we often choose badly, especially in moody, stressful times like the COVID now. Remember: emotions love themselves. Don’t rely on just “knowing” what you need to do. Knowing and doing are not next-door neighbors. I don’t even think they have each other’s email address. So schedule the things that matter. Specific times, specific places, specific durations. The more specific and concrete a goal is, the more likely you are to do it.

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BA therapists encourage people to begin acting from the “outside-in.” We ask people to experiment with acting according to a goal, as opposed to acting according to a mood. Engaging in activities that once brought pleasure or a sense of accomplishment or that solve problems can improve mood and reduce life stressors over time. A core part of BA is to begin to act, even when mood and motivation are low, rather than waiting for one’s mood to improve prior to getting engaged. Throughout BA some form of activity structuring and scheduling is used to support acting from the outside-in. These strategies can be accomplished by creating detailed schedules with tasks broken down into components and assigned at specific times and places.

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Going forward, note the results of your actions. Keep scoring and revising. Consider your values. With time, expand goals and push the envelope, like raising the weight at the gym. Get the cycle of positive reinforcement working for you.

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Some will kneejerk resist scheduling their free time as a threat to their autonomy. That makes about as much sense as Medusa checking her makeup. You came up with the rules. You’re telling you what to do. It’s only a threat to unpredictable moods and whims. And you love following rules — just not consciously. They’re called habits. It’s when your conscious mind gets on its soapbox that this becomes a problem.

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Freedom? There’s no such thing. As Bob Dylan crooned, “Gotta serve somebody.” Better that somebody be your long-term goals than your whims – or, even worse, someone else’s. Freedom comes from discipline; otherwise you are only free to do what your moods demand. You now know what really works for you. You measured it. Now leverage the lessons learned from your “Rulebook of You.” Tell yourself what to do and then do as you’re told.

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Don’t fight yourself. Outsmart yourself.

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(To learn the 4 harsh truths that will make you a better person, click here .)

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Okay, we’ve covered a lot. Time to round it up and learn how to take this to the next level – the fun and lazy way…

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This is the lazy way to an awesome life:

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Think outside-in : Remember “The key to changing how people feel is helping them change what they do.”
Let pleasure and mastery guide you : Do the Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew detective work to figure out what scores a 10 for fulfillment and accomplishment and let that be your map.
Know your values and goals : Honor your values by setting specific goals that provide positive reinforcement. You are Pavlov’s adorable puppy as much as you are Pavlov.
Follow your plan, not your mood : Tell yourself what to do and then do as you’re told. “Knowing yourself” is good; outsmarting yourself is better.

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So how do we take this to the next level? By involving the things many of us are currently missing the most: those we care about. Your values should involve others. One of your goals can be helping others. Even if everybody you care about can’t be with you physically, they can still be a part of this. Involving others in your quest for a better life is criminally underrated.

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In honor of our current enemy, the virus, we should take a lesson from epidemiology. We’re all eagerly awaiting a vaccine. And when epidemiologists are trying to crush an outbreak, they don’t just run around vaccinating randomly.

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They create “rings” of vaccination around those harmed by the pathogen.

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As smallpox was nearing eradication in the 1970s, epidemiologists used ‘ring vaccination’ to stamp out the final few sparks of infection. When a new disease case appeared, teams would track down people the infected may have come into contact with, such as family members and neighbours, as well as these people’s contacts. They would then vaccinate people within this ‘ring’, preventing the smallpox virus spreading any further.

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We protect and support those around us in times of need. And this is how we prevent any pathogen — virus or unhappiness — from spreading.

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Seek joy and accomplishment in your activities. And build a protective, happy circle of those you love.

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...because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

It will try to make almost any routine into a habit, because habits allow our minds to ramp down more often. This effort-saving instinct is a huge advantage.

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First, there is a cue, a trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and which habit to use.
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It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit, unless you find new routines, the pattern will unfold automatically.

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A habit cannot be eradicated—it must, instead, be replaced. And if we keep the same cue and the same reward, a new routine can be inserted.

But that’s not enough. For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible. And most often, that belief only emerges with the help of a group.

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Time. A typical career will take up somewhere between 20% and 60% of your meaningful adult time.

Quality of Life. Your career has a major effect on all your non-career hours.

Impact. Whatever shape your career path ends up taking, the world will be altered by it.

Identity. We tell people about our careers by telling them what we are.

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List careers you want/find desirable.
List all careers that are realistic to potentially achieve.
Find the overlapping areas between what is desirable, and what is possible.

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Personal. The human need for fulfilment.
Social. Diverse social desires that want to be relevant, important, widely known, accepted, well-liked and agreeable.
Lifestyle. The desire to have a stress-free life.
Moral. The desire to do something philanthropic, or to display altruistic behaviour.
Practical. The desire to look after your practical needs, like food, clothing, housing.

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Play the Why Game: Why is this something I want?
Look at your Denial Prison: Uncovering your authentic wants that are repressed.
Priority Rankings: Almost as important as the wants themselves is the priority they’re given.

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Broad landscape.

The landscape today is made up of thousands of options and the way things work today, if there’s an option you want that’s not already out there, you can probably create it for yourself.

Specific Career Path.

A career path is like a game board. The conventional wisdom bookshelf contains instruction booklets for only a small fraction of today’s available game boards—and those that it does have usually tell you how that game was played in the past, even though the current game board has evolved significantly into something with new kinds of opportunities and different rules and loopholes.

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When assessing your chances on a certain career path, the key question is:

With enough time, could you get good enough at this game to potentially reach whatever your definition of success is in that career?

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After considering

The general landscape
Specific careers
Where your Starting point is (based on your current skills, resources, and connections relevant to that field)
Your Success point/End point
Your estimate of your pace of improvement
Your level of persistence

you are able to plot your career path forward.

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...is an increasingly popular eating pattern that involves not eating or sharply restricting your food intake for certain periods of time. It may boost your health. However, fasting can be dangerous if not done properly.

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The 5:2 Pattern: restrict your calorie intake for two days per week (500 calories per day for women and 600 for men).
The 6:1 Pattern: similar to the 5:2, but there’s only one day of reduced calorie intake instead of two.
“Eat Stop Eat”: a 24-hour complete fast, 1–2 times per week.
The 16:8 Pattern: only consuming food in an eight-hour window and fasting for 16 hours a day, every day of the week.

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Longer periods of fasting increase your risk of side effects, such as dehydration, dizziness, and fainting.

The best way to avoid these side effects is to stick to shorter fasting periods of up to 24 hours — especially when you’re just starting out.

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Eating a small amount on fast days rather than cutting out all food may reduce your risk of side effects and help keep hunger at bay.

If you want to try fasting, restricting your calories so that you still eat small amounts on your fast days may be a safer option than doing a full-blown fast.

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Mild dehydration can result in fatigue, dry mouth, thirst and headaches — so it’s vital to drink enough fluid on a fast.

During a fast, many people aim to drink 8.5–13 cups (2–3 liters) of water over the course of the day. However, your thirst should tell you when you need to drink more, so listen to your body.

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...such as walking or meditating, may make your fast days easier.

Avoiding eating on fast days can be difficult, especially if you are feeling bored and hungry. One way to avoid unintentionally breaking your fast is to keep busy.

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You may feel a little tired or irritable during your fast, but if you start to feel unwell, you should stop fasting immediately.

Some signs that you should stop your fast and seek medical help include tiredness or weakness that prevents you from carrying out daily tasks, as well as unexpected feelings of sickness and discomfort.

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Eat enough protein: Having enough protein during your fast may help minimize muscle loss and keep your appetite in check.
Eat plenty of whole foods on non-fasting days: This may improve your health and keep you well during a fast.

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If you’re new to fasting, it’s best to keep any exercise to a low intensity — especially at first — so you can see how you manage.

Low-intensity exercises could include walking, mild yoga, gentle stretching, and housework.

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The following shouldn’t attempt to fast without consulting a doctor:

People with a medical condition like heart disease or type 2 diabetes
Women who are trying to conceive
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
People who are underweight
Those who have experienced an eating disorder
People who have problems with blood sugar regulation
People with low blood pressure
Those who are taking prescription medications
Woman with a history of amenorrhea
Older adults
Adolescents

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The aging population is causing fewer contributors.
More people are retiring due to increased longevity.
Corporate collapses, such as bankruptcy of Enron negatively affect private pension plans.
Defined pension plans do also fail from time to time.
Many employers shift from defined-benefit to defined-contribution plans.

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Old age typically brings medical problems and increased healthcare expenses.

Living out your retirement years in comfort while also covering your medical expenses may turn out to be a burden too large to bear.

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Without a well-planned retirement nest egg, you may be forced to liquidate your assets in order to cover your expenses during your retirement years.

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Unforeseen illnesses, the financial needs of your dependents, and the uncertainty of Social Security and pension systems are but a few of the factors at play.

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Follow your passions. Without it, any rational person would give up.
Find your noble cause. For Jobs, making computers accessible to the average person wasn't just a business strategy; it was a calling.
Simplify everything and focus on the gems. You have only so much energy and attention to give to projects or projects.
Unleash your creativity. Creativity doesn't just happen. Expose yourself to ideas outside the field you're working in.
Create \"insanely great\" customer experiences. Hire for personality and culture fit first.
Don't introduce products; tell a story.
Sell dreams, not products. Your audiences don't care about your product, company or idea. They care about themselves, their hopes and their dreams.

