There are four insanities that successful people live and breathe :1.Insanely enthusiastic: The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek word enthousiasmos , meaning inspiration or possession by a god.When you are enthusiastic about something,you are not just keen and eager,you are in love with it too.You find yourself thinking, talking, dreaming, contemplating about it all the time.Consider yourself very lucky if you are insanely enthusiastic about something in life;half the job is done.

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2.Insanely persistent:Persistence is not giving up no matter what.Persistence is to continue working on something with an open mind while you make improvements to progressively build your chances of success.Successful people are not afraid of changing their opinion about something.There's no wisdom in sticking to something just because you said so even tough you now know better.In other words,they continue to learn and improve.

3.Insanely independent:Champions in any field,be it corporate leadership,sports,arts,etc., are fiercely independent thinkers.They have mastered the delicate art of balancing other's inputs and opinions with their own goals and views.They don't go out seeking approval on every little matter nor do they need to be spoon fed.Paradoxically, independent people make great team players and they certainly make inspirational leaders.

4.Insanely clear:Clarity of thought is the foremost quality of successful and happy people.It's the stuff geniuses are made of. A confused person takes the longest path to success (material or spiritual). When you are clear ,you may fail ,and yet your other qualities help you make better decisions the next time vastly improving your odds of success

Stand for something worthwhile.All is possible then.What success means to you can't and ideally shouldn't come from external sources because an overwhelming majority of people around you are simply chasing success defined by others.It takes deep insighy to realise that you must have your own definition of success. And it won't be possible until you are clear about your principles and values or in ,other words ,what do you stand for?Your life will never be the same again the day you figure out the answer to this question.

Something Beyond 

6 Business Principles to Up Your Game You may have an Oscar-winning screenplay and a star-studded cast, but no scene is shot without “action.” Successful people who turn their dreams into reality do so with extraordinary hard work. Drawing from his years of experience as a serial entrepreneur who built and nurtured a number of startups into multi-million-dollar enterprises, bestselling author Om Swami opens up in this book like never before. The Heart of Success is yet another masterpiece from the monk who actually sold his Porsche and picked up a pen for a living. No matter who you are—an entrepreneur or an aspiring one, a management graduate on your first internship or a seasoned manager—by the time you finish reading this book, you will be better equipped to succeed in business and life as well as handle the responsibility that comes with success. With plenty of humor and anecdotes, find out what it takes to be successful, no matter what. OM SWAMI has touched the lives of millions around the world through his bestsellers on spirituality and wellness. An MBA from University of Technology, Sydney, he has built and exited multi-million dollar businesses. An unconventional monk, he’s the brain behind the fastest-growing meditation and kindness movement in the world: Black Lotus. Om Swami writes on his blog, os.me, twice a month, and stays away from all forms of social media.

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6 Business Principles to Up Your Game You may have an Oscar-winning screenplay and a star-studded cast, but no scene is shot without “action.” Successful people who turn their dreams into reality do so with extraordinary hard work. Drawing from his years of experience as a serial entrepreneur who built and nurtured a number of startups into multi-million-dollar enterprises, bestselling author Om Swami opens up in this book like never before.   The Heart of Success is yet another masterpiece from the monk who actually sold his Porsche and picked up a pen for a living. No matter who you are—an entrepreneur or an aspiring one, a management graduate on your first internship or a seasoned manager—by the time you finish reading this book, you will be better equipped to succeed in business and life as well as handle the responsibility that comes with success.  With plenty of humor and anecdotes, find out what it takes to be successful, no matter what. OM SWAMI has touched the lives of millions around the world through his bestsellers on spirituality and wellness. An MBA from University of Technology, Sydney, he has built and exited multi-million dollar businesses. An unconventional monk, he’s the brain behind the fastest-growing meditation and kindness movement in the world: Black Lotus. Om Swami writes on his blog, os.me, twice a month, and stays away from all forms of social media.

