How to Train Your Brain to Remember Almost Anything October 22, 2019 at 10:07AM

Success is largely based on what you know — everything you know informs the choices you make. And those choices are either getting you closer to what you want or increasing the distance between you and your ultimate goal in life.

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How to Change a Mind October 22, 2019 at 10:07AM

issy met Dylan when she took a job at the restaurant he worked at, waiting tables. The couple moved in together and got engaged not long after, despite what Missy saw as a huge red flag: Dylan was a member of a religious sect that she believed to be a cult.

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Ghost Forests Are Visceral Examples of the Advance of Climate Change October 14, 2019 at 06:31PM

As Matt Kirwan walks through Maryland’s Blackwater National Refuge, his rubber boots begin to squish. With each step the land beneath him turns from dry ground to increasingly soggy mud. The trees around him go from tall and full of leaves or needles to short, bare and pale white.

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When It’s Good to Be Antisocial October 14, 2019 at 06:31PM

Sometimes everybody wins when you go it alone.  Image: “Wanderer above the sea of fog,” Caspar David Friedrich (1817)Bees are emblems of social complexity.

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Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful October 14, 2019 at 06:30PM

2019 UPDATE: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models. You can order it now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Indiebound.

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My Management Lessons from Three Failed Startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox, and Twitter October 14, 2019 at 06:27PM

Kim Scott had one thing to do that day. She was going to price her product. It was the year 2000, she was the founder and CEO of Juice Software, and she had blocked off her whole morning to make this decision.

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From Muhammad to ISIS: Iraq’s Full Story October 14, 2019 at 06:26PM

If you’re not sure what Odd Things in Odd Places is and why I’m in Iraq by myself, here’s why. On the morning of Saturday, August 2nd, I got in a taxi in Erbil, the regional capital of Kurdish Iraq, and asked the driver to take me to the Khazir refugee camp.

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The Ultimate Guide to Becoming Your Best Self: Build your Daily Routine by Optimizing Your Mind, Body and Spirit October 14, 2019 at 06:26PM

Aristotle is credited with saying these 15 famous words. And for most of my life…I didn’t believe him. Know what I discovered?

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Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking October 14, 2019 at 06:26PM

We all know the story. A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish.

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Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history October 14, 2019 at 06:26PM

Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like something new.

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The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time October 14, 2019 at 06:26PM

Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work? It’s not just the number of hours we’re working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time.

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The Irish Clan That Was “Virtually Deleted from History” October 14, 2019 at 06:26PM

In engravings from 19th-century travel books the castle rises in a pale glimmering out of still waters in which its reflection descends to mysterious depths; the romantic perspective captures its symbolic stature as Connemara’s navel, but in the physical world it appears from the shore as a browni

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The Minecraft Generation October 14, 2019 at 06:26PM

Jordan wanted to build an unpredictable trap. An 11-year-old in dark horn-­rimmed glasses, Jordan is a devotee of Minecraft, the computer game in which you make things out of virtual blocks, from dizzying towers to entire cities.

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Who really killed Blockbuster? October 14, 2019 at 06:26PM

The last Blockbuster on Earth was supposed to close this year. Its owner, Ken Tisher, once had five stores in his franchise. Store by store, he closed each one as the recession, and then the confluence of market shifts that killed off other video stores, caught up with his.

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The rise of American authoritarianism October 14, 2019 at 06:25PM

A niche group of political scientists may have uncovered what’s driving Donald Trump’s ascent. What they found has implications that go well beyond 2016.

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The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking" October 14, 2019 at 06:25PM

Today, if there’s traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there’s a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green. Fail to do so, and you’re committing a crime: jaywalking.

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Why Do We Humanize White Guys Who Kill People? October 14, 2019 at 06:25PM

On Friday, November 27, a 57-year-old white man named Robert Louis Dear allegedly injured nine people and killed three in a shooting spree at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. Among those shot were four police officers, one of whom died.

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