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The Happiness Paradox
Think you’ll be happy if you reach all your goals? Think again. It turns out that the kinds of goals we choose to pursue matter just as much, if not more than, whether or not we actually reach them! Studies show that pursuing wealth, power, popularity, validation and fame – what psychologists call extrinsic goals – leads to only […]
You Can’t Teach Speed
Sprinters Falsify the Deliberate Practice Model of Expertise. From Michael Lombardo’s and Robert Deaners abstract of You Can’t Teach Speed: Most scientists agree that expertise requires both innate talent and proper training. Nevertheless, the highly influential deliberate practice model (DPM) of expertise holds that either talent does not exist, or that its contribution to performance […]
Lost Civilization in Cambodia
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/world/lost-civilization-in-cambodia-20130613-2o5v2.html?selectedImage=9 “Sydney University Professor Damien Evans is leading several teams of archaeologists to the discovery of an entire Ankor city in the Siem Reap region of Cambodia. Using new maps and LIDAR to discover previously unknown sites where previously only a few isolated temples were known to be. The holy plateau region known as Phnom […]
Tim Cook and Wearable Computing
http://allthingsd.com/20130529/apples-tim-cook-the-full-d11-interview-video/?mod=atd_homepage_carousel “Why the Nike Fuel Band Works and Google Glass Doesn’t” “AT THE ALL THINGS D CONFERENCE, THE TECH GIANT’S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF SHARED HIS THOUGHTS ON THE HOTTEST SPACE IN TECHNOLOGY: WEARABLES.” Via FastCodeDesign.com