Productivity Lessons from Artists and Entrepreneurs - Outside - Pocket The overlap between professional, creative, and athletic success is huge. Photo by Eddy Klaus/Unsplash. Though building up your body and mind to tackle athletic challenges may seem like a unique endeavor, that’s not the case. Performance is performance, and there are many parallels between training for a marathon, making great art, and building a business that lasts. All are challenges that demand hard work and self-control in pursuit of a goal that is days, months, or even years away. Put simply, the overlap between professional, creative, and athletic success is huge. Prioritize Consistency Over Heroic Efforts “People who don’t do creative work for a living often assume that it’s like what they see in the movies—that it’s 36 hours of muse-fueled blitz, sitting at a typewriter with a cigarette, pouring out genius,” says Ryan Holiday, creative strategist and author whose latest is Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts. Seek Mentorship Sleep!
This 2-Minute Breathing Exercise Can Help You Make Better Decisions, According to a New Study Chess Grandmasters and Navy SEALs follow Nancy Pelosi's advice to make better decisions under pressure. So could taking a deep breath also help with business decision making? A recent collaborative study by researchers from Belgium, France, and the Seychelles, tried to answer this question with an experiment based on an "in-basket test," a testing protocol used by organizations to assess how well potential employees make decisions under the kind of pressure encountered in a typical managerial environment. The study tested a 5-2-7 breathing exercise. The researchers recruited 56 management students aged between 19 and 29 years from a business school in France. All the students were told to imagine they were in charge of a fictional retail clothing company and were given information about the company's background, its staff, the major issues it was facing, letters, memos, telephone messages, and notes. It prevented students from feeling stressed after the decision-making test.
The Curious Case of the Socialite Who Sterilized Her Daughter In November 2018, a 66-year-old man named Tommy Thompson was wheeled into Judge Laurel Beatty Blunt’s courtroom in Columbus, Ohio, clad in a dark blue suit and looking like he had just served four years in federal prison. Thompson’s hair, once thick black curls, had given way to a bald pate, and with a long white beard and piercing eyes, he looked like a slightly hairier Christopher Lee, the actor who played the wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings. Throughout the trial, Judge Blunt interrupted Thompson’s testimony to reprimand him for veering wildly off course. Thompson had long insisted that he suffers from neurological problems and chronic fatigue syndrome, which impairs his memory, and that his meandering explanations were a symptom of the distress foisted upon him. But Judge Blunt, like other officials who’d presided over civil and criminal cases against Thompson, claimed that his malingering was the maneuvering of a hyper-intelligent con man. “We’ve found it. In July 2012, U.S.
How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours Image copyright Reuters What is the point of sending someone to prison - retribution or rehabilitation? Twenty years ago, Norway moved away from a punitive "lock-up" approach and sharply cut reoffending rates. The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby went to see the system in action, and to meet prison officers trained to serve as mentors and role models for prisoners. "OK, and now put your big toes together and put your bum behind you!" "Can you feel the stretch?" It could be a yoga class at any holistic health retreat anywhere in the world but the participants here at Norway's maximum security Halden Prison are rather far removed from the usual yummy mummy spa clientele. "It calms them," says prison governor Are Hoidal approvingly, as we watch from the sidelines. Tranquillity does not come cheaply. A uniformed prison officer on a silver micro-scooter greets us cheerily as he wheels past. Hoidal laughs at my nonplussed face. "It's called dynamic security!" "It was completely hard," he remembers.
Millennial Burnout Is Being Televised - The Atlantic - Pocket Marie Kondo in an episode of Tidying Up With Marie Kondo on Netflix. Photo from Netflix. The fifth episode of Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, Netflix’s effervescent new reality series, deals with Frank and Matt, a couple living in West Hollywood, California. Both writers, they have a touching love story involving Tinder, a too-small apartment filled with detritus from past roommates, and a burning desire to prove their adulting bona fides. They are, in short, the archetypal Millennial couple. The dramatic hook of the episode is that Frank’s parents are coming to visit for the first time, and Frank wants to impress them, to make them see “that the life we’ve created together is something to be admired.” Frank and Matt, in other words, want their home to reflect their identities and sense of self (as opposed to the cutlery preferences of the people Matt lived with after college). If Marie Kondo is the high priestess of burned-out Millennials, Fyre Festival was their summer solstice.
