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S1I've Studied Emotional Intelligence for Over a Decade. Here's Why It's a Super Power--in Just 7 Words  Emotions are powerful. Anger, sadness, and fear are all powerful emotions that can lead us to say or do things we later regret. Even so called positive emotions, like joy, can lead to regret if it causes us to agree to something because we're in a good mood, only to realize later we've over committed.
I've spent over a decade studying how emotional intelligence helps high-performers, leaders, and others achieve success. In doing so, I've seen firsthand how emotional intelligence gives these persons a powerful edge, and we could sum up the reason why in just seven words:
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S2Why you spend more when prices end in .99 - Kent Hendricks I once worked at a company that priced everything with a .95 ending. The bestselling software package was $999.95. Add-on products were $9.95, or $19.95, or $49.95. Everything ended with a .95. It had been this way for more than twenty years. One day, one of the VPs suggested we change all prices to end […]
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S3S4How to Avoid Groupthink When Hiring - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) When it comes to hiring, democratic decisions lead to better outcomes. But a hiring-by-committee approach carries its own unique pitfalls. Without careful orchestration, groups can make bad decisions too. Indeed, the dominant approach to hiring today–in which the hiring manager convenes a huddle and goes around the room hearing opinions on each candidate is particularly prone to groupthink. In order to make true group decisions about candidates, I advise hiring managers to follow a rigorous process, to ensure that your interviewers maintain a healthy level of independence: First, make it clear to interviewers that they should not share their interview experiences with each other before the final group huddle. Next, ask each interviewer to perform a few steps before the group huddle:distill their interview rating to a single numerical score; write down their main arguments for and against hiring this person and their final conclusion. This will help them stay true to their beliefs once the discussion starts, which leads to less biased predictions. Finally, the hiring managers should take note of the average score for a candidate. I’m not suggesting that she should then follow it blindly; the process is not an anonymous ballot. Instead, it’s meant to lead to richer, unbiased and uncensored discussions to help decision makers take note of information they might have missed otherwise.
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S5What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? | Quanta Magazine For decades, the best drug therapies for treating depression, like SSRIs, have been based on the idea that depressed brains don't have enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Yet for almost as long, it's been clear that simplistic theory is wrong. Recent research into the true causes of depression is finding clues in other neurotransmitters and the realization that the brain is much more adaptable than scientists once imagined. Treatments for depression are being reinvented by drugs like ketamine that can help regrow synapses, which can in turn restore the right brain chemistry and improve whole body health.
STEVEN STROGATZ: According to the World Health Organization, 280 million people worldwide suffer from depression. For decades, people with chronic depression have been told their problem lies with a chemical imbalance in the brain, specifically a deficit in a neurotransmitter called serotonin. And based on this theory, many have been prescribed antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, to correct this chemical imbalance.
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S13What sleep position is best? Here are some bedtime myths, debunked - National Geographic (No paywall) If you wonder whether there’s an ideal way to sleep, you’re not alone: There’s plenty of conflicting advice and dubious online information linking sleep positions to various benefits or problems, and the market is flooded with devices that promise to keep you from sleeping on your back, the scapegoat of most sleep position science.
They’re just a selection of the terms coined by psychologist Samuel Dunkell, who penned a popular psychology book in 1977 calling sleep positions “the night language of the body.” For Dunkell, sleep positions gave clues about an individual’s personality traits and psychology—their bodily position during their most vulnerable hours offering hints of how they move through the waking world.
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S15S16Tidal power: A forgotten renewable resource? As the tide rises and falls, is it worth generating electricity on a large scale from its movement? It’s a question engineers have studied for one particular part of Great Britain since the 1800s—and the urgency of making carbon-free power to limit climate change could mean deciding on an answer quickly.
Most shorelines have two high and two low tides each day, a pattern that coincides with the constant tug of gravity from the moon and sun on the sea. Unlike the hydropower we make from damming rivers so the water can spin turbines as it flows downstream, tides are slow and subtle, typically raising or dropping the sea level by a foot or less each hour. And concerns over ecological disruption that surround dams on rivers should be amplified for nearshore coastal areas, which are often delicate and crucial habitats for marine and shore-based environments alike.
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S17Successful Strategy and the Art of Timing You've heard the term chronos often regarding expensive watches and the measure of time. But another term for time that's even more important is kairos. In Greek, kairos represents a kind of qualitative time, as in "the right time." Chronos represents a different kind of "quantitative" time, as in, "What time is it?" and "Will you have enough time?"
Kairos means taking advantage of or even creating a perfect moment to deliver a particular message or action. Kairos also refers to crafting serendipity, like when the sun comes out at the end of a romantic comedy after all the conflicts have been resolved.
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S18This Incredibly Simple Approach Will Make Your Planning and Review Sessions Even More Productive Familiarizing yourself with work in advance can make the work appear less overwhelming and intimidating. It can also lower your resistance to doing your work. You can think of this exercise as a type of warm-up for your core work.Â
I've found this technique to be helpful in my professional life, as have my clients. While it may appear simple, you'll be surprised at how effective it can be to help you better understand a novel situation, concept, or experience.Â
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S197 Keys to Inbound Marketing for Growing Your Opportunity Every business I know is familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Only a few equally understand the process and value of inbound marketing, for pulling customers to your brand. In my experience, it's the fastest way to create trust and authenticity in this age of the consumer.