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Research suggests placing self-imposed limitations can boost creativity.

It forces your brain to come up with creative solutions to finish a project around the parameters you’ve set.

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Instead of thinking of a cut-and-dry end goal to certain situations, creative people sit back and examine the problem in different ways before beginning to work.

If you find yourself stagnating by focusing on generic problems, try to re-conceptualize the problem by focusing on a more meaningful angle.

For example: Instead of thinking “What would be something cool to paint?” rather ask, “What sort of painting evokes the feeling of loneliness that we all encounter after a break-up?”

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Creating “psychological” distance may be useful for breaking through a creative block.

Try to imagine your creative task as being disconnected and distant from your current position/location - this may make the problem more accessible and can encourage higher level thinking.

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Daydreaming and incubation are most effective on a project you’ve already invested a lot of creative effort into.

Incorporating breaks into your work-flow can increase your chance to come up with creative solutions to problems.

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Research suggests that reading/experiencing something absurd or surreal can help boost pattern recognition and creative thinking.

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We are often in two very different states of mind when

absorbing an activity and
when we are trying to create something.

Turn off your “work mode” and consume more inspiration in the form of reading, watching, and observing.

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From a new study (2007) o creativity in the workplace:

Creativity increased when both positive and negative emotions were running high…

Next time you’re in a strong emotional state, try to sit down and focus that energy on creating something.

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Exercise can actually boost creative thinking due to its ability to get the heart pumping and put people in a positive mood.

If you’re stuck in a creative rut and want to take a break, try including exercise.

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Looking at a situation that has already occurred and asking yourself, “What could have happened?” can boost creativity for short periods of time.

According to an analysis by Jeremy Dean:

Analytical problems are best tackled with thinking about what could have been taken away from the situation.
Expansive problems benefited most from thinking about what could have been added to the situation.

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Role mismatch.
Too much/too narrow end-goal restriction.
Strict ration of resources, including insufficient time.
Lack of group diversity produces less creative results.
Discouragement. Too much criticism, endless evaluation and negative comments.
No positive feedback. Praise and positive feedback are essential for creative people, who thrive on having their ideas impact the lives of others.

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The electronic tablet on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Insect-derived foodstuffs on Snowpiercer. Nowadays there are insect-based flour and protein bars.
Smart home devices on the 1999 Disney film Smart House. In the film, a house is run by a robot that can perform most of the functions a digital assistant like Alexa does today.
Personalized adverts on Minority Report. The movie had Billboards that identified the passersby and targeted adverts towards them, much like search engines and some actual billboards do today.
Autonomous cars on Total Recall. The movie had driverless cabs not very different from the ones we have today.
Autonomous military vehicles on Short Circuit. Although we are still far behind on the AI part the rest is already available to the military.
Human-looking androids on Metropolis.
Video conferencing/calling on Aliens or Bladerunner.
Mobile phones/Smartwatches on Star Trek.
Wearable technology on Back to the Future Part II. The movie had \"smart eyewear\" that resembles modern head-mounted virtual reality devices

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There are varying degrees of grief (the end of a movie or show is obviously not the same as the death of a person), but many people do experience feelings of loss around different forms of media, such as the ending of a favorite show.

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We are genuinely invested in the outcome of a story and the state of the various characters.

These connections to fictional stories and characters are why many people share their opinions about the plots and characters’ actions. People feel so connected, and in some cases, they feel like they have ownership over something.

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For many people, watching a show regularly can be a form of temporarily checking out of what’s going on in the real world.

It’s a way we detach from our own issues, our own problems. And the thought of giving that up and coming back to our own world is a little frightening for people.

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It becomes a ritual for people. And it's a form of shared collective experience.

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Listen to or read something that inspires you.
Make your body stronger and more resilient.
Review and hone your plans for the future.
Do at least one thing that's worthwhile. Find something to do that makes a difference and improves the world.
Help the less fortunate. Do it anonymously, if possible.
Spend 20 seconds appreciating what you have. I
Record at least one good memory about the day at it’s end.

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It gives you the ability to notice subtle cues during conversations, job interviews, presentations, and anywhere else so you can react to situations more tactfully.

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Learn how to notice small details.

It's not a superhuman ability. It's important to note when talking about Holmes that he has spent a lifetime cultivating the habits of mindfulness. So it's not like he was just born with this ability to be in touch with the world. What we choose to notice or not notice is a way of framing it in our own mind. We have a lot of bad habits in our mind, and we have to retrain ourselves to really notice the world. Everything we do rewires the brain, but we can rewire it in a way that mindfulness eventually becomes less of an effort. -- Konnikova

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Give yourself monthly or daily challenges to form a new habit of observation.

Ideas could include trying new foods weekly and writing about them, noticing the color of a co-worker's shirt every day, or even just looking at a new piece of art closely once a day.

The idea is to gradually teach yourself to notice small details in your environment and daily life.

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If you're really struggling to pay attention and personal challenges aren't working, try field notes: writing descriptions and drawing pictures of what you see.

If you're at work, dedicate 10 minutes to observing one person's behavior. Jot it down on paper.

This will help you to start paying attention to the tiny details.

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Meditation is all about teaching yourself focus.

There's this whole area of mindfulness training that teaches you to pay attention to yourself and what's going through your head more. ... just taking a couple minutes at your desk. -- Konnikova

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Critical thinking is analyzing what you observe closely, and deduction is coming up with a conclusion based on those facts.

When you're asking a lot of questions, you're thinking critically, and that improves your skills at deduction in general.

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It's not necessarily that Holmes remembers more, but that he can see connections that people usually miss. People think Holmes is this paragon of logic, but that logic is innately imaginative at its core. He doesn't think linearly, he engages his entire network of possible connections.

The more connections you make, and the more often you think critically, the better you're going to get at making deductions

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It's rarely worth it to condense your knowledge into a specialty.

You should be broad in your knowledge. Holmes says that you should have a clean \"brain attic,\" but he's also a walking encyclopedia of knowledge. He reads incredibly broadly—he reads about art, music—things that you would think have no bearing on his detective work. I think that's an important lesson that we can take. It's bad to overspecialize, and we should try to remain as curious about all the different types of things you want to learn. -- Konnikova

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A lot of people complain that they feel stuck in their careers: they feel they're working hard, but they don't seem to move forward in life.

This feeling of being stuck has to do with a small distinction people rarely make when pursuing professional advancement: the difference between knowledge and meta-knowledge.

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Doing well in your career requires there factors:

Being capable of doing your work well. This requires knowledge: For example, if you’re a lawyer, you need to have a rich knowledge of the law.
Meta-knowledge, or knowledge about how your career works. For example, knowing which skills matter and how to best demonstrate your talent in your particular industry.

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The main route to meta-knowledge is by doing research. And it involves studying people, more than books or in a particular school.

But avoid simply asking people for advice. When you ask for advice, you’ll often get vague, unhelpful answers. Instead, you need to observe what the people that are successful in your field are doing.

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Research findings conclude that regular mindfulness meditation reduces stress and builds resilience.

Yet, those who practice contemporary mindfulness find, instead of engaging in careful thought about oneself, that they are encouraged to be nonjudgemental of your thoughts - to disregard the content or your own thoughts. Mindfulness oversimplifies the complexity of understanding oneself.

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Mindfulness does not demonstrate the truth of key Buddhist doctrines. The nonjudgmental aspects are at odds with Buddhist meditation, where people are supposed to actively evaluate and engage with their experiences.
The goals of mindfulness attempt to reduce suffering, but Buddhism aims to escape the miserable cycle of rebirth altogether.
Mindfulness has moved from therapy to commodification, and a corrupted version results from it.

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Mindfulness is grounded in the Buddhist doctrine. It is a metaphysical denial of the self - there is no soul, spirit or any ongoing individual basis for identity. There is no 'self' or 'me', and consequently, no thoughts that are 'mine'.se

Western metaphysics holds that there is some entity to whom all these experiences are happening. We refer to this entity as 'I' or 'me'.

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Contemporary mindfulness stresses the qualities of impermanence and impersonality (no real self). Thoughts are encouraged to 'arise and cease', or to 'drift away in the sky'. We are encouraged to detach ourselves from our own experience with mantras like, 'you are not your pain.'

Mindfulness thus disconnects us from our thoughts and feelings and makes it harder to understand why we think and feel the way we do.

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Mindfulness can be useful to gain some distance from your own experiences from time to time. But as a whole, it sets aside personal responsibility and disregards the conditions that gave rise to the distress in the first place.

To find out why you think and feel the way you do, you need to see yourself as a distinct individual. You need to carefully examine your thoughts, feelings and the specific context in which they arose.

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Attachment theory is an area of psychology that describes the nature of emotional attachment between people, starting with your parents. The quality of how well you were cared for will then influence the nature of your relationships later in life.

There are four attachment strategies: secure, anxious, avoidant, and anxious-avoidant.

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People with this style are comfortable showing interest and affection.
They are comfortable being alone and independent.
They can correctly prioritize their relationships.
They are able to draw clear boundaries and stick with them.

