Do We Really Want Happiness? Lessons from Socrates, Kahneman & Maslow
Why did Daniel Kahneman give up on the idea that people want to be happy and what can we learn from Maslow's real research?
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"Ambition Is Frozen Desire" - Excerpt From David Whyte's Consolations
David Whyte details the positive and negative sides of ambition and our challenge of grappling with it in our lives
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Why Did People Stop Caring About Developing a Meaningful Philosophy of Life in the 1970s?
Why did college students abandon trying to achieve a meaningful philosophy of life and instead replace it with the desire to become wealthy?
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Maslow's Imaginary Pyramid: Who really invented the pyramid?
Maslow never used a pyramid in any of his writing and research? The idea was proposed by a random business journalist.
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Learn the game, don't become the game
A reflection on Paul Graham's essay \"the lesson to unlearn\" and how I'm optimistic about the future of work and the death of \"bad tests\"
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The 2nd Chapter Of Success: Coming Up With New Metrics For What Matters
The second chapter of success starts when you are able to detach success with money, power and success. Success is having faith that things will be okay.
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Andrew Taggart’s Deep Dive Into Total Work
Andrew Taggart summarizes "Total Work" as the assumption that we "are born to work, live to work and are dying to work." His article in Aeon first proposing the idea sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole.
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...and then what?
A friend wanted $10 million before he could do what he wanted. I asked him: you just got a year of severance, why not start now? The choice to live can be made today.
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Taking your own “moonshots” — the secret of Value Goal Alignment
If your personal values don't align with your organization's mission, frustration is inevitable. Goal commitment requires value alignment.
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Asking Better Questions
Most conversations stay surface-level because no one asks the real questions. Here are the ones that actually help people open up about their careers and lives.
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Beginner’s Mind: A Better Way to Solve Problems
The more expertise we gain, the harder it is to see clearly. Beginner's mind is the antidote to stale thinking at work.
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Getting Reps: High-Performance and The Patriots
Brady and Belichick had 33+ hours of playoff experience when they trailed by 25. Getting reps in high-performance environments matters.
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