🎃 Reading & Thoughts from October 🎃

Issue #13 // *|DATE:F j, Y|*
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“If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” - Unknown

#READING

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Is Amazon Unstoppable? (75 min read)
//newyorker
Summary: Amazon will take over the world

The Life-Changing Magic of Having ‘Enough’ (4 min read)
//ryanholiday
Summary: You will never have enough
There is always more. When you fall into this mindset, you are at the mercy of the world. But when you believe there is nothing lacking, then you will own the world.

If you want to change minds… (1 min read)
//sethgodin
Summary: Make them believe by showing what they see
The only way to make others believe is by showing them in their way. You cannot force someone to think in your way, you cannot force someone to believe what you believe. Make them believe in a way they can believe. This applies to everything in life, not everyone learns by being spoken at.  

Your Goals are Overrated (24 min read)
//markmanson
Summary: Goals are purely a long-term vision, but you need habits to achieve a goal
Rather than focusing on goals, you need to develop habits. How often do you create New Years’ Goals, only to forget about them by February? This happens often. Personally, I use goals as a grandiose plan to get me excited and then build monthly goals that role into weekly goals that role into daily tasks. In addition to monthly goal setting, I do monthly habit setting to achieve a new habit. In the past this has been taking cold showers, squatting everyday, and even watching the sunset every night. Habits compound, while goals are fixed. Would you rather have your money live under your bed or in an investment account? The great thing about habits is that you forget you’re doing them, and they continue to work in the background of your mind.

Here’s What Happened When I Complimented Everyone I Met for an Entire Day (10 min read)
//inc
Summary: No one gets enough recognition. Complimenting people can be hard, but when you do it, it makes both you and their life a little bit better.
I really want to try this. Unfortunately, I am not the best compliment-er — maybe its because I’m not observant or because I live in my head, but this needs to change. If I can do it, so can you. Give this article a read and then try to be aware and compliment people more

Don’t Worry About Job Burn-Out. Worry About Job Boredom. (4 min read)
//dariusforoux
Summary: Being bored at work is an issue, and it’s your fault. You either lack the vision or motivation to change the path. Do something about it.
I chat about this topic often with people. I hear a lot of people feeling stuck and bored, yet they don’t make a change. It becomes an unhealthy cycle and it bleeds into your personal life. You have the power to change anything you want, and if you’re feeling this way, its time to make that change.

Stop Doing Low-Value Work (5 min read)
//hbr
Summary: Stop doing low-value work by making it a habit to aggressively remove/automate/redistribute this work from your load
Low-value work is just clogging your mental capacity and blocking you from what you actually need to get done.

Want to Make Difficult Conversations Easy? Try This 1 Counterintuitive Trick, According to Psychology (7 min read)
//inc
Summary: To make difficult conversations easy, you should listen more and talk less. Be empathetic, observe, and iterate. You don’t need to have counterpoints; it isn’t an argument. Let them have the final word.

#PODCASTS

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Facebook vs. Snapchat
//businesswars
Series on Spotify
Series on Apple Podcasts

1. Vanishing Act

2. Children of Privilege

3. The Offer

4. Facebook Fights Back

5. Stock Market Tailspin

6. Snapchat’s Comeback

7. Tiktok, The New Social Media Sensation

This is a wonderful series from Business Wars on Snapchat vs. Facebook. It illustrates the landscape that these social media giants are playing in.

Daniel Kahneman
//theknowledgeproject
Listen on Spotify
Listen on Apple Podcasts

Daniel Kahneman is the author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow."

• When attempting to change the behavior of someone else, instead of pushing them to change, weaken the restraining force

• Behaviors don’t always reflect personality; they’re more often a function of the situation

• To improve your decision-making: SLOW DOWN

• When making decisions, think of options as if they were candidates. Break them up into dimensions and evaluate each dimension separately.

  • Delay forming an intuition too quickly. Instead, focus on the separate points, and when you have the full profile, then you can develop an intuition

• The person who moves first in a negotiation has the advantage

  • The first person who moves sways everyone in that direction

#RANDOM

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How to Find Your Dream Job
//abestreep

10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings
//sarahcooper
Hahaha this is hilarious. Another one is ask a presenter to define something (a metric/word/number)

20,000 Startup Ideas
//unawaz

What Happens to Your Body on No Sleep
//outsideonline

Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity
//theatlantic

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Artificial Sweeteners
//popsci

My Life Without Sugar
//theguardian

Scientists have trained rats to drive tiny cars to collect food
//newscientist