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The sleep advice no one tells you8 min · 2022-09-25 · Sleep better without sacrificing your tech. · Shared by 1034, including Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Digg, Beate Jordaan, irene-rubio
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Big Think
Escape the perfectionist trap with the Japanese philosophy of "wabi sabi"6 min · 2022-09-19 · Perfectionism is on the rise, and its consequences for mental health can be devastating. The Japanese philosophy of "wabi sabi" can help. · Shared by 1136, including Beate Jordaan, Connie Ragen Green, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, A. FNIX Hill
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“Instead, what keeps us living and what keeps me vitally engaged is a constant pursuit of betterment
Harper’s BAZAAR
Rise of ADHD Diagnosis Among Women13+ min · 2022-09-05 · Once thought to primarily affect overstimulated boys, ADHD diagnoses have spiked among adult women. For one writer, coming to terms with her diagnosis later in life has put her past and family history… · Shared by 4346, including Fräulein Tessa, Beate Jordaan, Colin Wright
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adhd
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Rather than being unable to pay attention, people with ADHD lack the ability to make good choices about how and when to pay attention.
Brain Pickings
A Penguin’s Antidote to Abandonment3 min · 2022-07-09 · How to sail in the icy sea of uncertainty without sinking. · Shared by 195, including Beate Jordaan, Charles Duhigg
relationships
idratherbewriting.com
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span19+ min · 2022-06-26 · I recently realized that absorbing the constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention… · Shared by 483, including hiten.eth, Beate Jordaan, Ines Bieler
digital life
better living
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Williams asks to a room full of designers: “How many of you want to live in the world you are designing?” No one raised their hand.
Aeon+Psyche
The reality of prostitution is not complex. It is simple8 min · 2022-06-02 · Prostitution is not sex and it’s not work. Its reality is far from complex – in fact, it’s simple. Trust me, I’ve done it · Shared by 365, including Beate Jordaan, Patricia Churchland, Kathleen Stock, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine
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cash is the coercive force, the evidence of the coercion, and the great silencer all at the same time.
Leo Babauta
The Body as a Vessel for Living￼1 min · 2022-03-25 · By Leo Babauta Something I’ve noticed is that we spend a lot of our lives wrapping our identity in our bodies. If our body is something we’re proud of, we feel really good about ourselves … but much… · Shared by 114, including Beate Jordaan
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Our bodies are not us, nor are they the experience. They’re a part of the experience, but it’s like putting our attention on the car instead of the scenery we’re driving through, or the song that’s playing, or the sunlight that’s shining on us.
jaymehoffman.medium.com
The Shoe Button Complex: How to Identify Know-It-Alls1 min · 2022-03-07 · The Shoe Button Complex is a mental model coined by Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett used to describe when an individual’s success in one… · Shared by 192, including Leonardo Sumulong, Beate Jordaan
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when an individual’s success in one area leads them to believe they know everything there is to know about all other areas.
The School of Life
The Art of Listening5 min · 2021-12-22 · Many of us probably have a nagging feeling that we don’t listen enough to other people. Here we’re not going to make the guilt worse by telling you that listening is a good thing, worthy but in fact… · Shared by 208, including Beate Jordaan
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The reason why so-called great writers are interesting to listen to (even when they talk about themselves) is that they have mastered the trick of teasing out from their experiences what is Universally Relevant from what is Locally Specific.
The Atlantic
Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home5 min · From 2021 · When people share a space, their collective experience can sprout its own vocabulary, known as a "familect." · Shared by 329, including Elliott M. Hoey, Beate Jordaan, Anne Helen Petersen, Larry Ferlazzo, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Brad Brooks, Grammar Girl is also @grammargirl@zirk.us
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language
culture
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During the pandemic, we’ve spent dramatically more time in those quarters, and our in-group slang has changed accordingly.
Fast Company
Staying creative in extreme isolation: Lessons from Japan’s ‘hikikomori’3 min · From 2021 · Artists and designers can learn from the different ways people who withdraw from society have navigated experiences of isolation. · Shared by 209, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Gabriele, USC ICT, Beate Jordaan
creativity
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While this is not the same as being hikikomori,
Inc.
This Is How Reading Rewires Your Brain, According to Neuroscience2 min · From 2021 · Reading doesn't just cram information into your brain. It changes how your brain works. · Shared by 421, including J. YouKnowMe, Jonathan Kogan, Stephanie A Kowalski, Real Marsha Wright®, Deb Lee, Howard Getson, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Beate Jordaan
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Not according to neuroscience. Reading, science shows, doesn't just fill your brain with information, it actually changes the way your brain works for the better. 
TED Talks
The lost art of listening4 min · From 2021 · The story of how this politician won over a warlord contains a lesson that we could all learn from, says organizational psychologist Adam Grant. · Shared by 370, including Kevin Roberts, Adam Grant, Stephanie A Kowalski, Beate Jordaan, Neil Hart 💙, Luminous Kaleidoscope
relationships
better living
culture
listening
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Listening well is more than a matter of talking less. It’s a set of skills in asking and responding. It starts with showing more interest in other people’s interests, rather than in trying to judge their status or prove our own.
BBC News (World)
Is the Western way of raising kids weird?8 min · From 2021 · From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them · Shared by 528, including Beate Jordaan, Aamir Raz, Gutly Myrat
parenting
Aeon+Psyche
I have no mind’s eye: let me try to describe it for you5 min · From 2021 · With aphantasia, my mind’s eye sees only darkness, not images. It’s like missing a sense, and only imagination can compensate · Shared by 113, including Jason Silva, Vaughan Bell, Beate Jordaan, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Luminous Kaleidoscope
psychology
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Visual Capitalist
29 Psychological Tricks To Make You Buy More20+ min · From 2020 · This graphic looks at 29 different psychological tricks that marketers use to try and influence consumer behavior.  · Shared by 492, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Swebliss, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Pippa Malmgren, Matthias Lampe, Neil Hart 💙, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Jochen Burkhard, Vladimer Botsvadze 🛫🌎🎙️, Lisa Gualtieri, Beate Jordaan, Andreas Staub, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Caden Jiang, Nicolas Babin
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