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The book discusses the importance of understanding human behavior in investment, as changes are exciting but most human behavior is consistent over generations.
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The book discusses the importance of understanding human behavior in investment, as changes are exciting but most human behavior is consistent over generations.
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The Secret (1) (The Secret Library)
It was mentioned as part of Charlamagne's belief in the power of positive thinking and the Law of Attraction. It was used to illustrate the idea that holding onto negative thoughts can lead to manifestation of negative outcomes.
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The Great Gatsby
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It was mentioned as a book that was perhaps being studied or analyzed in a college course, contrasting it to the experience of getting hands-on in the real-world book industry.
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Yeah right, it's like well I mean I could stay here and obviously learn this is a very these are very smart people but like what if I could just send Malcolm Gladwell an email and what if I could just...
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It was mentioned as a book that was perhaps being studied or analyzed in a college course, contrasting it to the experience of getting hands-on in the real-world book industry.
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Yeah right, it's like well I mean I could stay here and obviously learn this is a very these are very smart people but like what if I could just send Malcolm Gladwell an email and what if I could just like meet him wouldn't that be really cool.
Team of Rivals
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It was mentioned as a biography of Abraham Lincoln and discussed how empathy and engagement with others played a crucial role in Lincoln's success as president.
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I was blown away, I was reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's, good one, Team of Rivals, and it's about Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln is rated by most historians as our best president, right?
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It was mentioned as a biography of Abraham Lincoln and discussed how empathy and engagement with others played a crucial role in Lincoln's success as president.
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I was blown away, I was reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's, good one, Team of Rivals, and it's about Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln is rated by most historians as our best president, right?
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It was discussed how Cal Newport's book, 'Slow Productivity', captures the growing sentiment that people are fed up with doing more. The book offers an alternative definition to "pseudo productivity" and suggests that we should aim to accomplish fewer things and obsess over quality.
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Yeah, I mean I think people aren't anti-productivity really so much as their anti-overlook, this idea of I have too much to do which doesn't just mean I'm really busy because I have a lot of things to...
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It was discussed how Cal Newport's book, 'Slow Productivity', captures the growing sentiment that people are fed up with doing more. The book offers an alternative definition to "pseudo productivity" and suggests that we should aim to accomplish fewer things and obsess over quality.
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Yeah, I mean I think people aren't anti-productivity really so much as their anti-overlook, this idea of I have too much to do which doesn't just mean I'm really busy because I have a lot of things to do but it also means that the administrative overhead that comes with each of these tasks is now starting to pile up to the point where I'm barely actually making progress on any work like the state of overload is uniquely deranging and I think the pandemic put a lot of knowledge workers into that mode and they personify that frustration by saying well you know screw your productivity right because I mean you think about loosely what is productivity I don't know like trying to do more like trying to produce more and more is the absolute less thing I need so I mean I think the pandemic a lot of people had your same experience which is overload got to a place where its side effects became intolerable something has to change the hard part was figuring out what but I think most people agreed something had to change.
And I think you're you sort of captured that in this latest book is like people are fed up with doing more.
I mean it makes all of the difference. It's a light switch difference in both what you're producing, but in just the subjective well-being you experience while working. Like getting fewer things on your plate at once is like the biggest positive change you could make in your knowledge work life.
And I think that's as important of a consequence of what I'm trying to do as even the details of my particular pitch is break people out of this mold teach the fish what water is hey pseudo productivity is not destiny and in fact it's a pretty terrible way to organize cognitive labor like let's start thinking of alternatives.
Slow Productivity is a alternative definition to pseudo productivity but probably the larger project here is to have alternative definitions writ large and there could be many of them but just to get people thinking what is my definition of productivity what are its principles how do I pursue it like to have a menu that's not just you should be jumping off and on calls about funnel marketing or whatever like have options that are not just pseudo productivity that I think that's as important of a consequence of what I'm trying to do as even the details of my particular pitch is break people out of this mold teach the fish what water is hey pseudo productivity is not destiny and in fact it's a pretty terrible way to organize cognitive labor like let's start thinking of alternatives.
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Arthur Brooks co-authored the book "Build the Life You Want." The book was referenced when discussing how happiness is a direction rather than a destination.
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It was discussed how anxiety, depression, and anger have evolved as mechanisms to help humans survive and reproduce, but they can often overreact and be detrimental.
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It was discussed how anxiety, depression, and anger have evolved as mechanisms to help humans survive and reproduce, but they can often overreact and be detrimental.
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Even other bad feelings like depression and anger, you know what's the big deal? Why make life so miserable?
I mean, I've been preoccupied by this my whole career Jordan. It just seems like if some man live in the deity decided to make everybody's life miserable.
It's not just cocktail party conversations like a really serious neglected scientific question. It's you know, most doctors are trying to figure out what's wrong with this person now? What's wrong in the mechanism? And I'm trying to say step back you guys. Let's take an engineer's point of view and ask how is this seen designed in a way that leaves it so vulnerable to these kind of things which brings us back to anxiety what you were asking about.
It's because pain is supposed to stop you from doing stuff that hurt you before it actually hurts you much and if it doesn't and you repeatedly get hurt that means the pain system is not doing its job and it should get more sensitive and paradoxically gets more sensitive then you have more pain and then it gets more sensitive so it's a positive feedback thing same with anxiety if you're not having enough anxiety keep you out of danger the anxiety becomes more sensitive
I think it's normal for people to, you know, think well of themselves because people who think well of themselves do better in life then people who think oh I don't have much to offer me that that's not a very useful thing.
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Chip War is a really great book and it's a must-read for anybody who is even slightly interested in the world of tech, geopolitics, economics.
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The Vagina Monologues
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This episodic play centered on women's stories about their bodies, sex, joy, and trauma, which was intended to eliminate shame regarding the feminine body. The speaker recalled seeing it off-Broadway as a kid in the 90s, finding that it taught them that discussing their bodies could be powerful, funny, and normal.
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This episodic play centered on women's stories about their bodies, sex, joy, and trauma, which was intended to eliminate shame regarding the feminine body. The speaker recalled seeing it off-Broadway as a kid in the 90s, finding that it taught them that discussing their bodies could be powerful, funny, and normal.
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Well, The Vagina Monologues is this episodic play by Eve Ensler centered on women's stories about their bodies, sex, joy, and trauma. It's meant to delete the shame from the feminine body.
Just buy every girl you know a copy of the play. Really, everyone should read it and see it if they can.
It's not a musical. It's a play. It's a bunch of monologues.
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I did read your book to prep for this.
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It was mentioned as being a book with a bunch of bits at the end, and it included George Takei reading a chapter out loud; she said it was 'good'.
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I did read your book to prep for this.
Oh and well that is ancient.
Yeah I'm shocked. You can find a copy it's not able actually it's great because the ending is seemingly just a bunch of bits that you're like I don't know where to put these in the books.
Yeah yeah here's my opinions on a million things yeah the publisher wanted that oh really nice yeah it's good and then you have uh I don't know if I'm supposed to spoil the ending here but you have George to Kai do a reading of one of the chapters yeah
well what was so funny about George is that I had a list a very short list of cuz back then people were having like a celebrity with an interesting voice do a read of a chapter.
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