Inbound (pull) marketing is all about convincing potential customers that they found you and have a relationship with you, rather than being accosted by your message at every turn. It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily found website with credible customer-focused content.
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S203 Strategies for Building a Business Ready for Any Crisis According to a 2019 survey by PWC, 95 percent of respondents admitted that they expected a crisis to happen within two years. Well, they were right. Covid-19 happened, and in 2021, another PWC survey revealed that only 30 percent of respondents were crisis-ready when the pandemic hit.
These survey findings suggest that while organizations, business owners, and corporate executives know that a crisis is imminent, they're unsure how to craft a strategic crisis response. Why is this the case, and how do these leaders and businesses overcome this problem?
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S21The Sea Is Swallowing This Mexican Town "Wake up! The sea is taking it all away, it's taking it all away!" were the first cries Claudia Ramón heard that night, when a fierce wave lashed her town. "It was my cousin who warned me, and I ran to take out my personal things. If she hadn't grabbed my arm tightly, the wave would have rolled me over too," says the young woman standing on the rubble in the sand.
Where the family bodega used to stand there's now only a huge sinkhole. In the background there's the squawking of seagulls and a calm, silent horizon, oblivious to the roaring wind that mercilessly lashed the landscape of Las Barrancas, Mexico, in the early morning of October 2, 2022.
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S22US Offshore Wind Farms Are Being Strangled With Red Tape America's first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and rising costs have left many people with doubts about the industry's future in the US.
Several big hitters, including Ãrsted, Equinor, BP, and Avangrid, have canceled contracts or sought to renegotiate them in recent months. Pulling out meant the companies faced cancellation penalties ranging from $16 million to several hundred million dollars per project. It also resulted in Siemens Energy, the world's largest maker of offshore wind turbines, anticipating financial losses in 2024 of around $2.2 billion.
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S23Shockbuster Season: Why the Death of the Summer Movie Is a Good Thing Forty-seven years ago today, everything changed. True believers might already know what it was: On May 25, 1977, Star Wars hit movie theaters and irrevocably altered nearly everything pertaining to the act of moviegoing. Lines around the block, overly excited nerds, an appetite for action figures. Star Wars taught Hollywood that certain genresâsci-fi, fantasy, anything that percolated in the offbeat TV shows, books, and comics of the 1950s and '60sâhad fans, and those fandoms would show up. Star Wars made a meager $1.6 million in the US in its opening weekend. But people kept coming back, and by the end of its initial run it had made more than $300 million. Hollywood's Next Big Thing had arrived.
Common wisdom dictates that Jaws, which came out in 1975 and made some $260 million, was the first summer blockbuster. That's true, but it was Star Wars that shifted the idea of what kind of film future popcorn flicks tried to be. In the years after its release, a trove of sci-fi and genre films landed in theaters: Blade Runner, Alien, E.T., the Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior. By the '90s, the summer movie energy had shifted to action fareâTwister, Speed, Jurassic Park, Independence Dayâbut nerd stuff still ruled. For every Forrest Gump there was a Batman Returns or Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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S24Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch of space, the theory says, and you won't see a menagerie of particles or jittery quantum fields. There will only be identical strands of energy, vibrating and merging and separating. By the late 1980s, physicists found that these "strings" can cavort in just a handful of ways, raising the tantalizing possibility that physicists could trace the path from dancing strings to the elementary particles of our world. The deepest rumblings of the strings would produce gravitons, hypothetical particles believed to form the gravitational fabric of spacetime. Other vibrations would give rise to electrons, quarks, and neutrinos. String theory was dubbed a "theory of everything."
"People thought it was just a matter of time until you could compute everything there was to know," said Anthony Ashmore, a string theorist at Sorbonne University in Paris.
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S25Spotify Tips for People Who Like to Listen to Whole Albums I might be old-fashioned, but I like listening to albums. Spotify seems to always be fighting me on this.
I like experiencing a collection of songs all at once, played in the order chosen by the artist. I especially like doing this when I discover a new artist: I want to get a feel for what their music is like outside of their one or two hits. You know who doesn't seem to get that? Spotify.
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S26S27S28The hornet has landed: Scientists combat new honeybee killer in US In early August 2023, a beekeeper near the port of Savannah, Georgia, noticed some odd activity around his hives. Something was hunting his honeybees. It was a flying insect bigger than a yellowjacket, mostly black with bright yellow legs. The creature would hover at the hive entrance, capture a honeybee in flight, and butcher it before darting off with the bee’s thorax, the meatiest bit.
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S29What If Iran Already Has the Bomb? For the first time, Iranian officials are openly threatening to build a nuclear weaponâand even intimating that they already have.
There's rarely a dull moment in Iranian affairs. The past few months alone have seen clashes with Israel and Pakistan, and a helicopter crash that killed Iran's president and foreign minister. But spectacular as these events are, the most important changes often happen gradually, by imperceptible degrees.
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S30Nuclear Energy's Bottom Line The United States used to build nuclear-power plants affordably. To meet our climate goals, we'll need to learn how to do it again.
Nuclear energy occupies a strange place in the American psycheârepresenting at once a dream of endless emissions-free power and a nightmare of catastrophic meltdowns and radioactive waste. The more prosaic downside is that new plants are extremely expensive: America's most recent attempt to build a nuclear facility, in Georgia, was supposed to be completed in four years for $14 billion. Instead it took more than 10 years and had a final price tag of $35 billionâabout 10 times the cost of a natural-gas plant with the same energy output.
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