Divorce Destroys Finances of Americans Over 50, Studies Show In one sense, Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife, MacKenzie Bezos, are nothing special. By finalizing their divorce this month, they join the millions of Americans now splitting up in middle age. The rate of divorce after age 50 has doubled in the U.S. since 1990. The billionaire exes are unique, though, in escaping divorce with their finances relatively unscathed. He’s still the world’s richest person, worth $123.1 billion, and she has a $39.7 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Read more: With $137 Billion at stake, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos to divorce There are few things more devastating than divorce. Splitting up after age 50 -- often called “gray divorce” -- may be particularly hazardous to your emotional and financial health, far worse than doing so at younger ages. The economic effects are even more stark. “Getting a gray divorce is a major financial shock,” Brown said. Older men see their standard of living drop 21% after a divorce.
The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers The system that she, Ms. Kavanaugh and many other of these butchers embrace is rooted in grassland ranching, in which grazing animals play an integral role in sustainability. They do so by providing manure for fertilizer, which encourages the growth of a diversity of grasses, and by lightly tilling the soil with their hooves, which allows rainwater to reach the roots. The system’s advocates say it can regenerate vast swaths of grassland, which has the potential to sequester carbon rather than emitting it as factory farm operations do. (Critics of the alternative approach say that not all studies show improved carbon sequestration on grazed grassland, and that the system can’t produce enough meat to meet current demand.) “I grew up hiking the prairies of Colorado, and I developed a really deep love for those plains,” Ms. Raising grazing animals on grassland, however, is significantly more expensive than raising steers on feedlots, making the meat more costly for consumers.
A new book says married women are miserable. Don’t believe it. Last week, a shocking claim about happiness made the rounds in the press, from the Guardian to Cosmopolitan to Elle to Fox. The claim? Women should be wary of marriage — because while married women say they’re happy, they’re lying. “Married people are happier than other population subgroups, but only when their spouse is in the room when they’re asked how happy they are. The problem? Oops. The error was caught by Gray Kimbrough, an economist at American University’s School of Public Affairs, who uses the survey data — and realized that Dolan must have gotten it wrong. Dolan confirmed to me by email, “We did indeed misinterpret the variable. Kimbrough disputes that, too, arguing that Dolan’s other claims also “fall apart with a cursory look at the evidence,” as he told me. In May, author Naomi Wolf learned of a serious mistake in a live, on-air interview about her forthcoming book Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love. People trust books. Many researchers don’t do that.
The Midwest’s “Finnish Triangle” is a Land of Saunas and Squeaky Cheeses - Saveur - Pocket I’m in the middle of the area known locally as “the Finnish Triangle,” sampling a highly unusual yogurt whose active culture arrived here 100-some years ago on a sun-dried rag. Every surface in Miriam Yliniemi’s bright kitchen is covered with a bowl or platter wearing a crinkled beret of aluminum foil. The bluish February sunshine shoots low through the large plate glass window, jumping from foil top to foil top and lighting up her kitchen like a disco. Even though I’d asked Miriam to just make the karjalan piirakka, traditional rye hand pies, she’s chosen to override me and instead make a feast that charts a day in the life of a Minnesota Finn, from morning to midnight snack. Before I can wedge off my winter boots, she peels a soft plastic lid from a sky-blue Tupperware container and hands me the traditional Finnish breakfast: a cup of homemade yogurt dusted with a flurry of cinnamon sugar. “This is viili. “What does viili mean in Finnish?” “Wild,” Miriam says. “Right, woven cloths.
Leontine Linens Southern Living Idea House - 2019 When designer Heather Chadduck reached to collaborate on linens for the Southern Living Idea House 2019 – we jumped at the chance. The coastal beauty, located in Crane Island Florida; is a classic example of design that will stand the test of time. Meg Braff - Kips Bay Palm Beach AN INSIDER LOOK AT OUR DESIGN PROCESS Meg Braff reached out to our team looking to create a bedroom that felt a "little old-school Florida" with a warm color palette. Book Club: Elegance & Ease "The pages are brimming with traditional interiors with a comfortable, English twist," in Nina Campbell's latest book, Elegance & Ease (Country Life). The year of applique! The 2019 Pantone Color of the year has been announced and it is a long time favorite of ours - coral! Steven Gambrel reinterprets tradition with “intriguing twists and irrelevant juxtapositions” in each of his projects in his book, Perspective. Andrew Howard - Leontine Is Book Club: Charlotte Moss Entertains
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