50% of the population is secure attachment types.

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They are often nervous and stressed about their relationships.
They need constant reassurance and affection from their partners.
They have trouble being alone or single.
They are often in unhealthy or abusive relationships.
They have trouble trusting people.
Their behavior can be irrational and overly emotional.

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They are highly independent.
They are self-directed.
They are uncomfortable with intimacy.
They complain of not enough personal space when people try to get close to them.
They have an exit strategy in every relationship.

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They are also known as the \"fearful type.\"
They are afraid of intimacy and commitment, and they are distrustful.
They spend much of their time alone and miserable, or in dysfunctional relationships.
They often suffer from emotional problems in other areas of their life.

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Our attachment styles are influenced by how we related to our parents as infants and set the pattern for how we perceive relationships as we mature.

As we get older, we continue to build on this pattern when we form relationships with our peers and other people.

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Different attachment types tend to configure themselves into relationships in predictable ways.

Secure types can handle both anxious and avoidant types in a relationship.
Anxious and avoidants regularly end up in relationships with one another and less frequent with their own types.
Anxious-avoidants only date each other or the least secure of the anxious types or avoidant types. These relationships are often very messy.

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Your attachment style can change over time to a more secure style or an insecure style if they're not careful.

An extreme negative event, such as divorce, death of a dear one, a serious accident, etc. can cause a secure attachment type to move into a more insecure attachment type.

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Anxious types can work on developing themselves, creating healthy boundaries and fostering a healthy self-image.

Avoidant types can work on opening themselves up to others and share more about themselves.

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Most people never make a conscious decision about their careers and end up at a certain place, due to external factors and present opportunities. Their career path wasn't carved out or planned.

Creating your career is something that most people don't think of at an early stage when they are not sure about themselves and the world around them.

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Here are Five Steps that can create your career:

1. Analyzing yourself.

2. Identify your industry

3. Improve your basic, universal skills

4. Start from Scratch

5. Continuous Self-Development

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When you analyze yourself, instead of pondering over what you are not good at, find out your strengths and sharpen them, turning a good skill into excellence.

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Pursue a career at a place that fits your strengths and makes you shine.

Do what you love and you will see that even a hobby can turn into a career.

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Just knowing your job is not enough, you also need some universal skills like:

Leadership
Good writing ability
Personal effectiveness
Persuasion

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Be patient and start from the bottom; avoid going for quick fixes and unrealistic expectations, and keep learning as you go up the right way.

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Successful people keep learning and developing themselves. This way they are never stuck in a dead-end job, or in their own comfort zone.

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Generating ideas is the process of finding new connections between old ideas.

We have to be able to connect the dots, cross-pollinate ideas from various disciplines, and combine and recombine them to create new ideas.

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\"Someone asked me where I get all my good ideas, explaining that it takes him a month or two to come up with one and I seem to have more than that. I asked him how many bad ideas he has every month. He paused and said, 'None.'\"

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Create a safe place, free from criticism, because we tend to clam up if we feel like we're going to be criticized.

Rather than criticizing what you don't like, focus on getting ideas out in the open so you can build on them.

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"You've got to be free to say any dumb thing, because a lot of times when you say something stupid, a good idea arises from it."

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The most successful ideas will be related to your own particular observations on your needs, or what you see is missing in the world.

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If you have a stack of ideas, you have to be ruthless about which ones you choose to pursue.

Give time for the ideas to settle. You'll find you are much less excited about some of the ideas you've written down. During the process of pursuing an idea, someone will have to be personally convicted of the idea and want to fight for it.

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You're inevitably going to have to say 'no' to some of the ideas you want to execute. Give your ideas room to breathe before you assess them.

Look at your ideas objectively.
Choose the ones that have the best chance for success or that support your goals the best.
Put other ideas aside for a while.

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Most of us conflict with time. Time is a paradox and is both limited and abundant at the same time. We can do great things with time, provided we know how to use this invisible resource.

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Once we realize that every moment is a gift, we will not waste it but use it intentionally, for something important and meaningful.

It is important that we set some clear priorities and create space for them.

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This exercise makes us value our limited time and sheds away the unnecessary activities from our day.

We start living a vivid life, and slow down, becoming fully present in the moment, savoring time like a limited edition treat before it vanishes.

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Getting in an auto-pilot mode with your daily life makes everything move fast, and life becomes too much of a routine. We think we are busy and don't have time but that's not true. We do have the time if the work is our priority, provided we know what is important to do.

Most of our time is spent doing what we have decided to spend it on, so we have to choose our priorities wisely.

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Production of new TV content has increased exponentially since the last decade, due to a variety of streaming platforms competing against each other and a whole lot of channels on the air.

But paradoxically, cultural consumption is moving towards the tried and tested classic programs and series, which seem comforting, familiar and a safe bet.

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Retro video games and 80’s /90’s music are a popular choice even with thousands of new and ultra-realistic video games and so many options in music being available, as they provide a sense of comfort in a world that is increasingly precarious and unstable.

The overabundance of content makes people feel overwhelmed and confused. Add to it the fact that today’s pop culture options often reflect the current dystopian world, when most of us are wanting to escape from it, and have limited time.

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.. is a deliberate act of revisiting old cultural favorites, as a form of self-discovery and self-identity. When people rewatch something, they watch it more intensely and can find out creative details and hidden meanings that were lost in the first viewing, appreciating the fine work of art even more.

Example: The Most Popular Sitcom in the UK in 2019 was the 90s sitcom Friends, which was in the Top 10 most-watched show list on Netflix the same year.

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In a society that is losing its sense of community, sharing of classic cultural entertainment, like watching an old, cherished movie together is an outlet towards a positive shared experience.

The tried and tested pop culture options have emotional and psychological upsides for most of us, making them a comforting, nostalgic choice.

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Money Heist is a thriller where the gang -all code-named after major cities - break into the Royal Mint of Spain, taking 67 people hostage and actively printing money. The plot doesn't go quite as planned and results in three romances and an island escape.

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Money Heist is part of a wave of Spanish dramas that have commanded large international audiences in recent years.

Money Heist is the single most-watched series in countries including France, Italy, Argentina, and Brazil; 34 million households watched the third series in its first week alone.

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Cultural specificity is one of the show's main selling points. Feeling, fraternity and love are as important as the plots.

In contrast, the English 'perfect heist' genre is cooler, more restrained, and more scientific.

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Although the series is meant to entertain, there is a political edge to the series' \"anti-system.\"

The action genre used to be considered shallow and superficial, but here skepticism towards governments, central banks, and the system are combined with an entertaining narrative.

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Before Sesame Street, music wasn't even considered as a means to teach children. But Sesame Street changed that and proved that kids are very receptive to a grammar lesson contained in a song.

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Big-name stars lined up to make guest appearances. Stevie Wonder and Grover; Loretta Lynn and the Count; Smokey Robinson and a marauding letter U. \"Sesame Street\" also showcased Afro-Caribbean rhythms, operatic powerhouses, Latin beats, Broadway showstoppers, and bebop.

Now, after 4,526 episodes, the legacy is evident: It impacted the music world as much as it shaped TV history, inspiring fans and generations of artists.

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The aim of \"Sesame Street\" was to build school preparedness and narrow the educational gap between lower- and upper-income children.

They used pedagogy advice from a Harvard professor. Research also showed children were more receptive when they watched with caregivers, so celebrities were introduced.

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Music on \"Sesame\" functioned in three ways: As backing tracks for animation and film clips, as live performances by well-knows guest artists, and as songs for the human actors and Muppets to sing.

The belief was that as the characters were of different ethnicities, the music should be multicultural too. As \"Sesame\" became more popular, it pulled more major musical talent.

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In 1973, Stevie Wonder participated in an episode-long musical guest, to teach Grover about vocal dynamics. Other stars also featured through the years, including Carly Simon, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, and Celine Dion. There was also room for classical stars.

The message was that even world-famous stars could be accessible.

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\"Sesame\" songs were built on a curriculum. Each year, outside experts outline pressing academic and social issues, and from that, an educational theme for the season is built.

After a song has lyrics, it is scored. Brevity and repetition are key, and the songs are tuned for catchiness. Demos go to producers and artists for approval and production suggestions.

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TV in the traditional sense isn’t what it used to be. The mediums watch-worthy content is less viewed on TV screens and more on the internet, especially on YouTube.

Popular YouTubers are getting into mainstream TV shows not because they want to publicize themselves, but because the TV shows want more viewers from YouTube.

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The 15-year-old platform to broadcast anyone and anything enjoys an unmatched status on the internet.

Any video media whatsoever has to have YouTube in its advertising, promotion, and marketing strategy, making it the world’s largest public video hosting platform.

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In 2005, YouTube started gaining early popularity with short 3-minute videos, which weren’t a threat to mainstream television.

By 2007, there were presidential debates and short celebrity skits to watch. Music and cat videos ruled the roost for years before the influencer group took over.

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Youngsters of all age groups find Youtube celebrities in the same league as any traditional pop or movie star. These Independent creators are responsible for nearly five billion videos streamed daily on the platform.

The Shoestring Budget ‘Anybodies’ mostly start with nothing but a Webcam or a Smartphone, showing their skills to the world. Their USP is their authenticity and reliability, which helps them garner the following of millions.