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The Heart of Success

<ul><li>Use anchoring and your understanding of the zone of possible agreement (ZOPA) to decide when to make a first offer during a negotiation.</li><li>Auction, when you have a large number of potential buyers, the asset for sale is well specified, or speed and process transparency are important.</li><li>Negotiate when bidders are well known, when the potential for value creation is high, when the working relationship is important, or when the seller has a low-risk tolerance.</li><li>Use setup moves, rearranging moves, and shut-down moves to change the game to your advantage.</li></ul>

Dealmaking: Key Takeaways

<ul><li>Negotiauctions is a dealmaking situation in which competitive pressure is coming from both across-the-table competition and same-side-of-the-table competition.</li><li>Negotiauctions are common in complex dealmaking situations.</li><li>The difference between a negotiation, auction, and negotiauction is the source of competitive pressure.</li><li>You need to think multiple steps ahead.</li></ul>Remember that individuals negotiate deals. It’s critical to understand the incentives of the individuals who are doing the negotiating.

Negotiauctions

<ul><li>Several (but not too many) potential buyers. Usually between three and ten.</li><li>Asymmetric information. The seller typically knows more about the structure of the situation than the buyers.</li><li>Ambiguity around traditional process setter and process taker roles. The process itself is up for grabs. Roles are highly malleable and control over the deal process can shift over time.</li><li>One or more rounds of bidding and other forms of direct competition among potential buyers in ways that resemble auctions.</li></ul>

Common Features of Negotiauctions

<ul><li>Anchoring works by influencing your perceptions of where the zone of possible agreement (ZOPA) lies.</li><li>Anchoring is a reason for making the first offer, because you can potentially influence the other party.</li><li>But it only works when the other side is uncertain about where the ZOPA is.</li></ul>

Anchoring

Anchoring too aggressively. If you make a first offer way outside of the ZOPA, you may have to make large concessions to reach a deal or walk away even though a zone of possible agreement exists.Anchoring too conservatively. You unknowingly give away a big chunk of the ZOPA on your first move.Use the midpoint rule to your advantage in the first offer itself. Think about where you want to end up and start with a counteroffer that gets you to that number as a midpoint.

Risks of Making the First Offer

<ul><li>Consider making the first offer when you have a pretty good sense of where the ZOPA is in order to anchor the negotiation in your favour.</li><li>If you don’t know the ZOPA, hang back and let the other side make the first offer, or make a soft anchor, e.g. “We’re thinking about something in the ballpark of $30.”</li><li>When you don’t know the ZOPA, but your opponent does, resist their attempt to anchor you.</li><li>Default to a first offer that is more aggressive than your instincts might lead you to make.</li></ul> Ask: What is the highest number that I can justify?

First Offer Guidelines

Differences in expectations about the future often create value in negotiations.Contingency contracts have three major benefits:<ul><li>They align incentives.</li><li>They allow the parties to diagnose the honesty of the other side.</li><li>They enable the parties to share the risk.</li></ul>

Value-Creating Moves

An auction is a mechanism in which the seller is a passive participant after the process has been set, and the primary source of competitive pressure arises from competition among buyers.Negotiation is a mechanism in which the primary source of competitive pressure arises in across-the-table dynamics between buyer and seller.

When to Auction, When to Negotiate

Consider the following:<ul><li>The number of bidders.</li><li>Certainty about who the bidders are.</li><li>Buyers’ incentives to participate.</li><li>Distribution of valuations.</li></ul>

Factors To Consider: Profile of Potential Bidders

<ul><li>All else equal, the more you are able to specify what you want, the more likely it is that an auction will be a better option than a negotiation.</li><li>Buying commodities is a good example of an appropriate thing to auction.</li><li>Even clearly defined services can be auctioned like commodities effectively. But you risk losing out on potential win-wins that might have come up during a negotiation.</li></ul>

Factors To Consider: Asset Characteristics and Specifications

<ul><li>Auctions boil everything down to price.</li><li>Negotiations open things up for value-creation.</li><li>If there is a possibility for win-win moves, it is better to negotiate with one or more potential counterparties than to hold an auction.</li></ul>

