Personal Development
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Getting things done
✍️ ❝Your head is for having ideas – not for holding them!❞ 📖 GETTING THINGS DONE will teach you to:➡︎ Apply the “DO IT, DELEGATE IT, DEFER IT, DROP IT” rule to get your in-box empty 😓➡︎ REASSESS GOALS and stay focused in changing situations 🧐➡︎ Plan and unstick projects 🔭➡︎ OVERCOME FEELINGS of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed 😵💫➡︎ FEEL FINE about what you’re not doing ☺️ This David Allen’s book was hailed as “the definitivebusiness self-help book of the decade”🎖 (Time) when it wasfirst published. Allen’s premise is simple: OUR PRODUCTIVITY IS DIRECTLYPROPORTIONAL TO OUR ABILITY TO RELAX 🧘🏻♀️ ⚠️ Only when our minds are clear 🧠 and…
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Workers are on the move
➜ WORKERS are on the move 🏃🏻‼️ The top three reasons workers QUIT THEIR JOBS are: 📍Uncaring LEADERS 😒 📍Unsustainable EXPECTATIONS of work PERFORMANCE 🚀 📍Lack of CAREER advancement 🎢 And for those who returned to traditional employment, these workers were primarily lured back by WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY 👩🏻💻, with ADEQUATE COMPENSATION 🛍 as a secondary reason. 🤔 Are these reasons different from what they have traditionally been? After pandemic situation, may have the desire for JOB FLEXIBILITY accelerated the other ones?” 🧐 Graph: US Data from McKinsey.
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The siku
🎶 The Siku is a traditional Andean pan flute (panpipe). It is played across the Andes, but is especially associated with Aymara-speaking populations living around Lake Titicaca ⛰ A standardized siku have TWO ROWS OF PIPES 🤓; the IRA row and the ARKA row. 👨🏼🏫 According to local folklore, the ira row corresponds to the male principle and the arka to the female. In the olden days, it was common for TWO PEOPLE TO PLAY TOGETHER, with one playing the ira notes and the other one arka notes to achieve a complete scale🙏🏻 🤔 This is, instead of joining both rows of tubes they give each half to two different musicians to play as…
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Components of lying
In a study of the COMPONENTS OF LYING 🤥, HBS professor DEEPAK MALHOTRA found that, on average, liars use MORE WORDS than truth tellers and use FAR MORE THIRD-PERSON PRONOUNS. They start talking about him, her, it, one, they, and their RATHER THAN I, in order to put SOME DISTANCE between THEMSELVES and THE LIE 😓 And they discovered that liars tend to speak in MORE COMPLEX SENTENCES in an attempt to win over their suspicious counterparts 😵💫 The researchers dubbed this the PINOCCHIO EFFECT 🤥 because, just like Pinocchio’s nose, THE NUMBER OF WORDS GREW ALONG WITH THE LIE ✖️ People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about…
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Give problems
MY MIND REBELS AT STAGNATION. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or THE MOST INTRICATE ANALYSIS, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world. — Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
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Circumstances
Toni NADAL, coach of the great tennis player RAFAEL Nadal 🎾, explained very well what is the value of BEING AWARE OF CIRCUMSTANCES: ❝While in Monte Carlo we had to play the final against FEDERER and RAFAEL asked me: – How do you see today’s game? 🕵🏻♂️” – 😓Well, I see it complicated. Federer has the drive better than yours, the backhand is also better than yours, the volley is also better than yours, his serve is obviously better than yours…” – 😒 Stop, stop, what morale are you giving me to go out on the court.” – 🤔If you want, I can fool you but Federer won’t fool you…
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Photographies
👨🏼🏫 On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students 📸 into TWO GROUPS. 🟢Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the “QUANTITY” group. They would be graded solely on the AMOUNT of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the NUMBER OF PHOTOS submitted by each student. One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on. 🔵Everyone on the right side of the room would be in the “QUALITY” group. They would be graded only on the EXCELLENCE…
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Habits
❝A good start is half the battle.❞ – Plato 🏛 In order to make habits ‘stick,’ we need to make them AUTOMATIC and EASY. Therefore, reducing the ⚡️ACTIVATION ENERGY⚡️ involved in a task much less energy to sustain it as a habit. Have you ever procrastinated doing something for days or weeks only to eventually get around to doing it 😢, and realizing it wasn’t so bad after all? In fact, once you got started, perhaps it was pretty straight-forward, and not nearly as taxing as you’d anticipated. 🤔 THAT’S BECAUSE THE ACT OF STARTING 🎬 REQUIRED THE MOST EFFORT. In chemistry, ⚡️ACTIVATION ENERGY⚡️ refers to the minimum effort required to…
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Hazlo tú
❝Donde haya un árbol que plantar, PLÁNTALO TÚ. Donde haya un error que enmendar, ENMIÉNDALO TÚ. Donde haya un esfuerzo que todos esquivan, HAZLO TÚ. ▶️SÉ TÚ EL QUE APARTA LA PIEDRA DEL CAMINO❞ ✒️Gabriela Mistral Poetisa, diplomática y profesora chilena 🇨🇱
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Social Media
🚨How many of you have unfriended someone on Social Media because they said something offensive about politics, religion, childcare…? And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just don’t want to talk to them? 🤔 Don’t you feel that we are more polarized and divided than we ever have been? 🤺 ⚠️We’re less likely to compromise, which means WE’RE NOT LISTENING TO EACH OTHER. 🙉 Now, part of that is due to technology 📱 A CONVERSATION requires a BALANCE between talking and listening, and somewhere along the way, WE LOST THAT BALANCE. 🙊 Radio journalist and broadcaster CELESTE HEADLEE gives us 10 tips…
