Tools for Change – January 2023

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Welcome to the latest edition the monthly newsletter, Tools for Change – A Convenient Digest and Curated Collection of Information, Tools and Resources to Help You in Your Life and Work

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast

January’s guest on my podcast is CEO and Retired Navy SEAL, Marty Strong on Asymmetric Creativity and Leadership.

What is the journey like to move from enlisting in the Navy at age 17, being recruited into the SEALs instead of going to law school, then serving as a SEAL Team member for twenty years, leading combat missions and helping to design and test new special operations capabilities while becoming a combat-decorated officer and later instructor, to next becoming an entrepreneur, novelist and nonfiction author, CEO and Chief Strategy Officer, Portfolio Manager, sought-after media expert and keynote speaker, while being a father of five and beating cancer – twice?

Well, that’s what Marty Strong will be discussing in this episode, and how to apply what he’s learned, to your life and work.

He’s appeared on CNN, Fox News, Inside Edition, and was a featured?expert on two History Channel documentaries. In all, Marty has over 400 TV and radio interviews to his credit.?Marty has taken the thread of leadership to stitch together the fabric of his vibrant, albeit challenging career and life.

There is so much we covered in this episode – leadership, overcoming adversity, BUDs and being a SEAL Team Member and instructor, author, entrepreneur, and more. Marty certainly lives his life in full, and in the service of others in so many ways. This is a great conversation with an amazing leader, be sure to tune in on your favorite platform, or if you’re not into podcasts, read all about it on my LinkedIn Top Voice post.

Well Said

“One way to tell how good people are at empathy is to watch them explain a technical matter to someone without a technical background.” - Paul Graham?

“The cure for imposter syndrome is to realize that all the other people are just convincing imposters, too.” - Alison Gopnik

“Sometimes the hardest decisions a person can make will most likely lead to the best outcomes.” - Colleen Hoover

“Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it. In fact, the people who don’t have their habits handled are often the ones with the least amount of freedom. Without good financial habits, you will always be struggling for the next dollar. Without good health habits, you will always seem to be short on energy. Without good learning habits, you will always feel like you’re behind the curve.” - James Clear

Tools for Productivity

15 Science-Backed Ways to Get Work Done - We’re often given hacks or planners to help with our productivity, but these fall short. Here’s what science says actually works to do more work better.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

Flip the Script to Take Control of Stressful Situations?- A sense of control is the glue that holds our rational brain together when we face challenges. Without it, we spiral. When we lack control, tasks feel harder, pain feels more intense, and doubts seem louder. Our motivation plummets as we head toward apathy, hopelessness, and a lack of will. This explores how to maintain some degree of control during difficulty.

Life is Hard, How Philosophy Can Help?- Kieran Setiya, a moral philosopher at MIT discusses navigating a midlife crisis, his mindfulness practice, altruism, social media, telic (outcome) vs atelic (process) activities, ritual and religion, and the future of philosophy.

Ideas That Changed My Life - Morgan Housel?You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…

Tools for Wealth Management

Getting Wealthy vs. Staying Wealthy - Good investing is not necessarily about making good decisions. It’s about consistently not screwing up. There are a million ways to get wealthy, and plenty of books on how to do so. But there’s only one way to stay wealthy: some combination of frugality and paranoia.

Preparing Your Finances For 2023: Financial Resolutions for the New Year

Tools for Fitness and Performance

How to Salvage a Workout After a Bad Night of Sleep - A tip for working out after a bad night’s sleep: exercise in the morning. Research has found the negative effects of sleep deprivation are lowest in the morning and grow as the day goes on.

The Speedy Scientific Workout You Can Do Almost Anywhere - If you want to do more of anything, the key is to make it easier. This workout routine does exactly that because you don’t need a gym membership or special equipment to get started. Plus, it’s backed by a fascinating new research study, and the potential benefits are downright impressive.

The Basics of Fitness: A Program For Everyone - A detailed guide to well-rounded fitness and how to develop it at any stage of life. It dives into the difference between strength and aerobic training, minimum effective doses, and so much more. If you are overwhelmed and confused about fitness advice, this one is for you.

The Difference Between Tolerating Pain and Performing Well: Examining the "Goggins" Approach to Toughness - Tolerating pain and dealing with suffering are valuable skills in and of themselves. But they are different from peak performance. This post explores the gap.

Tools for your Career

How Workers Become Seduced by the Cult of 'Optimal Busyness' - Why do we overload our schedules, all the while complaining about how busy we are? One research-based explanation is that busyness can become addictive, making it physically uncomfortable to return to a healthy balance.

Your Boss Is Over Hybrid Work. Here’s How to Keep Your Flexibility - Here’s a strategy for those being pressured to return to the office: focus on creating more visibility. If the work you’re doing and the value you’re bringing is evident to your supervisor, he or she will often be less concerned about where you’re logging in from.

Your Ideal Mentor May Be Younger Than You - If you want to stay on top of the latest trends and prepare for the future of your industry, here’s a thought-provoking idea: find a mentor who’s younger than you. When we seek out opportunities to learn from younger colleagues, we open ourselves up to insights and ideas that most leaders overlook.

Tools for Investing

Some Thoughts on Investing, an Ongoing List - You can’t always run from controversy, instead you need to find controversy and reject it.?Super-normal returns in the public markets rarely live in pristine stories without any controversy or issue. If you have found one, returns are unlikely to exist there for long.

