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Looking for a motivation boost for a big task ahead?
Mario Peshev
November 02, 2024
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3 Ideas For Better Habits
The Art of Deep Listening
Author and journalist, Charles Duhigg, on the power of engaged listening.
"The best listeners aren’t just listening,” said Margaret Clark, the Yale psychologist. “They’re triggering emotions by asking questions, expressing their own emotions, doing things that prompt the other person to say something real."
Source: Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection Unlocking Voter Participation
Nobel laureate in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, on influencing behavior.
"It turns out that if you ask people, the day before the election, whether they intend to vote, you can increase the probability of their voting by as much as 25 percent!"
Source: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Embracing AI in Everyday Life
Professor and author, Ethan Mollick, on leveraging AI’s potential.
"You should try inviting AI to help you in everything you do, barring legal or ethical barriers. As you experiment, you may find that AI help can be satisfying, or frustrating, or useless, or unnerving. But you aren’t just doing this for help alone; familiarizing yourself with AI’s capabilities allows you to better understand how it can assist you—or threaten you and your job."
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Explore how to get into the right mental and physical state for peak performance. This article emphasizes that different situations require varying levels of intensity, from high energy to calm focus. The key is to find what works for you through experimentation and develop tools to adjust your mindset accordingly.
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Today I Learned: The movie "Gravity" was more expensive to produce than the entire Indian Mars mission. (Source)
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