Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
If a successful talk is a journey, make sure you don’t start to annoy your travel companions along the way. Some speakers project too much ego. They sound condescending or full of themselves, and the audience shuts down.
Harvard Business Review • Frame Your Story
Being a beginner is precisely about putting your status aside, about being willing to listen to and learn from others, about revealing your insecurities.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
... See moreINTERNALIZED CAPITALISM LOOKS LIKE THIS
- You feel guilty when you rest.
- Your self-esteem is largely based on good performance in your career.
- Productivity is more important than health.
- The belief that hard work = happiness.
- You feel lazy even when you are in pain, experiencing trauma or adversity.
- You use busyness as a means of avoiding
Digital communication redirects the flows of communication. Information is spread without forming a public sphere. It is produced in private spaces and distributed to private spaces. The web does not create a public.
This has highly deleterious consequences for the democratic process. Social media intensify this kind of communication without... See more
This has highly deleterious consequences for the democratic process. Social media intensify this kind of communication without... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
When you arouse your audience’s emotions, they will have no choice but to be totally and completely immersed in your story.
Akash Karia • TED Talks Storytelling
Não se encontre. Nunca conheça quem você é. Porque é isso que faz você se empenhar e viver em estado de constante descoberta. Essa postura vai forçá-lo a ser humilde nos julgamentos e na aceitação das diferenças.
Mark Manson • A Sutil Arte De Ligar O F*da-Se
When we become skilled at something, it becomes automatic. We don’t have to think much about it, because our brain, running on virtual autopilot, is constantly making predictions—and most of its predictions are true.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities. Critical ignoring is more than just not paying attention – it’s about practising mindful and healthy habits in the face of information overabundance.
Anastasia Kozyreva • When Critical Thinking Isn’t Enough: To Beat Information Overload, We Need to Learn ‘Critical Ignoring’
C.S. Lewis on the value of starting where you are:
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”