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As advertising revenue gets higher(currently $16 to $25 billion per year), the YouTube platform is slowly becoming more professional and ‘TV-like’. The sponsors now sound familiar (like Johnson & Johnson or Nike) and content is slicker and longer, with better production values and less controversial stuff that might scare away the advertisers.

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As YouTube scares away bad content, makes it longer, glossier and more advertisement friendly, it is creating the same corporate-friendly sameness that many despised in TV and thought of the YouTube platform as ‘indie’. It is a corporate transformation of a hippie place, where anyone who is not toeing the line can be barred from earning anything.

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There’s a reason why we place such importance on debates: They show us things about candidates that other venues do not, but they may also overwhelm everything else we know about the candidate.

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The first televised presidential debate in U.S. history may be the most consequential.

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Political mythology holds that Americans who listened to the debate on the radio thought Nixon was better, while those who watched it on television thought Kennedy was better.

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A moment that may have impacted the final result was when Ford stumbled over a question during their second debate regarding Poland, which he insisted was not under "Soviet domination." It was, and Ford had to retract his statement, contributing to the view that he was in over his head.

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There was widespread dissatisfaction with Carter but also concerns about Reagan's experience and temperament.

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With their first and only televised debate late in the election, Reagan convinced the American voters he was up for the job with a single liner ("There you go again") and an FDR-inspired closing statement (“Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”)

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Reagans first televised debate against Mondale brought renewed focus on his advanced age (Reagan was 73 at the time) and raised questions about how engaged he was in the business of the White House.

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However, Reagan was able to diffuse it with a simple joke: "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.”

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The beginning of the end of Michael Dukakis' once-promising presidential run was when he was asked about an arguably "gotcha" question about whether he would stand by his anti-death penalty position even if his wife were "raped and murdered."

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In the years since, Dukakis defended his robotic response. He didn't think his answer was that bad.

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Veteran Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen faced off against the youthful (and many argued inexperienced) Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle.

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During the debate, Quayle tried to link himself to the legacy of former President John F. Kenndey. But Bentsen said, "I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." It sparked spontaneous applause.

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The unusual inclusion of a third party candidate insured an even greater level of interest in the 1992 presidential debates.

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The first so-called "town hall" format was introduced. This format was very favorable to the Arkansas Gov, Bill Clinton, who was known for his physical comfort with voters.
President George H.W. Bush was more awkward in these kinds of encounters. When he was asked how the national debt and recession had impacted his life or the lives of anyone close to him, he was caught on camera looking at his wristwatch, increasing the perception that he was indifferent and detached from the concerns that touched Americans.

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Vice President Gore was sighing during Bush's answers and deemed smug and disrespectful. Then, he appeared to be ready to pounce on Bush physically, and his aggressiveness was held against him.

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Sarah Palin, the polarizing Alaska governor, entered the stage following a series of embarrassing headlines and poorly received interviews. Sen. Joe Biden had to walk a delicate balance since there was an increased sensitivity to sexism in the campaign.

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The debate ended up without any major incident. Palin made many factual errors and mostly pursued her own talking point instead of answering the moderator.

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After a dull first debate, President Obama saw his re-election chances in trouble. During his second prime-time against Republican Mitt Romney, Romney tried to rebuke Obama for allegedly not calling the recent embassy attack in Benghazi a terrorist attack.

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A confident Obama urged moderator Candy Crowley to "get the transcript." Crowley interjected and confirmed that the president had indeed called the incident an "act of terror."

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.. is the show business capital of the world, being synonymous with power, money, glitz and glamour. It is the abode of famous TV and movie studios and record companies.

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The place where Hollywood stands today was initially just plains and hills with just a small hut, in the year 1853, eventually becoming an agricultural community called Cahuenga Valley. Harvey Henry, a politician and real estate developer purchased a large piece of the future ‘Hollywood’ for a ranch and ended up using it as a township of upscale homes. In a couple of decades, the place had markets, hotels and other commercial establishments.

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.. was a banker and real estate mogul H.J. Whitley, who opened the Hollywood Hotel(Now Dolby Theater, the Oscar ceremony venue) and some residential neighbourhoods. According to many, he coined the name ‘Hollywood’ while honeymooning there in 1886, while some say it was named by Harvey’s wife Daeida Wilcox.

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.. made in Hollywood was The Count of Monte Cristo in 1908, followed by Old California in 1910. In the following decade, the first movie studio appeared on Sunset Boulevard, followed by many others who relocated from the East Coast.

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..which has become a major tourist attraction, was originally an electric billboard for Hollywood Hills, and originally spelt out “HOLLYWOODLAND” when it was erected in 1923 by real estate developer Harry Chandler. The sign has seen many updates and restorations and is featured in movies.

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.. of Hollywood began with the silent movie era, with comedies such as Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid and D.W. Griffith’s The Birth Of A Nation. The ‘Big Five’ movie studios dominated this era: Warner Brothers, RKO, Fox, MGM and Paramount. Movies with sound ushered in great recognition, affluence and fame for Hollywood, with its riveting fare of westerns, musicals, horror, and romantic dramas.

Movie stars began to be idolized, and movie studios took the current political climate and churned out movies with themes of war and patriotism(in World War I)

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..saw the greatest movies in Hollywood history being made, like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Jezebel, A Star Is Born, Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, and many others.

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.. lead to more people being anxious with the news headlines and needing a dose of humour, and at the same time, educate them about the realities of war. Great comedians like Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bob Hope and Jack Benny captured the imagination of movie-goers.

Many movie stars including Clark Gable and Henry Fonda enlisted in the armed forces, and many actresses like Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable motivated soldiers with their sex-appeal.

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A Supreme Court ruling in 1948 prohibiting movie studios to own theatres showing only their movies. The movie studios were also bound by a voluntary set of censorship rules called the Hays Code, which held them back as the audience grew liberal in the 60s. The same decade saw the explosion of Television, marking a slowdown in movie attendance.

Foreign content like the James Bond Franchise was popular, giving competition to Hollywood, while tabloid magazines began publishing the Hollywood ‘scandals’, destroying the wholesome images of famous movie stars.

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In 1947, The House Un-American Activities Committee(HUAC) started investigating communist ties in Hollywood, making many come to testify. Many directors and screenwriters(called The Hollywood Ten) protested but were jailed and fined as they were held in contempt of Congress. This entire fiasco created a scuffle in the industry with hundreds of actors, musicians, writers, producers and directors being denied work if they were thought to be supporting communism.

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Stripping away the glitz and glamour, a dark side of Hollywood was becoming visible. Thousands of starry-eyed runaways and naive youngsters rushed to the town carrying big dreams, spending all their money on acting classes and agents. For most of them, desperation set in after a while, and with no money, they turned to extreme ways, getting into drugs and prostitution, and the porn industry.

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The stress of fame and wild expectations(always being in conflict with reality) made drug and alcohol usage rampant in Hollywood. This led to the deaths of high-profile celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, and Heath Ledger, to name a few.

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For most of Hollywoods history, the ‘casting couch’ may be a hard reality, with rampant sexual abuse being ‘mainstream’. In 2017, Harvey Weinstein, a movie studio mogul, was charged with multiple accusations from employees and actors (called “MeToo”) leading to his downfall, empowering other victims to come forward and breaking the silence.

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The 60s and the 70s saw the ‘Second Golden Age’ of Hollywood, with directors like Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Francis Ford Coppola unleashing their creativity and vision.

Some groundbreaking cinema to experience at that time was Bonnie And Clyde, The Graduate, The Godfather, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.\n

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The late 70s and the 80s saw computer graphics reign in Hollywood, with blockbuster action movies (Indiana Jones Series, Jaws, Star Wars) put audiences in theatres, even as the 90s saw movie ticket sales declining due to the VCR. Hollywood pushed in for other revenue streams like video rentals, and later DVDs

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.. is a multi-billion dollar industry with epic-budget movies and massive mainstream content from big studios like Disney, and is on the cutting edge of technology.

Due to economic inequality, many Americans are wary of movie stars and their glamorous lifestyle at this age, while social media plays a crucial role in their perception among the public.

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It's one of the most successful TV shows ever made. Its pilot, “The Seinfeld Chronicles,” aired in 1989, but its second episode didn’t air until May of 1990.

Jerry Seinfeld's observational humor influenced many other shows of that period and even long after. The “single people living in the big city” premise became the centerpiece of seemingly every other sitcom

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Seinfeld changed the way sitcom stories are written. Until then, most sitcoms had A-story and a B-story, and a joke continued throughout the episode and told a very loose story but didn’t do much more than that.

Seinfeld didn't follow that pattern, because every character has their own storyline, all four of which converge in the final moments to create a whole that’s larger than its parts.

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Seinfeld is most likely the first series to dare the audience to identify with its characters by seeing their own worst traits reflected in them.

George, for example, is perhaps the show’s most repulsive character, but the public empathized with him because they recognize in him all of the times they've been unable to escape their own limitations and weaknesses.

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Elaine Benes was the first female character who was simply allowed to unapologetically be whatever she wanted to be.

Thanks to the work of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, one of the great comedic actresses of American television, Elaine could be both deeply weird and deeply feminine.