An hour of storytelling from two of the best in Hollywood. Their business partnership spans 37 years and they remain as curious as ever to connect with audiences around the world. If you want to build a long and successful company, this is for you. Pair with?A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life?Brian's entertaining book delves further into the "curious conversations" that have spurred some of his most successful TV shows & movies.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Knew That Stocks Would Fall? - by Jason Zweig

Tools Just for Fun

The Opposite of Schadenfreude Is Freudenfreude. Here’s How to Cultivate It. - Sometimes it’s difficult to celebrate the accomplishments of friends and colleagues, especially when we’re disappointed in our own progress. New research suggests that’s a missed opportunity. Turns out that there’s a science to taking joy in others’ successes, and using it can elevate your life satisfaction and improve the quality of your relationships.

Tools for Founders

Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist?- Bill Gurley’s list of things that might indicate corporate malfeasance. Bookmark it. Pair with Bill Gurley?on all things business and investing.

Tools for Parents

How to Raise a Champion? Chill Out! - A look at what?actually?matters for talent development and the common traps that so many parents, coaches, teachers, and managers fall into (and how to avoid them).

Tools for AI

Quick Thoughts on AI - Craig Shapiro’s feed filled with lots of thoughts, predictions, jokes, and more about ChatGPT.

Tools for Health and Wellness

Secrets of ‘SuperAgers’ Who Possess Brains as Sharp as People 20 to 30 Years Younger - By studying the brains—and lifestyles—of the world’s sharpest senior citizens, researchers have discovered several environmental factors that likely strengthen and support our brains as we age. Positivity, a love of reading, a desire to keep learning, and lots of social engagement are all common traits of SuperAgers.

Tools for Public Health

The Public Health National Center for Innovations

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health

Public Health Foundation

Tools for Global Work and Policy

Center for Strategic and International Studies

APA’s Global Insights Newsletter

Tools for Finding Conferences

Conal Conference Alerts

Neurology and Psychiatry

Tools for Healthcare Career Insights

Curated from Medpage Today

Tools for a New Gig

Here’s Behavioral Health Tech’s jobs board?to see?all of the current?opportunities?from the leading companies in behavioral health. If you are looking for a new job and want BHT’s community of hiring companies to seek you out, then join their talent collective as a candidate for free here.

Or, if you want access to the central place for job candidates of all levels and roles focused on mental health and substance use tech, then enroll as a hiring company here.

See?who’s hiring?in health and fitness here.

From 80,000 Hours - There are a variety of ways to contribute to?global priorities research, including?academic research,?working as a?grantmaker, and?doing charity evaluation.

To browse or search hundreds of recent job postings, visit the?job board?in PND, it includes foundation, public charity, education, and nonprofit jobs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, the District of Columbia, and elsewhere.

Positions from BioSpace

• Academic?
• Biotechnology?
• Diagnostics?
• Government
• Healthcare?
• Medical Device?
• Non-Profit?
• Pharmaceutical?
• Research Institute?

DiversityMD is a Career Job Board and Information Resource for Physicians regardless of age, race, gender, religion, education, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or physical characteristics. They are a “niche” website for Physicians of all levels of practice from Medical Students, Residents, Fellows on up to Medical Directors and CMO’s.

Tools to Travel the World

How Do You Fight Jet Lag? Formula 1 Teams Have Their Ways

Grosvenor Teacher Fellowships From National Geographic

National Geographic professional development grants?

Earth Expedition?

Ford Foundation Global Travel & Learning Fund?

Institute of International Education?

Google conference and study scholarship?

Omprakash Ethical global engagement grants?

Tata Trust Travel grants

A Gym Membership for Your Brain

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Tools for Humanitarian Intervention

Please visit our website: https://www.centerforglobalinitiatives.org/. We’re proud to be a top ranked Great Nonprofit (since 2013!) and to have achieved Platinum Level from GuideStar.

Tools for Connecting

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Tools for Better Understanding Science

As I have opined in past articles like How to Protect Yourself from Fad Science and my three part series, The Reproducibility Problem—Can Science be Trusted? , —Shame on us?, and —What’s a Scientist to do??This is a near-and-dear topic and concern of mine.

And my four-parter:?Strong Opinions Loosely Held: Science, Psychology, Misinformation, Vaccines, and Prosocial Ways to Respond.

Overwhelmed by Opinion Disguised as Fact and Relentless Clickbait? I subscribed to 1440 because it provides an impartial view of what’s happening in the world so I can form my own conclusions, and share in my posts with peace of mind. 1440 scours hundreds of sources each day so I don’t have to. I get it every morning in a short, briefing thoughtfully curated by experts. Join me and over 1 million daily readers today. Of course, it’s free.

In Closing

And even though I know our readers are very smart, I nevertheless have to say that this newsletter does not provide medical, psychological, legal, financial, healthcare, or any other form of advice. As I have said elsewhere, don’t be a knucklehead.

Big thank you to meta-sourcing sites and folks: BioSpace, Ron Friedman, PhD, Inc., Farnum Street’s Brain Food, McKinsey & Co., Medpage, MedScape, Joe Koster from Value Investing World, FirstRound, Get Rich Slowly, Ramit Sethi, Forbes InnovationRx, The Knowledge Project - organized by theme, 80,000 Hours, The Collaborative Fund, Colossus, Sonny Patel, Unmistakable Media, Top Tier,?NeuroFlow, Five-Bullet Friday, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, Health Data Management Group, Fitt, PodcastNotes, SparkType, Budgets Are Sexy, Behavioral Health Tech, Next Big Idea Club – Heleo, Section 4, - be sure to check them out. And as always, I have no financial, marketing or affiliate relationship with any of the sources noted herein.

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Chris

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