Potential for Value Creation

<ul><li>Negotiations are best when relationships, service, and/or deal execution are important aspects of what is being bought or sold.</li><li>Negotiations leave room for a more favourable resolution of potential problems down the road.</li><li>Auctions signal that the buyer is indifferent among suppliers, other than the price received.</li></ul>

Importance of Relationship

<ul><li>Auctions are a much faster process than negotiations.</li><li>If there is a specific window of opportunity to sell, or the asset is deteriorating as time passes, auctions are preferable.</li><li>Auctions are faster and riskier. They sometimes “bust,” in which nobody shows up; or, even worse, only one bidder shows up.</li><li>Negotiations are safer bets. They allow you to test the water as you make your way to a better outcome.</li></ul>

Factors To Consider: Seller Profile

<ul><li>Broad-based processes like auctions are difficult to keep secret.</li><li>Negotiations are much more private.</li><li>A frequent concern during M&A deals is to broaden the search process in the sale of a company for fear that the employees will find out, start looking for new jobs, and the value of the company drops.</li><li>Transparency: The appearance of a level playing field among bidders.</li><li>Auctions are a more transparent process than private negotiations.</li></ul>

Factors To Consider: Contextual Factors

Open outcry auction: Bidders know the high bid at all times, and have the option of beating it.Sealed bid auction: Bidders submit written bids and do not know what others bid, or (often) how many bidders there are before the winner is revealed.There are four factors to consider here:<ul><li>The number of potential bidders.</li><li>The degree to which bidders’ valuations are “affiliated”.</li><li>The degree of bidder risk aversion.</li><li>The need to deter collusion among bidders.</li></ul>

Open Outcry Vs Sealed Bid

<ul><li>The minimum number of initial bidders in an open-outcry auction is five or six</li><li>Less than five bidders and better to conduct a sealed auction where a lack of transparency means bidders may bid against themselves.</li><li>A sealed bid auction can create the perception of competition even when there isn’t.</li></ul>

Number of Potential Bidders

Winner’s curse: The feeling that you overpaid simply because you were the highest bidder.<ul><li>Reflect on all the costs and benefits of winning or losing the auction in calculating your reservation value.</li><li>Costs often include much more than price. Could be your reputation, or competitive advantage in the marketplace.</li><li>The only scenario that matters is the one where you win. Think to yourself, “Am I comfortable paying this price, even if it turns out that I over-paid?”</li></ul>

Playing The Game As Process Taker: The Winners Curse

<ul><li>The key is to bid high enough to win, but low enough that you preserve as much profit as possible from the deal.</li><li>Determine how your chances of winning increase with your bid.</li><li>Choose the bid that maximizes your expected profit = Probability x Profit</li></ul>

Bidding in Sealed Bid Situations

<ul><li>Continue bidding up to your full reservation value.</li><li>Whenever common value plays a role, bidders should rationally “update” their reservation value during the course of the bidding. E.g. the layman bidder taking cues from an expert with insider knowledge.</li></ul>Three factors fuel “competitive arousal:” intense rivalry among bidders, time pressure, and the presence of an audience.Avoid this by:<ul><li>Writing down your reservation value</li><li>Ask yourself, “What do I know now that I didn’t know at the beginning of the auction?” If you don’t know anything new, then you should drop out of the auction.</li></ul>

Bidding in Open-Outcry Situations

All about negotiauctiong: The crossover between negotiation and auctioning.

"Previous edition published under the title Negotiauctions: new dealmaking strategies for a competitive marketplace"--Title page verso.

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Marketing & Sales

“Packed with transformative insights, Dealmaking will help a new generation of business leaders get to yes.”—William Ury, coauthor of Getting to Yes Informed by meticulous research, field experience, and classroom-tested strategies, Dealmaking offers essential insights for anyone involved in buying or selling everything from cars to corporations. Leading business scholar Guhan Subramanian provides a lively tour of both negotiation and auction theory, then takes an in-depth look at his own hybrid theory, outlining three specific strategies readers can use in complex dealmaking situations. Along the way, he examines case studies as diverse as buying a house, haggling over the rights to a TV show, and participating in the auction of a multimillion-dollar company. Based on broad research and detailed case studies, Dealmaking brings together negotiation and auction strategies for the first time, providing the jargon-free, empirically sound advice professionals need to close the deal. Originally published in hardcover under the title Negotiauctions.