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By its final season, Seinfeld was a mega-hit, watched by large numbers of people in all demographics.

But at the beginning, as it struggled in the ratings, it was not only kept alive because it earned critical acclaim and awards attention, but because the people who were watching it were more demographically desirable to advertisers: young white people with lots of money who live in cities.

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Until then, a sitcom usually functioned like a filmed play, with multiple cameras in fixed positions capturing the action of a sitcom taping, usually in front of a live audience.

But as time passed by, Seinfeld inserted even more single-camera sequences into the action and it broke up its stories into smaller and smaller pieces, presaging the joke-a-second pace that most single-camera sitcoms run at today.

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Growing up in the 50's was a blessing due to a strange beast called Rock & Roll, the sound of which was a siren call to many, and the negative reaction given by the parents was like a certification of authenticity for the beautiful, edgy tunes.

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According to American pianist Fats Domino, Rock & Roll is essentially Rhythm & Blues, as that was the main inspiration of most of the 50's rockers.

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Rockers like Chuck Berry and Bill Haley, who idolized the legend Louis Jordan, strangely enough, sounded nothing like him. The new rockers, influenced by the previous generation of music, looked and sounded completely original and breathtaking.

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Bill Haley and The Comets were a runaway success in 1955, having an R&B style yet a unique sound of their own.

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... were recorded by producer Sam Phillips of Sun Label including Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis among other stalwarts.

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The tunes were mostly rebellious, catering to the teen crowd, and the ‘Marginal Americans’, those living in the ghettos or doing lowly jobs. This segment helped rock & roll explode in the mid-Fifties, making it a social and generational disruption of the highest degree.

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Many Rock & Roll legends of the Fifties started in the sidelines as small-time artists, playing to a handful of audience, while the major music labels concentrated on high-volume sales using disposable songs.

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The ‘50s saw the rise of a white rocker, Elvis Presley, to assure the triumph of rock & roll. One look at Elvis Presley and one couldn’t take the eyes off him. His magnetic presence was unheard and unseen, with no match even till now. He became an idol of millions in no time.

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The name of this brand of music was coined by an R&B disc jockey, Alan Freed, and it was known to many (but not too many) people that the term ‘Rock & Roll’ was slang for sex.

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Rock & Roll was carried to the top by the teens, who had spending money, a rebellious nature, in-group secret codes and ‘slanguage’, which they used to express themselves. They got along with this brand of music like a house on fire.

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... were multi-ethnic hybrids with a variety of origins.

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The Bo Diddley beat, inspired by Afro-Caribbean music, caught on well with many performers putting it in their records, from Johnny Otis to Buddy Holly.
A bass guitar riff was conveniently used by Elvis and Fats Domino among many others was from Cuban music.
Mexican rhythms were popularized by Ritchie Valens.
The swinging saxophone heard in the Fifties rock was derived out of the Forties Big-Band swing, along with the stop-time breaks.

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The 1955-56 era released from the cage the rock & roll heavyweights like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and of course Elvis Presley.

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The dark horse, who can be credited with defining rock & roll as a mainstream genre, was drummer Earl Palmer.

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The Fifties rock & roll culture succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest imagination, turning out to be an inspiration of every subsequent musical innovation from punk to hard rock.

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The few years of high-octane rock & roll were like a fever dream, when it reigned unchecked by any law or political correctness, with limitless possibilities and a free hand to live and create on the edge.

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Seinfeld was more innovative than we got to know at the time we watched it. A popular show in syndicate and on Netflix, its genius production, direction and comedy geometry is marveled at even now, as more people are getting to understand it.

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The Show About Nothing had no moral lessons. In fact, the characters routinely made bad choices, said the wrong things, and committed a faux pas almost in every episode.

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They had a rule for this: No Hugging, No Learning.

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In 30 odd minutes, Seinfeld packed more than 20 different scenes. Up to four different stories, which hilariously tied up with each other in the end, were thrown in the air, only to be skillfully caught by the master juggler Larry David (Co-producer and Director).

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The amount of content on the Internet is huge and it’s practically impossible for us to consume it all. But we struggle with it anyway.

This creates a situation where we are constantly digesting information mainly because “we have got to know this.” Even if we never apply that information in our own lives.

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In the case of information, reading several articles and sources on the same topic can create a lot of clutter. Because it creates internal struggles and questions:

What sort of information is important?
This post said this is important while another post said it wasn’t important. What information is relevant here?
What information should I internalize and apply?

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... for organizing information:

Location: put the most relevant stuff to be within reach.
Alphabet: for organizing lists of people and statistics, dictionaries, and official documents.
Time: used when providing step by step instructions or when things have to be in chronological order.
Category: organize information by similarity or relatedness.
Hierarchy: organizing information that is used collectively to compare things.

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It's a method of capturing thoughts and organizing them in a visual way.

This is an extremely effective tool to organize what matters most to you: If something is relevant to your goals and desires, write it down. If not, remove it from your mind.

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Make a to-do list every day and use that to organize the most important tasks for you to complete that day.

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Lists help to organize what must be done and give you a sense of time management as well.

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Put the notes that you make into specific groups of information. For example, if you have a lot of information on business ideas, or opportunities, write them in a book or place them in a digital document.

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Toss out the information you no longer need or have tried before.

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This strategy takes the idea of making lists to the next level: summarizing the information you consume or placing the key points in a list you can consult later.

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It doesn’t have to be organized in a collection or anything. The idea is that it’ll be easier to digest and process later when your brain has energy.

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2020 is rocky, with a health crisis, an economic crisis, and a social crisis all at the same time. This, coupled with our already complex lives has made us anxious and unable to deal with the information overload.

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Controlling our attention is the key to get over this type of anxiety, where the outside world just isn’t helping.

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According to Darren Hardy, author of The Power Of Compounding, our consumption of content the whole day (fear-inducing and fear-based news) hypnotises us negatively and impacts our output. What is put in us is what goes out of us.

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Do not rely on only mainstream organizations and try to get your news from individuals and multiple sources.

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Doing the right thing, no matter how unpopular, shows your commitment towards what really matters.

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Moreover, it is a human flaw to pay more attention to what people are saying, rather than what is being done. Action speaks louder than hollow words.

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As simple as it seems, being genuinely nice to others helps reduce anxiety.

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Our attention gets divided and clouded when we are pissed off, attracting further negative emotions out of nowhere. Avoid that attraction by being nice to others.

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We need to get a grip on ourselves.

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The occasional binging on Netflix, or the cheat meal, does not hurt, but it would if it is done regularly. One misstep, if it starts snowballing into several missteps, would make us lose our momentum, and it takes a lot of energy and focus to rebuild the same.

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Managing your attention may be the most important thing you do. Through your attention, you control your mind and through that, your entire life. It starts with managing your mind’s input, where you can be a gatekeeper.

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You are in control of your mind, the most important tool at your disposal

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Among the catastrophic debates over how TV and the Internet are making us mindless robots, the real problem to keep in mind: we need to cultivate more than we consume.

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The idea of evaluating how we spend our time is a healthy one, but the discussion usually looks more like an apocalyptic prediction than actual useful advice.

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What we tend to leave out is the fact that emerging technologies are a double-edged sword: the internet can both be a mindless distraction and the greatest educational tool of all times. It all revolves around the way you use it.

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This is the habit of only consuming the information that is brought in front of you, rather than actively cultivating knowledge in areas that are valuable to you.

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Addressing this problem can be done in a pragmatic way: consider it a habit audit, or an honest look at how you are spending your time.

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You should search only for helpful information that you can and will apply to your life far more often than you let random information interrupt you.

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The Circle of Control is anything that relates directly to you, information that improves how you spend your time.

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99% of the information you see won’t matter to you.

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Understanding where your time is going is far more important and useful than demonizing TV, the Internet, or mainstream news.

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Reduce irrelevant information and spend more time exploring the topics relevant to you, by:

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Improving job skills.
Experimenting with new interests.
Creating more work/art.
Getting intentional with your learning.

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Lateral thinking refers to a person's capacity to address problems by developing original answers to difficult questions.

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This is the essence of creativity. All organizations benefit from creative solutions when traditional solutions fall short.

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Lateral thinking can bear huge dividends in certain parts of a business.

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In finance, there are seldom new approaches to fundraising being considered as part of business continuity planning. However, there are many opportunities to think outside the box and solve problems.
People management is another area. The question to consider in HR is how to build talent pools for the future, and how to help people learn quickly and well.

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The critical point is this: it does not matter where you work or what you do, the ability to problem-solve and think critically is an increasingly in-demand skill, especially in times of change or crisis.

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A transitional object is someone or something with certain characteristics or qualities you can use as inspiration for new ideas.

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For example, "What would Bruce Lee do?" He taught the importance of using the energy of your attacker. How might this inform your strategy?

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To challenge traditional thinking, ask, "what's the one thing we absolutely should not do in this situation?" and then consider it as an advisable course of action.

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When innovating, it can be easier to go way out and wind back than to try solving problems by repeatedly starting from a conservative point.

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Most strategies and tactics involve doing more things in ever-shorter time. It reduces the impact while burning people out.

