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Neil Pasricha: Cultivate Happiness & Live An Awesome Life
Training Your Brain for Happiness before Success
AI Key Takeaways
- The prevalent belief that great work leads to big success and then happiness is actually backwards
- Happiness should be treated as a practice and a habit that can be invested in
- Happy people are more productive, have higher sales, and greater creativity
- Investing in happiness leads to both personal and career success
- Happy people are more likely to get promotions and live longer
- Thinking of happiness as a practice leads to a fulfilling and successful life
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Neil Pasricha: Cultivate Happiness & Live An Awesome Life
Two Important Questions to Ask When Making a Career Decision
AI Key Takeaways
- The two questions to ask when making a major career decision are the deathbed test and the plan b test.
- The deathbed test involves asking which choice one would regret not doing more from the perspective of their deathbed.
- The plan b test involves considering what one will do if the current path doesn't work out.
- Visualizing and having a plan b is important for navigating career decisions.
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#149 Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
The Importance of Intrinsic Motivation in Finding Happiness
AI Key Takeaways
- Participants motivated by extrinsic rewards, such as movie tickets, showed less satisfaction and learned less
- Intrinsic motivators are crucial and should be prioritized
- A key question to ask is whether one would do the work for free, indicating intrinsic motivation
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High Performance Coach: How To Build Psychological Resilience - Dr Aria
The first lens we need to clean is the one we see the world through
AI Key Takeaways
- Negative emotions towards something else indicate something wrong with the self
- The mind tends to blame others, but it's about recognizing one's own lens or filter
- Clearing one's lens is necessary to see outside clearly
- Sharing truth shouldn't involve placing blame on others or demanding change
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#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
Training your monkey mind to focus on being in the present
AI Key Takeaways
- The speaker has successfully implemented several habits over the past few years, including a daily workout and cutting down on drinking
- The speaker follows a variation of the paleo diet called the phthalio diet, but does not beat themselves up over occasional failures
- Although the speaker has not successfully formed a meditation habit, they have made a habit of being meditative
- The speaker would like to cultivate a habit of doing yoga more regularly, but has not yet formed a plan around it
- The speaker rejects much of the current advice on how to perform and break habits.
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Anne Helen Petersen on changing your relationship to work and the guardrails that can prevent burnout
We expect women and immigrants to take on caring roles and do it for free.
AI Key Takeaways
- Race and gender play into who gets burned out because teaching and nursing are historically very gendered workforces.
- Work that women do or work that women feel called towards caring jobs, like any sort of nurturing caring profession, is also conceived as parenting in many cases.
- The devaluation of work that is done by immigrants, people of color, and women is part of the reason why people who are immigrants, women and people of color can get those jobs.
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The Pathless Path: How To Recreate Your Life And Career In 2023 - Paul Millerd
Career Crafting - Discover what you value through experiments
AI Key Takeaways
- Figure out what you value in your free time.
- Try out different activities to figure out what you enjoy.
- Figure out if the activity is energizing or a chore.
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Esther Perel - Let's Be Better Lovers
Perfectionism and how capitalism has worked into our relationships
AI Key Takeaways
- The judgment of others and the way that we judge ourselves in dating has led to a mental health crisis in the present.
- The pursuit of perfection in dating has led to the consumption of products and the replacement of partners.
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The Art of Noticing – and Appreciating – Our Dizzying World
Writing is an act of discovery
AI Key Takeaways
- To be a successful writer, one must be able to be quiet and protected, and not be distracted by external factors.
- This requires a deep connection to what is being written, heard, or felt.
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Stop Looking for the Perfect Job - a "Good Enough Job" is Just Fine
The Dangers of Workism
AI Key Takeaways
- Simone discusses the concept of workism and how it has become a dominant part of many Americans' identities.
- Workism can have negative consequences, as it can lead to neglect of other aspects of one's life.
- Simone discusses some historic trends that have led to the current situation where workism is more prevalent in the US.
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Sabbath and the Art of Rest
How Speeding Through Life Affects Our Morals
AI Key Takeaways
- Ethics becomes a luxury when faced with a situation where time is of the essence.
- It is not a matter of personal character or cultural conditioning, but rather the situation in which someone finds themselves.
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