Coping with Career Regret - Priscilla Claman. By Priscilla Claman | 12:00 PM September 21, 2012 Fall is a time when career regrets tug more strongly than during the laid-back summer months.
New jobs appear on job boards, and many colleagues and friends move on to new careers or go off to graduate school. If you aren’t moving with them, you can become vulnerable to “should have” thinking. The should haves are hard to turn off. Why Success Breeds Success: The Science of "The Winner Effect" By Maria Popova Biochemistry and the self-reinforcing upward spiral of winning.
The past century of science has demonstrated the pivotal role of biochemistry in such human phenomena as love, attraction, and lust. But to consider that individual neurobiology might impact things as rational and complex as, say, stock markets seems rather radical. Yet that’s precisely what trader-turned-neuroscientist John Coates explores in The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust (public library) — an ambitious look at how body chemistry affects high-stakes financial trading, in which Coates sets out to construct — and deconstruct — a “universal biology of risk-taking.” Coates explains:
FRANCE 24 The Interview - Full interview with Woody Allen. 6 Ways To Tell Someone You Like Them. While it may seem like the simple act of telling someone you have feelings for them, and might be interested in dating them, is just that: an easy straightforward task, nothing could be further from the truth.
For many — those of us who do not put “unrbidled charisma around love interests” in the special skills section of our résumé — we have to find new ways to go about letting the special someone know. Here, a few particularly effective tactics: 1. Completely ignore them. If you are absolutely head-over-heels for someone, what better way to let them know than by refusing to acknowledge their existence? What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day. Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks?
It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room every day. You should too. The first hour of the workday goes a bit differently for Craig Newmark of Craigslist, David Karp of Tumblr, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, career writer (and Fast Company blogger) Brian Tracy, and others, and they’ll tell you it makes a big difference. Here are the first items on their daily to-do list. Don’t Check Your Email for the First Hour.
Tumblr founder David Karp will "try hard" not to check his email until 9:30 or 10 a.m., according to an Inc. profile of him. What Happens When You Live Abroad. A very dependable feature of people who live abroad is finding them huddled together in bars and restaurants, talking not just about their homelands, but about the experience of leaving.
And strangely enough, these groups of ex-pats aren’t necessarily all from the same home countries, often the mere experience of trading lands and cultures is enough to link them together and build the foundations of a friendship. How to Get Doping Out of Sports. WHY does an athlete dope?
I know why, because I faced that choice. My life on a bike started in middle school. Thirty Is Not The New Twenty: Why Your 20's Matter. Our 20s are the defining decade of adulthood. 80% of life's most defining moments take place by about age 35. 2/3 of lifetime wage growth happens during the first ten years of a career. More than half of Americans are married or are dating or living with their future partner by age 30. Personality can change more during our 20s than at any other decade in life. Female fertility peaks at 28. The brain caps off its last major growth spurt. When it comes to adult development, 30 is not the new 20.
The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay. Voltaire famously lamented. This tension between anticipation and impatience, indeed, seems central to the human condition. In ( ), former investment banker turned writer shines a spotlight on it by bringing together four previously examined grand questions — what is time , how we decide , why we procrastinate , and what it means to be human — through hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with prominent thinkers across psychology, behavioral economics, philosophy, social science, anthropology, and more.
What emerges is an important, if counterintuitive, perspective on delay in a culture obsessed with efficiency, speediness, and productivity that bleeds into the hasty and the rash. The 'Busy' Trap. Anxiety: We worry.
A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!”