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To stimulate new thinking, ask, "what would happen if we stopped doing the following?" It will challenge your organization's received wisdom about resource deployment, which could be beneficial.

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All narratives are about a very small number of basic plots, namely: Quest, voyage and return, rebirth, comedy, tragedy, overcoming the monster, rags to riches. And they apply to more than just fiction writers.

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Consider which plot currently underpins your business and rewrite the future. Many leaders unconsciously follow a "tragedy" plot in times of crisis, but reframing your struggles as "voyage and return," you may experience a strategic shift that an exercise in lateral thinking helps you to achieve.

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Our fascination for the royal families is rooted in our basic human desire to be social and to mind the people we admire and understand.

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With famous media figures, people we learn about and celebrities we often live some of our lives through them.

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This behavior can create a one-sided relationship in which someone becomes attached to a person without actually interacting with them in any meaningful way.

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Parasocial behavior examples include: being emotionally devoted to your favorite TV show, sports team, or to the lives of the royal family members.

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Because people are curious about celebrities, media outlets keep covering them. And because celebrities are constantly in the media, people take notice. The cycle repeats, time and time again.

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There’s something charming and seductive about following the lives of a family that makes it look easy.

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For normal people, life is a constant struggle and attaining success is hard. But royals are fascinating because they inherited wealth, and social influence, and style, and fame, and they live this fairy tale life in castles - all the stuff that we grow up on.

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No matter how endless something seems, nothing lasts forever, and we have to handle the inevitable end. *This may be a healthy thing and not something to fear.

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Deadlines have a substantial effect on our behaviour. Many deals are made at the last minute, and many soccer games have their tables turned in the final fifteen minutes.

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People navigate the ‘ending’ of something using different coping mechanisms.

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Some use detachment, when they distance themselves emotionally from something or someone they are about to lose.
Others mourn the loss of the person or thing.

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First-hand exposure to death makes one live life in a spiritual, reflective manner.

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Terminally ill patients who write their last words are more often than not filled with positive words and inspirations. The anticipation of their end, which is now in plain sight, has a profound effect on their personal growth and maturity.
People who survive major accidents or have a life-changing near-death experience are more likely to live in the present moment and be more appreciative of life. They have a deep sense of spiritual well-being and show inner transformations.

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People who survive major accidents or have a life-changing near-death experience are more likely to live in the present moment and be more appreciative of life. They have a deep sense of spiritual well-being and show inner transformations.

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Tesla (formerly Tesla Motors) was founded in 2003 and named after the famous 19th Century inventor Nikola Tesla, who is idolized by the tech community and engineers.

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His work in electromagnetic fields, specifically the ‘alternating current’ is the basis of many inventions in the past century.

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The current CEO of Tesla wasn’t the founder of the company and joined in 2004. His investments and lobbying provided the company with much-needed traction to build the first completely electric sports car, called the Roadster, which went into production in 2008.

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The futuristic electric sports car was a technical marvel but out of reach for most people at USD 100,000, and also had a slow charge.

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2008 saw many upheavals and changes in leadership, with Elon Musk taking over as CEO in October 2008, and cutting manpower by 25 per cent.
Tesla faced financial problems in 2009 but drove through it safely by going public in 2010.
The company unveiled its mainstream consumer vehicle, named the Model S in 2011, and was critically successful, gaining a wide user base due to its lower cost (only USD 76,000!) and futuristic technology.

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The company Tesla started making profit in 2013, a year after it launched thousands of charging stations all across the world. It announced it’s Gigafactory, one of the largest factories in the world, in 2014 in Nevada, where it makes batteries and solar panels

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Tesla is now pivoting to solve energy problems across multiple sectors, apart from launching great electric cars, much to the delight of the consumers who can afford it.

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The harder and longer you work, the less productive overall you'll be. Research confirms that taking breaks before you're mentally exhausted is essential for productivity.

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When you take time for a break, get up and stretch, get water, go for a 5- to 10-minute walk outside into some nature. If you don't plan your breaks, you'll end up taking unintentional breaks like surfing the internet because your brain is searching for relief. You'll end up needing a much longer break to recover.

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Set your personal boundaries, so you have dedicated time to take care of yourself, your family or household, and your professional responsibilities. You won't be any good to your family if you regularly jump up to respond to work.

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The key to success is deciding on expectations, then communicating those to others. You need to get clear in your mind what hours you will be attending to your work. Perhaps dedicate a space in your home as the "office," letting everyone know that you need privacy. Decide when you are "on" and when you are "off."

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We all have tools in our pockets to help us.

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For example, consider using your phone's built-in alarm for taking breaks, or giving yourself a reminder to eat lunch, or taking a screen break to reduce eyestrain.
If you find it challenging to work, consider a productivity method like the Pomodoro technique, where you work deeply for about 25 minutes, then take a short break. Repeat four of the cycles, then take a 30-minute break before starting again. There are many Pomodoro apps to help you.
Don't forget to use the same technology to turn off notifications and distractions while you're working.

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Be less informed about the business outside your door. There is a point where bad news can wait.

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It's essential to take a step back and think about what it means to stay informed. Consider only viewing trusted news sources instead of scrolling through social media. Try to create a list of positive headlines. When something good happens, take specific note of it.

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The goal is to get the things you have to get done finished and spend more time on things that you want to do.

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“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

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Action gets results. Results are what you want, not just ideas.

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Don't spend all your time thinking about everything you can improve. Until you start doing what needs to be done, you're not really making a difference.

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“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”

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The biggest hurdle is to take that first step. You have everything you need to make an impact in the world if you can push the reasons aside why you should not start now.

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Use what you have right now where you are and just start. Watch the magic of getting things done.

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"Success demands a singleness of purpose."

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Many people want to do well at work. You may risk and do much but will have nothing to show for it.

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You won't be able to do everything this week or this month. That is okay. As long as you are consistent and stick to the process. It's important to take time out and ask how you could have done differently to achieve the same results.

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“If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.”

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The demand for our time is increasingly more than our capacity. We are currently flooded with information and requests and may feel compelled to meet the expectations.

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It is draining us of the energy we need. But being selective and doing less is the path of the productive.

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“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

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We will always be able to come up with another excuse why this is not the best time. There is no perfect time. So re-clarify your goals.

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What do you want to achieve?
What should you do to get there?
What are the steps to take?

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“Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realised how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time.”

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Sometimes you can feel like you're always working against the clock, and rearranging plans and tasks to meet deadlines. When you do take time to relax, you feel guilty.

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Taking breaks refreshes your mind and allows you to come back to your task with renewed energy and a sense of purpose.

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Sudoku has been identified as a classic meme - a mental virus that spreads from person to person across national boundaries. The puzzle is using our brains to multiply across the world.

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Sudoku consists of 81 squares, divided into nine blocks of nine squares each. Some squares contain a number. The goal is to fill in the empty squares so that the figures 1 to 9 appear just once in every row, column, and individual block. The puzzle does not require general knowledge or mathematical skill.

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In 1783, a Swiss mathematician made 'Latin Squares,' which was described as magic squares.
The Dell Puzzle Magazine published the puzzle Number Place in the late 1970s.
As Dell continued to publish the puzzle through the Eighties quietly, it was imitated and embraced in Japan. Publisher Nikoli made two small improvements and renamed it Sudoku. 'Su' means a number, and 'doku' translates as singular.

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In 1997, Wayne Gould, a man from New Zealand, was visiting Tokyo. While he was browsing a bookstore, he saw the squares and felt tempted to fill them in. Over the next six years, he developed a computer program that instantly makes up Sudoku puzzles.

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Gould's wife published one of his puzzles in the local newspaper. It spread to Britain and was published in the Times, where it took off.

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Working from home does not necessarily mean we are enjoying life and can’t be in stress. Work can feel dull and monotonous as there is comparatively less movement or change of scenery.

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With most interactions becoming virtual, one can feel trapped in this scenario with nothing to look forward to.

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According to the World Health Organization, Burnout is classified as an occupational phenomenon, also known as vital exhaustion.
It is a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress and anxiety, causing physical and mental problems.
The symptoms include energy depletion, exhaustion, increased mental distance, a negative outlook towards one’s job and diminished productivity.

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Burnout is experienced in a different shade at home, where the symptoms tend to be tiredness, confusion, forgetfulness, frustration and anger. As the mood starts to dip slowly, the mind reaches a low state, from which it is hard to climb back.

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Taking a vacation is a great idea, to begin with, even if you don’t really go anywhere. The idea is to take a break from your work.

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If possible, have separate places for work, rest or discussion when working from home.
Make yourself a mini work area in the corner of the room rather than working all over the house on your laptop.
Set boundaries with your family and loved ones, letting them know the times you would be working.
Have a ritual like doing some exercise, going for a jog, followed by a bath to set your mind in ‘work mode’ while establishing a time gap, to transition yourself to work. This emulates the office commute and gets you in your mental work zone.

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If you already feel burnt out:

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Go for a walk and sit alone for a while.
If that is not possible, go take a shower and provide your thoughts with some space.
Turn off the screens around you and do something that brings you joy.
Avoid smoking/drinking.
Connect with your loved ones.
Get some exercise
Do a self-care activity.
Try to work smart, not hard.
Practice mindfulness.
Do a gratitude exercise that focuses on the positive.

