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Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind by Eliezer Yudkowsky. These two books are hands-down the best insight into modern-day rational thinking I’ve ever read, written by (in my opinion) one of the greatest minds of our time. Yudkowsky manages to explain highly complex philosophical and scientific concepts to the reader in a remarkab
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
He also believed that good character was his ticket to both productivity and happiness.
Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
Christakis and Fowler’s excellent work Connected.
Chris Fussell, C. W. Goodyear, General Stanley McChrystal (Foreword) • One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
Howard Gardner’s Creating Minds.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
collaboration, competition, and social proof.
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
“However,” they added, “the distribution of effort across different instruments seems important. Those children identified as exceptional by [the school] turn out to be those children who distributed their effort more evenly across three instruments.” The less skilled students tended to spend their time on the first instrument they picked up, as if
... See moreDavid Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Au niveau des caractéristiques d’adaptation, on retrouve les buts de vie que les hommes poursuivent. Selon le psychologue Robert Emmons296, la plupart de ces buts peuvent être classés en quatre catégories: travail et réussite, relations et intimité, religion et spiritualité, et enfin, transmission inter-générationelle (laisser un héritage et contri
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