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The Key to Career Satisfaction, The Excitement of Failure, Master Your Habits

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3 Ideas For Better Habits

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Master Decision Making

Former professional poker player, Annie Duke, on the importance of learning from experience.

"A necessary part of becoming a better decision-maker is learning from experience. Experience contains the lessons for improving future decisions. Resulting (a mental shortcut in which we use the quality of an outcome to figure out the quality of a decision) causes you to learn the wrong lessons."

2

Rethink Happiness

Renowned psychologist, Adam Grant, on career searching.

"When it comes to careers, instead of searching for the job where we’ll be happiest, we might be better off pursuing the job where we expect to learn and contribute the most."

Source: Adam Grant

3

An Interesting Take on Failure

Master storyteller Truman Capote, on the balance of failure and success.

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

Source: Truman Capote

Productivity Tools and Resources

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SPONSOR

How To Reach Targeted, High Value Audiences

Sponsorships aren’t just for big businesses anymore.

Earlier this month, Scott Oldford delivered a live workshop to over 640 entrepreneurs to show how a smaller business can use sponsorships to outperform their current paid traffic ROI.

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Master Your Habits, Stay on Track

Streaks is the to-do list app that helps you form good habits. Don't break the chain, or your streak resets to zero days.

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Brain Food

Today I Learned: The richest 20 percent of people worldwide take 80 percent of all flights. (​Source​)

Science: People who drink two or three cups of coffee a day have lower blood pressure than those who drink just one cup or none at all. (​Source​)


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