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With all the 2020 events, we all want life to be normal again. While we are starting to adjust to the new normal, many of us are not adjusting in a good way. We let go of positive routines and replace them with bad habits and activities.

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We engage in fewer rewarding activities, ponder on stresses we can do nothing about, don't see friends frequently, and replace good habits with behaviors that keep us stuck. We are also unconsciously pausing our life and trying to wait this out.

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The idea behind BAT is that we have to do happy to feel happy. Instead of our mood changing what we do, we need to change what we do to fix our mood. The first principle of BAT is to change what you do. Engage in the right activities and positive feelings will follow.

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We can't wait until we feel better before we act. Emotions perpetuate themselves. We have to move now and break the cycle of our feelings. This is how we grab hold of happiness.

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Pleasure is vital, but we want the kind that will last and not leave you even more stressed than before you started. We're looking for a deeper satisfaction that comes from truly meaningful activities like relationships, exercise, and reading.
Mastery can be thought of as a feeling of accomplishment. Progress in goals that are meaningful to you, whether it pays the bills or not.

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Create a balance between leisure activities and mastery.

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Values are ongoing (staying fit). Goals can be achieved (go running today). When you prioritize your values, your goals will not be in conflict with one another.

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Goals should be challenging, but possible. Make them specific and measurable. Frame your goals in a positive way that will provide positive reinforcement.

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Don't allow your mood to define when you will do something. When we choose in the moment, we often choose badly, especially in stressful times.

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Note the results of your actions and revise accordingly. Don't allow your mood to dictate your actions. You came up with the rules. You're telling you what to do.

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The digital age combined with short attention spans and time constraints has led to the demise of various punctuation skills like the omission of apostrophes, deliberate spelling mistakes and using abbreviations to a larger extent.

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The new generation seems to create a new punctuation-free language of their own which does the job and is largely ignoring many prescribed grammar rules that seem like a relic of an old, elitist era.

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Early stone inscriptions did not even have the punctuation we all take for granted: The blank space.
Ancient Greece and Rome had the written word for keeping records of political speeches and texts, which were carefully used by the orator for maximum rhetorical effect and verbal impact.
In 200 BCE, the Alexandrian Aristophanes worked on easing pronunciation of Greek for foreigners by using small circles to denote pauses, emphasising the rhythm of the sentence.
The 7th-century encyclopaedist Isidore Of Seville later took up the task of inserting grammar in the same text, inventing the period, the colon and the comma.

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The language in the Quran had cantillation marks written above the line to signify the kind of pause required.
The 9th Century Torah manuscripts show vowel additions and cantillation marks that help in the recitation of the same.
Modern Arabic and Hebrew texts have similar punctuation marks as many western languages.

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The breaks and sonic links were primarily used to aid singing, sense-making and enhancing the beauty of the verses.

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By the middle ages, when the comma, the full stop and the colon had become common, the question mark and the exclamation mark came in the picture, as it became clear that the spoken word was easily understood, but the written word needed emotional emphasis, clarity and intonation to be understood in its true context.

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The Brackets as a form of punctuation came in the 14th century, first used by the Italian scholar Coluccio Salutati.

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It was used 1500 years earlier (as a parenthesis) to separate one text from the other, forming a digression. The more subtle usage inside sentences came much later.

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Invented in 1450, the printing press revolutionized the distribution of books, and along with it, punctuation.

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A large number of copies were now possible to be created with ease and a low cost and had the advantage of the replication being identical, paving the way for standardization and legibility.

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Printers in many countries like Italy, France and Germany pioneered the use of advanced punctuation like the semicolon(invented by Italian poet Pietro Bembo) in 1494.
The usage of the semicolon, a way to pause in a sophisticated manner, puzzled many writers(and readers) making them a much-ridiculed form of punctuation for many centuries.
The prison letters by Martin Luther King Jr. used a series of sentences suspended in the air using the semicolon, adding to the weight of the suppressed black people’s conditions.
A 2012 reader survey in the Swedish Journal Språktidningen listed the semicolon as a favourite punctuation mark.

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In 1905, Russian printers demanded to be paid for punctuation, which according to them requires the same amount of effort and time as any normal letter of the alphabet.

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This ‘Comma Strike’ spread as a popular boycott, leading to political turmoil.

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The Mirrored Question Mark was created in 1575, to denote sarcasm or signal a rhetorical question.
The Upside Down Exclamation Mark was introduced in 1668, to signal irony.

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These new marks and their iterations came in various manuscripts in the 18th and the 19th century but never caught on.

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Full stops are now considered rude in a social media setting as they denote ‘finality’, which is the opposite of the infinite digital scroll seen everywhere.
Replying with a small word followed by a full stop (sure. ok.) in a digital conversation(like iMessage) feels abrupt and inconsiderate.
Colons and brackets have a new purpose: capturing the emotions and feelings of the writer to denote context.

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Our entire life is an experiment, where we are pursuing our goals and finding out what works and what does not.

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A scientific, experimentative approach to life leads us to acquire what we want in life, to build good habits, improve our relationships and become a better version of ourselves.

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The more we experiment, the more avenues open up to learning new techniques, principles and skills that contribute to our self-growth, and help us make a real breakthrough.

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Deliberate experiments can be time and money intensive, can help us with incremental changes or can put us in an entirely new paradigm of self-evolution.

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Mainstream knowledge, expertise, skills and techniques have a linear curve towards growth and success. Experimentation breaks the curve and provides us with an exponential success curve, something that is not possible with the path everyone else is taking.

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Many great personalities like Thomas Edison, Picasso and Da Vinci were ‘life-experimenters’ who were always trying something new and hence were the reason for disruptive inventions and some of the most loved creations.

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Greatness and the ability to be extraordinary isn’t limited to a chosen few, and we all can increase our deliberate experiments and increase our odds of infinite success in a significant way.
The creator of Nike, Phil Knight talks about experimenting with your crazy ideas and keep going, not be stopped by rules and regulations and acceptability.
Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, talks about taking the ‘bet’ on life every time, and even with a 10 per cent chance of success, you are going to do well.

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Human beings love to gossip, chatter and jest, but some conversations can be stressful, confusing, and even embarrassing. To avoid conflicts and the avoidable pain it can bring, we tend to dodge a stressful conversation.

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The emotional entanglement and the feelings that get stirred up throws most of us out of balance, and we are unable to work harder to improve our handling of the problem, making it worse.

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While giving bad news to others, like giving feedback or firing someone, one can find it difficult to strike the right note.
When a small sentence or even a word can be taken as a negative provocation and trigger an adverse reaction. Suddenly the conversation becomes intensely charged emotionally.
A conversation where one resorts to profanity, manipulation, shouting to thwart the other person.

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Be fully aware of one’s own vulnerabilities and shortcomings.
Anticipate any specific problem that may occur, and try to rehearse it if possible.
Understand that words are key that can make or break your conversation, and try to fine-tune and neutralize your phrasing.

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Respect the other person, and acknowledge the problem, along with the responsibility, making the conversation impersonal and non-provoking.
Restate your intentions using a non-threatening, neutral language, aligning your core objective with your words without attacking the listener.
If a person is using a manipulative, aggressive tactic, one can neutralize it by naming it, openly identifying what the other person is trying to do.

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A series of studies have confirmed that speaking to yourself can influence your performance. When comparing the effectiveness of self-talk using first person pronouns "I can do this!" to second-person pronouns "You can do this!", researchers found that second-person self-talk improved performance.

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Previous research suggested that second-person self-talk enhances public speaking performance because it increased self-distancing - where you step outside your immediate emotions and view them instead from a detached perspective.

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Individual variation. Not everyone benefits from the second-person self-talk. People with more narcissistic tendencies use first-person pronouns more frequently, making them more or less sensitive to the effect.
Customized self-talk for athletes. Framing self-statements in a positive light tend to be encouraging and actionable. For example, changing "keep grinding" to "I (You) can keep going."

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Sleeping less has been associated with increased risk of obesity, and addition of body fat, as it affects the overall metabolism of the body, and can also affect our appetite.

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Sleep duration is a problem for many adults, as they find sleeping the recommended seven to nine hours a night a challenge, given the hectic lifestyle and social commitments.

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Various studies point out that sleep influences two appetite hormones, leptin (to decrease appetite) and ghrelin (to stimulate appetite), which is also known as the hunger hormone.
Lack of sleep is associated with higher levels of ghrelin and lower levels of leptin, making the person more likely to overeat.

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Sleep-deprived people crave for and also end up eating more carb-rich foods and sugar.
Sleep duration affects the release of insulin in the body, that affects our glucose levels, and prolonged sleep deprivation can lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Research shows that exercise prevents the damage done by lack of sleep and also makes one eat less.

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To stay healthy, one has to sleep more and also do regular exercise.

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We mistakenly attempt to change our habits while keeping our core identity. As we play our different roles, we have to switch to different identities, like a father, teacher, reader, speaker and entrepreneur.

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One can derive many benefits from making this powerful subtle change of changing one’s mindset about who we are, a more focussed and intentional process.