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The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world are invented. So instead of continuing to live a disempowering narrative about how the world is against you, invent an empowering story that provides you meaning and enhances the quality of your life.As it’s all invented anyway, so we might as well invent a story or a framework of meaning that enhances our quality of life and the life of those around us.

It’s All Invented Anyways!

Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.If you’re stuck with a seemingly unsolvable problem, flip the script. Try to see the problem through a new lens. More often than not, the problem will vanish and new opportunities will shine through.

Flip The Script

<ul><li>When you’re in a bad place, go through the above series of questions. Start moving your mind through a pattern that will help you get to a new set of beliefs and choices.</li><li>When you start seeing the world as a place of abundance, instead of a place of scarcity, you can begin to experience the emotions that make being a human so amazing – joy, awe, passion, and compassion.</li></ul>

Choose Your Starting Place

Resources and opportunities flourish when you generously include people in your passion for life. In orienting yourself towards abundance, you open up a new world of possibility in which you take bigger risks, pursue your dreams, and accept that you cannot always predict the outcome.You may give away short-term profits in pursuit of a bigger dream; you may take a long view without being able to predict the outcome. In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

Just Take Right Action And Let Life Unfold

Imagine that you graded all of the people in your life. Think about the way the grade you give influences your willingness to listen and appreciate that person. You’ll notice that giving people an “A,” instead of a lower grade, will provide you with a greater capacity to listen, understand, and appreciate that person. So instead of judging quickly and jumping to potentially false conclusions, give everyone you meet an A to start.

Give people an A Grade

Your success and fear of failure go hand-in-hand. Instead of being paralyzed by your fears, find ways to overcome them. When you can do this, you can use your <a href="https://calvinrosser.com/how-to-use-fear-as-fuel-for-growth/">fear as fuel for your growth</a>.If you want to give back, don’t worry too much about the outcome. Start giving back, and you’ll find that your contribution operates like a pebble in a pond. It will send positive ripples in all kinds of unexpected directions.

Success And Fear

Too many people spend their time calculating their moves and believing the world is a scarce, scary, and cruel place. Often, our calculations are related to our childhood, where we form habits based on what we are recognized for. These habits carry into adulthood, and many of them are limiting beliefs and practices that prevent us from operating at our highest point of contribution.

We Are Living Based On Obsolete Calculations

Instead of living under the illusion that you can control all of the outcomes in your life, adopt a more fluid perspective. Imagine that your journey in the river of life comes with all kinds of joy and challenges. Be open to all of those experiences. And instead of resisting the river and missing the joy, just float down it gracefully.

The River

Being present isn’t the same as accepting the negative parts of your situation in a resigned manner. You can’t eliminate the negative in your life fully. But you can meet negative emotions with less resistance, and in doing so, you can be more present with your reality and more easily let go of these experiences that will certainly pass.

Presence Is Positive, Resigned Acceptance Is Not

The more attention you shine on a particular subject, the more evidence of it will grow.If you focus on the negative in your life, it will flourish. But if you instead focus on the positive parts of your experience that you can be grateful for, you will find that life is a lot lighter than the alternative path.

What You Focus On, Grows

The Life Force for humankind is, perhaps, nothing more or less than the passionate energy to connect, express, and communicate. Enrollment is that life force at work, lighting sparks from person to person, scattering light in all directions. Sometimes the sparks ignite a blaze; sometimes they pass quietly, magically, almost imperceptibly, from one another to another.

Your Life Force 

When you accept responsibility for everything in your life, you are free to choose an empowering response that will allow you to conquer challenges and embrace opportunities.
Gracing yourself with responsibility for everything that happens in your life leaves your spirit whole, and leaves you free to choose again.

