Do something for 30 days is just enough time to add a habit or remove a habit. Doing something for a mouth makes the time spent during those day more memorable. Starting something for 30 days helps make you more adventurous to try new things. Small sustainable changes are what makes these habits more likely to stick.
Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Silvers
Telling someone your goals makes it less likely to happen. Having a goal means there are steps needed to happen in order to achieve it. By telling someone your goal and by them acknowledging it tricks your mind into thinking you’ve already accomplished it when you haven’t. So not telling people your goals keeps you more motivated to actually accomplish your goal.
Weird, or just different?: Derek Sivers
Assumptions about where we live aren’t always the same around the world. In America streets have names and the blocks in between them don’t. Although in Japan streets don’t have names and the blocks in between them do. Ideas and assumptions, we have could mean the opposite is true somewhere else as well.
RSA Animations
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Winners Take All: Anand Giridharadas
The kinds of social change that cost the winners of life are ruled out. This ultimately leads to problems like 82% of wealth accumulated on 2017 went to the global 1 percent. This puts these types of people in such an unfair advantage that some people are struggling to keep their head above water. Ultimately the best solutions aren’t asking that 1 percent to get off of someone’s back to even the playing field. In order to have social change we have to work together and stop feeding the win win fantasy that allows the winners to stand on other people’s backs.
Climate Change and the Future of Humanity: David Wallace-Wells
Every aspect of our lives is affected by climate change. Climate change was seen as a problem that would take decades to fully unfold but that actually isn’t the case as it happened within years in real time. The little time we have to solve this problem could lead to greater problems down the road that would affect all life. Depending how bad it gets will be up to us and in what we do. In order to make change we need to change how we do things.
Re-Imagining Work: Dave Coplin
The majority of the work force in 2012 reported there were not happy with their current job. Technology in this case is part of the reason for these workies being unhappy/disengaged as being unable to use technology to its fullest potential decreased productivity. Another reason is the work environment provided doesn’t help promote productivity. Putting people in small cubical isn’t a great environment to work in. Lastly to increase productivity you need to have a culture that promotes productivity by surrounding your employees with good people.