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Changing your identity will automatically lead you to discard some behaviours that are not associated with that identity, helping you stop smoking or eating meat, for example.
Your behaviour will align with the behaviour of the chosen identity.
You will not have to lecture yourself every day about your motivations.
You will be surprised about the many old beliefs about your abilities suddenly vanishing.
The mindset change will bring new growth and new possibilities.

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The best and fastest way to change your identity is to do it intentionally and consciously.
Visualize yourself as the person in the new identity, like a writer, a minimalist, a non-smoker or a vegan, and write down the same to reflect on it.
Get into action mode and see yourself being the new person, like getting up in the morning and witnessing yourself wearing the running shoes and going out for a run. See yourself in your new identity while in action.
Appreciate and reinforce your new identity on yourself and be the change. See how easy it is to be an early riser or a runner or a writer.
If you miss a day or two, don’t give up and visualize yourself as the new identity handling the disruption.

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Many people are susceptible to follow and be ruled by an authority figure and obey commands that defy logic, reasoning and are also unfair or dangerous to others.

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Fear is a powerful tool deployed by authoritarians, who make use of how a person’s brain processes information and handles emotions.

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Most people blindly follow a figure of authority due to an inbuilt culture of obedience, where positional power eclipses any sound judgement.
Authoritarians ensure most of the information never reaches people, by discrediting or cutting off the information sources.
They use incremental action by gradually increasing the demands that are made on others.
They ensure that people don’t have any personal responsibility for their actions. Example: Managers hiding behind company policy to justify unfairness at the workplace.
They use the power of fear by discrediting facts, scapegoating, polarization, and divide and rule tactics.

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Normally, we utilize the ‘high road’, the main regions of the brain (thoughtfulness and reasoning) before any information reaches the amygdala (region of emotional response).

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When a brain reacts due to any kind of threat, the main brain regions are skipped as the ‘low road’ is taken, sending the information directly to the emotional processing region, activating stress, anxiety and fear-based reactions.

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The practice of mindfulness enhances our emotional stability and cognitive ability, shielding us from the manipulations of authoritarians. The practice requires one to recognize and label our emotions, avoid the ‘low road’ of fear-based reaction.
By being aware of and focused in the world around us, we can develop existential courage that is also called ‘hardiness’, increasing our ability to challenge, control and commit to our surroundings and events. It provides us with a greater sense of presence, enabling us to grow and learn.

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After a project ends, team members often reflect on what worked, and what did not, something known as post-mortem documentation.

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What is often overlooked is a pre-mortem exercise where a team uses visualization and second-level thinking to imagine the various scenarios which could lead to failure and then work backwards, using prospective hindsight.

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Optimism Bias is when we are sure about the success of a certain project or venture and do not take into account the scenarios of failure.
Temporal Discounting is a cognitive error where we make decisions taking into account the present condition, and not bothering about any future consequences.

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Just one ‘Pre-Mortem’ meeting at the beginning of the project can uncover many blind spots, recalibrating the mindset of all the team members.

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Anticipating the future also fosters honest and open communication, and quells any fear.

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Review: Discuss goals and explain the various roles and responsibilities to each of the team members.
Set-Up: Anticipate a scenario where the project is over and was a disaster.
Brainstorm: Each team member notes the reasons it could have failed, which is easier to imagine now that the failure has been established.
Share And Discuss: Everyone shares and discusses, getting into the details of the failure.
Improve The Plan: Now that the prospective hindsight has been utilized, one can review and improve the plan using the new information.

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After IQ and EQ, Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is a new type of intelligence on the rise due to globalization and a complex, competitive and dynamic business environment.
Employees having a high level of CQ are able to act as a bridge that connects to a diverse group of peers, transferring knowledge and helping build interpersonal connections.
Their multi-faceted, multicultural approach gives a global, vibrant flavour to the product or service that they are working on while driving up innovation and creativity within the team.

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Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is a system comprising of three well-connected components:

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Cultural Knowledge: The content and process knowledge of the various cultures.
Cross-cultural Skills: A wide range of skills that pertain to the various facets of a culture, like relational, tolerance of uncertainty and ambiguity, adaptability, empathy, and the ability to understand other people's feelings.
Cultural Metacognition: Also called cultural mindfulness, is the art of being aware of the cultural context, the subtleties of various situations, and the kind of strategies that can be taken.

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One can develop cultural knowledge through newspapers, movies, travelling to various countries, and interacting officially or personally with people of different cultures, learning new traditions, customs, cuisines, and rich new ways to live life.

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One can identify and analyse the different cultures and utilize the knowledge in future.

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Experiential learning, On-the-job training or studying abroad make us develop various cross-cultural skills in a course of time. The process takes less time when there is already ample cultural knowledge.

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Example: Showing up ten minutes late in a meeting is not considered rude in Spain.

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This advanced cognitive understanding of other cultures takes place when one observes and analyzes the behaviour of the person from a different culture you want to learn about.

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One needs to pay a good amount of attention to check, reflect and optimize the other person’s behaviour to be able to develop this cognitive ability.

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Reading can be harnessed into a great opportunity for mindfulness, and provide us with space to be in the present moment.

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Many times a day, we unconsciously read a banner advertisement or a text notification on our smartphones, not realizing that we only read passively, and not give much thought to this amazing ability.

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Find some quiet time to read when there is ample time to indulge and pick something engaging but not too challenging.
Try to read from a physical book but if you have to read from a smartphone or tablet, disable notifications and turn on the soothing reading mode.
As you progress in the book, notice the color, ink and the smell of the pages, your slowing down or getting sleepy is a good sign, it means your brain is responding to this new, refreshing cycle of activity.
Notice the language, the rhythm of the sentences, the vibrant details that build a visual image inside your mind.
Do not be frustrated if you wander, it is part of reading to get lost in something beautiful.
Gently glide back in the book and enjoy whatever you get out of it.

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Money is not a fixed entity. It is a complex of data points, challenges, and opportunities you encounter and have feelings about. Your decisions about money affect your emotions and behavior.

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There are three factors you need to know about the psychology behind your relationship with money:

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Emotion have a big role in your relationship with money.
Anxiety and avoidance create a vicious cycle in relation to money.
Psychologically, family and childhood will continue to influence you when you make money decisions.

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The most important emotions about money to become aware of are fear, guilt, and shame. Without awareness, these emotions will interfere with your rational thinking.

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Common fears include fear of having too little money, fear of looking foolish, fear of causing envy.
Guilt is about feeling bad about a negative impact you've had on others. You may feel guilty because you have more than your friends, or are not charitable.
Shame is feeling troubled when you don't live up to your own values. Shame related to money involves feelings of not having enough money, avoiding thinking about finances, avoiding doing what you're supposed to do with your finances, feeling ignorant, and overspending.

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Other emotions that influence your handling of money include envy, greed, and over-excitement.

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Mental health problems can have a significant effect on your finances.

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Excessive use of alcohol leads to poor judgment and inattentiveness to finances.
Depression can cause a loss of employment. People with depression also lack energy and a sense of purpose.
People with a mild expression of bipolar disorder can experience states with increased energy, decreased inhibitions, exciting plans, and are overstimulated to spend.
Adults with ADHD/ADD have the ability to pay intense attention to tasks that really interest them while screening out the tedious or mundane.

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All families have their own psychology of money: what they can talk about, who should be in control, how important money is.

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You may have experienced subtle pressures to correct the injustices perpetrated or suffered by previous generations. You may feel internal pressure to go against the family money mentality, or you may the first in your family to succeed and may want to give back to the family while neglecting your own financial needs.

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Emotions can be useful. They tell you what matters to you.

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Mild anxiety is motivating for example. Harness your emotions to attend to what you need to face.

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Surviving. It is looking after our basic need for food, shelter, and companionship.
Thriving. This state attempts to make something of ourselves beyond meeting our basic needs. This state makes us feel like we are living up to our true self, to our potential. For most people, this means challenging themselves to be more of who their core dictate they could and should be.

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There is a gap between the state of surviving and thriving that needs to be closed before a thriving life can be embraced.

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In the modern world, our senses are abused by artificial lights, sounds, and smells in the cities we live in. Our media devices fill us with more helpful and useless information that we can consume in multiple lifetimes. Our problem is not with the abundance, but that we don't know how to manage all of this.

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When the most successful people were interviewed in the 1990s, they all shared one commonality: They were incredibly complex people. They were both differentiated and integrated.

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They were differentiated because they took it on themselves to get exposed to the world. They were integrated because they learned to make sense of this diverse absorption.

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Many people are integrated but not differentiated. They haven't done the work to expose themselves to complexities. They find it easy to ignore the excess noise in the world. But deep down, they know they aren't really living a life that's true to who they are.

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Then some people are differentiated but not integrated. They have exposed themselves to lots of information, picked out the values that are true to them, but they don't know how to make it all cohere. They can't act on what they know. They follow after every distraction. And it doesn't help that this complex, abundant world demands so much of them.

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We can develop our potential by cultivating awareness - by looking for ways we get in our own way and advising ourselves to a course of action.

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Awareness is about observing our emotional experience, to see it clearly and objectively, to accept it, and then to decide how to deal with it. This will slowly build a fertile ground for our ability to thrive.

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7 Science-Backed Habits Of Outrageously Successful Job Seekers

Critical thinking is analyzing what you observe closely, and deduction is coming up with a conclusion based on those facts.

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