Take Responsibility

Setting a vision for yourself can help you separate from the local and day to day noise. It can give you a guiding light to keep working towards.A vision releases us from the weight and confusion of local problems and concerns and allows us to see the long clear line. A vision becomes a framework for possibility when it meets certain criteria that distinguish it from the objectives of the downward spiral.

The Power of A Vision

12 incredibly helpful practices from a conductor and a psychotherapist that will transform the way you see the world and fuel your personal and professional success.

An updated edition outlines 12 strategies for discovering creative approaches to goal fulfillment, combining the insights of a Boston Philharmonic conductor and a relationship psychotherapist while sharing inspirational stories, parables and anecdotes.

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Motivation & Inspiration

In their playing you hear not only precision, color and balance, but thunder, lightning and the language of the heart. This is what the Boston Globe said about a performance by conductor Benjamin Zander with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, but it could apply equally to the Zanders' inspirational book, the product of a synthesis of the diverse worlds of the symphony orchestra and cutting-edge psychology. The Art of Possibility offers a set of breakthrough practices for creativity in all human enterprises. Infused with the energy of their dynamic partnership, the book joins together Ben's extraordinary talent as a mover and shaker, teacher, and communicator, with Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for creating innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. In lively counterpoint, the authors provide us with a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of our lives. The Zanders' deceptively simple practices are based on two premises: that life is composed as a story ("it's all invented") and that, with new definitions, much more is possible than people ordinarily think. The book shifts our perspective with uplifting stories, parables, and anecdotes from the authors' personal experiences as well as from famous and everyday heroes. From "Giving an A," to the mysterious "Rule Number 6," to "Leading from Any Chair"-the account of Ben's stunning realization that the conductor/leader's power is directly linked to how much greatness he is willing to grant to others-each practice offers an opportunity for personal and organizational transformation. The Art of Possibility provides a life-altering approach to fulfilling dreams large and small. The Zanders invite us all to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world.Rosamund Stone Zander is a family therapist and a landscape painter. Benjamin Zander is the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. Based on the principles developed through the authors' unique partnership, Mr. Zander gives presentations to managers and executives around the world and Ms. Zander conducts workshops for organizations on practicing the art of possibility.

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Work is a part of life. But most people don’t want work to be their entire life; they want time and energy to devote to their job and to their personal life—like their family, hobbies, and personal responsibilities. And generally, there are two ways to achieve that scenario—work-life balance or work-life integration.Work-life balance and work-life integration can both create space for your work and your personal life—without one overtaking the other. But each takes a very different path to get there.

Work And Life: The Premise

<ul><li>Work-life balance(WLB) is about creating clear, firm boundaries between your work and your life. </li><li>Work-life balance is focused on keeping life and work separately.</li><li>The concept of work-life balance has more structure and is more familiar to most.</li><li>Work-life integration(WLI), however, blurs the line between work and life. “Work-life integration focuses on blending both personal and professional responsibilities.</li><li>If you’re embracing the work-life integration model, you’re free to tackle personal tasks during work hours—and vice versa. </li></ul>

Difference Between Work-Life Balance And Work-Life Integration

<ul><li>Neither one of these perspectives holds more benefit across the board because people are different.</li><li>The model that will hold the most benefits will vary from person to person.</li></ul>Generally, people fall into one of two categories: segmentors or integrators.<ul><li>Segmentors fear that, without strong time and space boundaries, one side will take over the other...eliminating the balance they seek.</li><li>Integrators prefer fluid or porous boundaries between work and home.</li></ul>

The Pros And Cons Of WLB and WLI

It allows you to devote your full attention to your work or your life at any given time.When you're at work, you're really at work; you're not thinking about the things that you need to get done around the house or trying to squeeze in a trip to the grocery store in between meetings-which can help you be more effective and productive.And when you're done with work you can spend time with your loved ones.

