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Dieter Rams on Design: Understand People
Dieter Rams has been successful because he deeply understands people, both physically, psychologically, and how they operate in the world. Â He’s not some sort of mind reader: You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Aesthetics, Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes
Tagged Design, Dieter Rams, Planning
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The Right Comparison
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man … Continue reading
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Tagged Marcus Aurelius
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Creativity Is Not A Talent; It’s A Way Of Operating
John Cleese manages to explain about 90 different topics I’ve written about in a 13 minute span. Â Below is a really, really excellent speech on fostering creativity, becoming more effective, managing time, and much more. Â The short version is excellent, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Productivity, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement, Time Tracking, Tips
Tagged Creativity, John Cleese, Lifestyle
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Dieter Ram’s Ten Principals of Good Design
Good design is innovative The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetics, Design, Dieter Rams
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How To Make Work Miserable
From The Progress Principle: Over the past 15 years, we have studied what makes people happy and engaged at work. In discovering the answer, we also learned a lot about misery at work. … What we discovered is that the … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Leading, Persuasion, Productivity, Quotes
Tagged Management, Work
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If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy, You’re Not Spending It Right
This sentiment that money can’t buy happiness is lovely, popular, and almost certainly wrong: Money allows people to live longer and healthier lives, to buffer themselves against worry and harm, to have leisure time to spend with friends and family, and to control the … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Money, Psychology, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Happiness, Money
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Disciplined Mindwandering, or The Benefits of Daydreaming
Jonathan Schooler, the psychologist who helped pioneer the study of insight, has recently begun studying the benefits of daydreams. Â His lab has demonstrated that people who consistently engage in more daydreaming score significantly higher on measures of creativity. Â To evaluate … Continue reading
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Tagged Daydream, Ideas, Jonah Lehrer, Mind Wandering
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Lies, Happiness, and The Tyranny of the Biographer
Being happy in your life and being happy about your life are very different concepts. This is a result of the fact that you have, in a sense, two selfs. There is an experiencing self, who lives in the present, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Daniel Kahneman, Happiness, Rationality, TED, Thinking
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It’s Hard And I’m Just Not Passionate About It…
“It’s hard, and I’m just not passionate about it, and I’m thinking of giving up – will you tell me it’s OK to give up, so I’ll feel better about it in the morning?†It’s rarely about difficulty or enthusiasm. … Continue reading
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Tagged Hard, Passion, Perseverance, Work
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Language and Rationality
Thinking in a different language may lead to more rational decisions: Keysar’s team recruited 54 University of Chicago students who spoke Spanish as a second language. Each received $15 in $1 bills, each of which could be kept or bet … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality, Uncategorized
Tagged Language, Rationality, Reason
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On Role Models
We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing. Â Misdeeds … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Leading, Psychology, Quotes, Relationships
Tagged Guide, Letters to a Stoic, Mentor, Role Model, Seneca
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How Criticism Encourages Creativity
We’re taught to think that brainstorming is an effective way to generate ideas and spur creative thought. Â The key to successful brainstorming, it was thought, was lack of a lack of criticism. Â This makes sense: if people aren’t afraid that … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Brainstorming, Creativity, Imagine, Jonah Lehrer, Meeting
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Overvaluing What We Have
One of the worst tricks we manage to play on ourselves is overvaluing what we already have and undervaluing what we don’t. Â This is especially sad since most of us don’t have all that much anyway, and taking the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Change, Doing, Happiness, Irrational Behavior, Value
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The Fastest Way to Change
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. – The Startup of You Human beings are such easily influenced creatures. Â The way we laugh is influenced by … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Relationships
Tagged Change, Friends, relationships
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On Cheating
People become more likely to lie or cheat when they see others lie or cheat, explains Dan Ariely: …we gave participants 5 minutes to solve as many mathematical problems as possible (where they were instructed to find which two numbers … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality, Relationships
Tagged Cheating, Dan Ariely, Taxes
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