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Paper just works
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Touching is believing. That’s why bullet journals are all the rage. People want to slow down and get everything from their worries, random thoughts, weekend plans, shopping lists, gift ideas, blog topics, exercise schedules, etc., all down and out on paper. Writes Mike Vardy in his piece Why Paper Works: Paper works because it is…
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To celebrate the launch of Stephen King’s novel The Outsider in March 2018, Goodreads asked Stephen King to list out his top 10 favorite books of all time. The voracious reader and prolific writer never felt satisfied with his final selections, but he played along anyway. See below for the complete list. “Of course, any list like…
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Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai finished his most famous work, The Great Wave, at the age of 71. Upon seeing the print, Van Gogh remarked: “These waves are claws, the boat is caught in them, you can feel it.” Read about Hokusai’s great wave: a lesson in persistence
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Steal like an artist: ‘You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes’
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Who to copy is easy. You copy your heroes—the people you love, the people you’re inspired by, the people you want to be. The songwriter Nick Lowe says, “You start out by rewriting your hero’s catalog.” And you don’t just steal from one of your heroes, you steal from all of them. The writer Wilson…
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The Dog Photographer
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William Wegman is a photographer famous for his portraits of dogs. For the last 45 years, Wegman has been dressing up his Weimaraners in human clothes and making them do everyday poses. “Dogs are always in a state of becoming something: they become characters, objects…when they’re lying down they’re becoming landscapes.” His dogs have since…
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Get the cool shoeshine!
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“Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of societies: those where you can get a shoe shine and those where you can’t,” wrote Roger Cohen in a 2008 Op-ed. Americans love their shoe shines. The opposite is true of egalitarian societies like France where such a cleaning service “rubs the Gallic egalitarian spirit the wrong way.” But in New…
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Why great athletes enjoy suffering pain
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Author Malcolm Gladwell sits down with Alex Hutchison, author of the new book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance to discuss how great athletes come to enjoy suffering pain. Says Hutchison, “Great athletes don’t necessarily feel pain differently. They reframe pain differently.” Hutchison calls the suffering a type of benign…
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How to sustain momentum when we’re already on a roll
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We all know what it feels like to be on a roll. The enthusiasm synchs up with the effort to produce a feeling of flow. The vibe is right. But what goes up must come down Inspiration ebbs. Motivation falters. Humans are inconsistent. Advises record producer and co-founder of Def Jam Records Rick Rubin:…
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The benefits of walking in nature
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One of the main benefits of walking in nature is that trees inspire feelings of awe. According to research done by psychology professor Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley, awe benefits not only the mind and body but also improves our social connections and makes us kinder. Spending time outside is also vital as a de-stressor.…
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— Thomas Henry Huxley, also known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for supporting the theory of evolution
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‘The right to disconnect’ 📱
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Stop working from home and get some rest. Even better, plan some unscheduled time. Sincerely, France Wait, what? On January 1st of this year, France passed the ‘right to disconnect‘ law which enforces a digital diet outside working hours. The rule prohibits employers from calling or emailing employees during personal time. France already imposes 35-hour works…