My new weapon in the war on distraction, the aptly named Pomodoro app
Combined with time spent absorbing and integrating the Pomodoro Technique, it’s amazing what having this innocuous little timer staring me back in the face can do when my mind wanders.
The resistance grows in strength as we get closer to shipping, as we get closer to an insight, as we get closer to the truth of what we really want. That’s because the lizard [brain] hates change and achievement and risk.
Seth Godin, Quieting the lizard brain
These and other insights from Linchpin, Godin’s new book. It’s outstanding.
Source: sethgodin.typepad.com
Fast Future CEO Rohit Talwar discussing a joint U.K. government/Fast Future study on the top 20 most popular future jobs of 2030
Source: smartplanet.com
Things startups do and don't need
Both a check list for what to do and not do, as well as an early warning signal for when a venture has gone corporate.
Source: cdixon
After a decade of truly spectacular underachievement, what we need now is less management and more freedom — fewer individual automatons and more autonomous individuals.
Source: danpink.com
Many people think that before they can do what they want to be known for doing, they first need to pay their dues. The problem is that once they start paying their dues, they never get around to doing the thing they always wanted to do.
… But eventually, if you do that thing prolifically and beautifully, you will become known as a person who does that thing prolifically and beautifully.
Jonathan Harris, “World Building in a Crazy World”
From the “Reputation” vignette, one of fifteen, containing in part and in whole insights into communicating and creating with purpose that are well worth reading.
Source: number27.org
"Try this career choice standard on for size."
Will this choice allow me to:
- Spend the greatest amount of time
- Absorbed in activities and relationships that fill me up
- While surrounding myself with people I cannot get enough of, and
- Earning enough to live comfortably in the world?
Fact is, this definition of success keeps me honest.
Apply it, test it, kick its wheels & see what unfolds.
This is Jonathan Fields’ formula (paraphrased) for shaping a meaningful work life; “great work,” as Michael Stanier would call it. Fields’ is one of the most succinct but intuitively powerful litmus tests I’ve seen. It sets a very high bar, and that’s good.
Source: changethis.com
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
Pink states clearly what I suspect most of us know intuitively, even if we don’t give the knowledge concious attention or, worse yet, actively supress it: that it’s internal, not external, factors that truly determine our happiness. Or as Pink puts it, intrinsic rather than extrinsic motivators; specifically autonomy, mastery and purpose.
Thanks to Neil Sanderson for the pointer.
Source: ted.com
