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Jordan Peterson is Canada's most infamous intellectual. How to Explain the Experience of Lean - Lean Leadership Center - Lean Leadership Center. Diary of a concussion - The Verge - Pocket. I opened my eyes to see a clear blue sky and two men leaning over me to put a brace around my neck.

Diary of a concussion - The Verge - Pocket

I don’t know if I was already on the stretcher or if I was still on the pavement, but there are plenty of things I don’t remember. As I would later find out, I had a brain injury. Was I badly hurt, I asked. I felt as though someone had smashed a two-by-four across the entire left half of my face. The two men on either side of me carefully lifted my upper body to finish with the brace, giving me a view of my legs. How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive - The Atlantic - Pocket. These early pens failed not in their mechanical design, but in their choice of ink.

How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive - The Atlantic - Pocket

3 Body Language Mistakes Leaders Make – LeAnne Lagasse. 5 Scientific Tricks to Fall Asleep Fast When You Can’t Sleep, According to a Neuroscientist. Nearly two-thirds of adults in developed nations fail to meet the nightly eight hours of sleep recommended by the World Health Organisation.

5 Scientific Tricks to Fall Asleep Fast When You Can’t Sleep, According to a Neuroscientist.

According to Matthew Walker, sleep expert, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and neuroscientist, driving while drowsy is more dangerous than drunk driving. [1] Sleep deprivation may also affect male and female fertility. Walker notes that men who sleep five hours a night have significantly smaller testicles than those who sleep eight hours or more. And, they tend to have levels of testosterone similar to a man ten years older. [2] Sleep deprivation also increases the risk of cancer, memory loss, depression, anxiety, obesity, cancer, heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease and early death.

The Biggest Wastes Of Time We Regret When We Get Older - Lifehacker - Pocket. We spend a lot of energy looking for shortcuts to save time, and sure, those shortcuts add up.

The Biggest Wastes Of Time We Regret When We Get Older - Lifehacker - Pocket

But when I look back, my biggest time regrets aren't spending too much time on Twitter or mismanaging my daily tasks. Those are bad habits, but there are bigger, more systematic time wasters that have really gotten in the way. Fixing these will free up a massive amount of time and energy. Not Asking for Help My first week on my first job out of university, my boss handed me a huge spreadsheet.

3 Change Management Strategies to Lead Transformation - Education Reimagined - Education Reimagined. Our moral obligation is not to stop the future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

3 Change Management Strategies to Lead Transformation - Education Reimagined - Education Reimagined

There is no shortage of ideas for transforming the education system. What Happens When You Spend a Year Using Science to Improve Your Brain - The Verge - Pocket. Illustration James Bareham / The Verge Here are two things that are both true.

What Happens When You Spend a Year Using Science to Improve Your Brain - The Verge - Pocket

Neuroplasticity is real — that is, the brain really can change and learn and improve based on experience. And there’s little evidence that brain-training games are any better than placebo. “So,” wondered science journalist Caroline Williams, “if brain training isn’t the way to apply it, what should we be doing?” Williams is the author of My Plastic Brain: One Woman’s Yearlong Journey to Discover if Science Can Improve Her Mind. The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest Work - James Clear - Pocket. Theodor Geisel.

The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest Work - James Clear - Pocket

Courtesy of Dr. Leading with Empathy – StashAway Product & Design. “Culture eats strategy for lunch” I’m a big fan of the “High Resolution” design leadership interview series.

Leading with Empathy – StashAway Product & Design

Unlike most other designer interviews that only focus on tools and craft, this series draws attention to many higher-level insights surrounding product design and design thinking — which is one the reasons that make it particularly interesting to me. Teachers at Work: Designing Schools Where Teachers and… Read our new report “Teachers at Work: Designing Schools Where Teachers and Students Thrive”, an analysis of the research surrounding teacher work environment in schools and the most promising collaborative opportunities for addressing these issues.

Teachers at Work: Designing Schools Where Teachers and…

Schools are the engines of economic and social mobility, where the virtues required for citizenship are wrestled with and practiced, and where the foundations of a robust and dynamic citizenship, democracy, and economy are nurtured. Teachers are the heart, soul, and muscle of our schools. Research has pointed time and time again to teachers as the strongest in-school influence on student learning and development. But too often, we fall victim to the misimpression that schools must choose either student learning or teacher learning, when in fact student learning and teacher learning are interwoven and mutually reinforcing. Introductory Sentence Diagramming For Dummies.

The Ten Sentence Patterns Diagrammed: Here is what all ten sentence patterns look like diagrammed: Here are what the sample sentences look like completed for each sentence pattern: Note that the direct object line after the VP line on the Main Line for Sentence 7 is straight.

Introductory Sentence Diagramming For Dummies

Comparing it to the sentences before it, additional lines after the VP are slanted… The Spartan Way: An Introduction. Podcast #434: Legendary Coach John Wooden's Secrets of Leadership. The Spartan Way: Manhood Is a Journey. Sleep Your Way to the Top – Member Feature Stories. Don’t Follow Your Passion. Pay Attention to What you Find Engaging Instead. The advice to follow your passion makes for great commencement speeches, self-help books, and Instagram memes. It sounds nice in theory but doesn’t translate in practice. Why Is Everyone So Lonely These Days? – HeartSupport. Sleep Your Way to the Top – Member Feature Stories. Happiness is for animals; Meaning is for humans – The Polymath Project.

I’ve raved several times about Happiness by Design, a book on happiness by economist Paul Dolan. The book taught me to separate happiness and meaningfulness when thinking about human well-being. In Visualizing the Meaning of Life: The Drip Coffee Model, I explored the idea that meaning-in-life comes from having enough meaningful activities in your life. But I didn’t explore questions like “Where does meaning come from?” Or “What makes an activity meaningful?” We Get The Daddies We Deserve. You’re Not Meant to Do What You Love – Member Feature Stories. An Open Letter About Female Coaches. If You Want To Become An Influential Thought Leader, Live By These 3 Principles. How to Stop Procrastinating Using the 70% Rule – The Mission. The Daily Routine Backed by Science that Will Make You a Happier Person.

Proven Steps to the Most Productive Day You’ll Ever Have. Optimize sleep and get up early. This Therapist Is Trying To Cure ‘Nice Guys’ A college athlete's greatest challenge. 5Save. Cinder Block (CMU) Offset Smoker. A Bottle of Pellegrino and the One Lesson I’ll Never Forget That Seth Godin Taught Me. Today’s Problem With Masculinity Isn’t What You Think. Put Yourself in Your Customers Shoes – Gary Vaynerchuk – Medium. The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor - InstantEncore. Earth Temperature Timeline. On Finding Your Purpose: An Extraordinary Letter by Hunter S. Thompson. □ Beginners: How To Start Building an Audience on Medium (From Scratch)? — The Coffeelicious. Benjamin Sledge — Profile. VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year. How to Design Think Your Personal Life.