Benefits Of Work Life Balance

<ul><li>Flexibility.</li><li>Work-life integration allows employees to coordinate their schedules and responsibilities in a more productive way.</li><li>Integrating work and life is not a choice.</li><li>People who embrace the integration model may be better equipped to succeed in today’s increasingly remote and hybrid work environment.</li></ul>

Benefits Of Work-Life Integration

<ul><li>The purpose of choosing one or the other is to find a sense of harmony between your work and your life.</li><li>Whatever option you choose, remember that the purpose is to help you lower stress, become more efficient, and increase your personal well-being.</li></ul>

Now You Decide

When it comes to work-life balance vs. work-life integration, it’s all about which model works best for you—and which gives you the work experience (and life experience!) that you’re looking for.

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Work-Life Balance Vs. Work-Life Integration—Which Holds More Benefits?

<ul><li>Researchers and philosophers identify two types of psychological well-being, which can be summarized as the purposeful and the pleasurable. </li><li>Previous research has already established that, on average, wealthy people experience happier, more meaningful lives. </li><li>A new study asks a more nuanced question: Does meaning predict happiness, regardless of wealth? The results suggest that meaning is less important to happiness for wealthy people. </li><li>More importantly, meaning may be extra important for people without much money.</li></ul>

Key Takeaways

Researchers and philosophers differentiate between two types of psychological wellbeing: eudaimonic (the meaningful, purposeful, or significant) and hedonic (the pleasurable or enjoyable). The latter aligns with what most people term “happiness.” To understand the distinction, imagine working hard on an important life goal. This might feel meaningful, but unpleasant. On the other hand, taking heroin might feel meaningless, but enjoyable.

Defining Meaning and Happiness

Meaning and happiness are rarely totally separate. In general, meaningful experiences make people feel happy, and vice versa. For example, spending time with friends, buying gifts for others, and celebrating life milestones can be both meaningful and enjoyable. Finding meaning in life is therefore usually a good way to boost happiness.

Finding Meaning Boosts Happiness

To the possible disappointment of anyone hoping to indulge in some schadenfreude, prior research establishes that, on average, <a href="https://nobascholar.com/chapters/34/download.pdf">wealthy people experience happier</a> and <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2016976118">more meaningful</a> lives than their lower-income counterparts. This is probably because money can buy both meaning and happiness, so long as you <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1057740811000209">spend it in the right way</a> — for instance, by purchasing experiences, time with loved ones, or gifts for others.

Money Does Buy Happiness

On one hand, meaning might be especially important for wealthy people’s happiness, since all of their basic needs are met and they have the resources to pursue grand, meaningful experiences. On the other hand, meaning may be less important, because it is easier for the wealthy to pursue happiness in other ways, like fancy trips, fun cars, and big parties.

The Paradox Of Wealth

The wealthier someone is, the less meaning affects their happiness levels. Importantly, this does not mean that high-income people reported less overall meaning or happiness — their levels were about as high, or even higher, than those of lower-income participants. But the study found that meaning was less important to their happiness.

Study 1: The Americans

Once again, the correlation between meaning and happiness became smaller as wealth increased.This pattern held in 10 out of 11 world regions, including Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

Study 2: The World

For wealth status, participants rated their socioeconomic status using the MacArthur social ladder, which asks participants where they believe they stand compared to others considering their money, education, and jobs.  Once again, the higher someone reported being on the socio-economic ladder, the less meaning predicted their happiness.

Study 3: Different Questions

One of the downsides of large survey studies, of course, is that the researchers cannot control every relevant factor that could affect the results. In particular, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6793(199701)14:1%3C71::AID-MAR5%3E3.0.CO;2-L">age and religiosity</a> are correlated with meaning and income, making them potential confounding factors. Additionally, income might affect how much meaning and happiness vary — in other words, how much their scores can be expected to spread out. This can affect statistical analyses.

Confounding Factors

In short, data from more than 500,000 people suggest that meaning is less important to happiness for wealthy people. This does not mean that wealthy people are struggling to find meaning: Both their meaning and happiness levels are on par with, or even higher than, their lower-income counterparts.  Perhaps wealthy people simply do not need meaning to be happy. Their resources minimize the stress of meeting daily needs like paying bills or affording food. They can also afford the kinds of purchases that boost happiness, like fun experiences and enjoyable hobbies.

