Jason Shen
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Exec coach helping founders and brilliant misfits build companies and partnerships they’re deeply proud of.
Jason Shen
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Other studies published in 2006 and 2009 showed something similar—that people who read a lot of fiction tend to be better at empathizing with others (even after the researchers had accounted for the potential bias that people with greater empathetic tendencies may prefer to read novels). And, in 2013, an influential study published in Science found... See more
Ceridwen Dovey • Can Reading Make You Happier? | the New Yorker
Evidence that reading makes you more empathic
This locks toy companies into a challenging bet. Every year, they have to a) predict trends, b) invent them, and c) commit capital to them. All without knowing how the rest of the year will turn out. Since toy trends exist, but don’t last for very long, they have to invent new products every year—but the technological state of the art doesn’t... See more
Byrne Hobart • The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack
Toy makers have to think like publishers or VCs
Self-Efficacy: Bandura's Theory Of Motivation In Psychology
Gabriel Lopez-Garridosimplypsychology.org
Self efficacy comes from
Mastery / direct experience
Role modeling / vicarious experience
Encouragement / self talk
Emotional / physiological states
Imagined performance / mental rehearsal
While I'm sympathetic to many already struggling creators who will find fewer commissions and opportunities, I also think the genie is out of the lamp on this one. While there are probably some legal, technological, and social mechanisms to slow the use of these tools—I've heard of calls to boycott AI generated art—we cannot stop their widespread
... See moreJason Shen • 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI
Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C. S. Lewis
Gatherings & Relationships and be goddamn yourself
The only way to connect with people on a deep level is to exposure yourself vulnerable.
How to have more productive conversations
How Mayweather turned his brittle hands into a boxing wins and big payouts
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Jason Shenx.comFloyd Mayweather turned his brittle hands into an advantage by goading people into fighting with him and winning on points
These beautiful things that I meow #cats #meow #catsoftiktok #foryoupage #fyp
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tiktok.comWhen you get not just one but two hornet wasps