The Findings: The Rich Are Busy Being Rich

The more important takeaway is that meaning may be extra important for <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613507286">people without much money</a>. Compared to their wealthier counterparts, poor people suffer high rates of <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hec.1011">depression and other mental health</a> problems. Incorporating meaning-making into one’s life may be a free way to improve happiness.

Meaning Is A Currency Of The Poor

Philosophers identify two different kinds of happiness. Research finds that having money makes it easier to attain both of them.

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Money & Investments

Can't buy me meaning? Money cuts a quicker path to happiness

Sleep discipline is something you have to be good at, conscious of, and something you can't let slip.We only have so much energy for our work, our relationships, for ourselves.Getting 7-8 hours of sleep every night does not negatively affect their output, it contributes crucially to their best work.

The Sleep Routine

Life is short and if we practice bad habits, if we don’t take care of ourselves, we will surely shorten that time.Life is short and if we practice bad habits, if we don’t take care of ourselves, if we aren’t willing to change, we will surely shorten that time.

Beware Burnout

The number of people who can survive on five hours of sleep or less without any impairment expressed as a percent of the population is zero.If not zero, close enough to zero that we can assume it doesn’t include you.

You Are Not an Exception

Do not use your phone at night by not having it with you in the first place.This means you won’t know if you get a text message or an email. It means you won’t be tempted to scroll through social media. It means you won’t be staring at a screen that is artificially forcing us awake, thereby masking our natural tiredness at night. This also keeps people awake for longer, and makes falling asleep more difficult.

Sleep With Your Phone In A Different Room

<ul><li>The mornings are the most productive hours of the day-before the interruptions, before distractions, before the rest of the world gets up and going too.</li><li>When you get up with the sun, you are more likely to wind down with it - we are made to follow the rhythm of the sun.</li></ul>

Wake Up Early

The goal of exercise is simply to "tire the body" so we can later enjoy a heavy sleep.A sedentary life does not help with sound sleep, so make it a rule to do strenuous exercise every day.

Strenuous Exercise Every Day

When you're burned out, when you're exhausted, and when you want to veg out on the couch, that's when you need the extra discipline to get up and go to bed.Morning routines are great, but a bedtime routine is important too.

Just Go To Sleep

<ul><li>Read before bed to relax your mind.</li><li>Spend the last half-hour of the day in communion with good books and spiritual texts.</li></ul>Journal Before Bed<ul><li>A great night's sleep requires a mental state of restful rest, a state of clear, untroubled mind.</li><li>Write down whatever comes to your mind at night, just to get it out of you. it will help you sleep better.</li><li>Let not sleep come until you have measured up each daytime deed: 'Where did I go wrong? What did I do? And what duty's left undone?</li></ul>

Read Or Write Before Bed

<ul><li>No matter what the problem is, the solution is often a consistent routine.</li><li>Ask a sleep expert if you are not sleeping well, a consistent routine will be the answer.</li><li>The best thing you can do for your sleep is be consistent, seven days a week.</li></ul>

Be Consistent

<ul><li>Naps are restorative, especially as you get older.</li><li>Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death.</li><li>If you want to have a good and long life, sleep now, not later.</li><li>If sleep has all these benefits, if it is literally life-saving, then it makes sense to invest in it.</li><li>Maybe that's buying a better mattress. Maybe it's a sound machine or blackout shades. Whatever it is, figure out what gets you better sleep and consider it a hell of a deal.</li></ul>

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People thinking about forming good habits often get stuck. They get preoccupied with a question that feels hopeful. But it’s actually hollow inside. In particular, looking for the answer to: How many days does it take to form a habit?There is no point.If you want to know how many days does it take to form a habit, here’s what the experts say:According to a study done by the European Journal of Social Psychology. For a person to form a new habit, and for this habit to become a kind of automatic behaviour, it takes anywhere from 18 to 254 days. Commonly, the number is 66 days

The Duration Of Habit Formation

According to productivity experts, if a person commits to doing something – anything – for 21 days straight. This thing will supposedly become automatic behaviour that doesn’t require any effort. This is not true. For example, if you want to lose weight, you should focus on exercising and carefully considering what you eat, not that if three weeks are over!

The 21 Day Myth

<ul><li>There's something powerful about knowing an end exists</li><li>Having a particular end date where things will supposedly become easier means being able to convince yourself that you can push through that number of days</li><li>If our initial conviction was that things will now be easier - automatic even - when we hit a particular date, we'll be quite disappointed when things remain hard</li></ul>

The Incentive Behind How Many Days Does It Take to Form a Habit

In a famous book from the 1960s, Dr. Maxwell Malt said: "These, and many other commonly observed phenomena tend to show that it requires a minimum of about 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to jell."21-days seems reasonable. Easy. Tweetable. Doable. Pretty much everyone can persist in doing something for 21 days.

How The Myth Took Formation

<ul><li>Your value system takes a drastic turn when you keep practising an activity you want to form as a habit.</li><li>Embarking on a habit-formation journey gives you the opportunity to figure out what you really value.</li><li>Persisting in doing something allows you to see which things are important to you.</li></ul>

The Real Value: Get Started

<ul><li>The essential thing is figuring out what tasks are worth keeping and what aren't.</li><li>When you stick to a certain activity for 21 days or more, you give yourself the opportunity to find if this new thing is valuable enough - for you - to keep doing it.</li><li>Regularly hitting the gym allows you to see how this activity can positively impact your body, mind, and life in general.</li></ul>

The Bottom Line

Asking how many days does It take to form a habit is focusing on the wrong things. It's not about days. It's about figuring out what you value.

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In 2022, the world will likely hit a momentous milestone-a population of eight billion. The dramatic increase in the world's human population is relatively new. For thousands of years, the world population would live in a mid-sized city today. But knowing how many humans came before us is a question demographers like Toshiko Kaneda and Carl Haub have tried to answer.

The world's human population in 2022

Quantifying all of humanity requires a firm starting date for when humans became human. For this exercise, the two demographers chose 190,000 BCE as the cutoff. The demographers estimate that 109 billion people have lived and died over the course of 192,000 years. So adding the people alive today, we get 117 billion people that have ever lived. That means that for every person alive today, there are about 14 people who are not.

The combined human population

This impactful hour glass visualization shows all of humanity, including the 7% of humans who are alive today

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Whether you're just starting or building your career, you've undoubtedly faced new challenges that no textbook or classroom could have prepared you for. Using a simple set of core principles can help you start and build your career.

Career Success Guide

Treat your career lifecycle as a company.<ul><li>You start as a high-growth startup.</li><li>You grow into a bigger business.</li><li>You IPO and are a public company.</li></ul> At each phase, you will encounter a variety of difficult and new decisions. Traditionally, people have turned to mentorship to guide them through the uncharted waters. A better approach is building a personal board of 5 -10 advisors comprising of individuals (not family) from varying backgrounds willing to give you raw feedback.

Build a Personal Board of Advisors

The “frog” is a complex or annoying task your boss doesn’t want to do. However, that frog is your opportunity to get ahead early in your career. <ol><li>Observe your boss.</li><li>Figure out what they hate doing.</li><li>Teach yourself to do it.</li><li>Take it off their plate.</li></ol>

Swallow the Frog for Your Boss

Establish a decentralised friend group to learn from and grow with. Interacting with this group will expose you to new ideas, industries, and opportunities. Features of a decentralised friend group: <ul><li>Unconnected to other groups</li><li>Different backgrounds</li><li>Range of experience sets</li><li>Novel perspectives</li></ul>

Create a Decentralized Growth Tribe

If you can sell, you'll always make it. Selling means learning to tell a compelling, convincing story. The more you progress in any field, the more of your job becomes sales: <ul><li>You sell yourself when you want a company to hire you.</li><li>You sell your idea when you want investors to back you.</li><li>You sell your vision when you want customers to pay you.</li><li>You sell your culture when you want employees to join you.</li></ul>

Learn to Sell

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