Tools for Change – January 2025
Dr. Chris Stout
LinkedIn Top Voice | Best Selling Author | Adventurer | Startup Whisperer | (Accidental) Humanitarian | APA's "Rockstar" Psychologist | éminence Grise
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.
Tools for Being Smarter
People are biased towards solving problems through addition rather than subtraction, so take something away..?
Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan.
A practical) way to improve your memory, recall, and retention.
This video breaks down five actionable, research-backed techniques to?sharpen your concentration.
7 ways to remember names more effectively.
New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast, Drs. Randy Brazie and Geoffrey VanderPal on the New Science of Decision Making
With their combined expertise in both business and medicine, Drs. Geoffrey VanderPal and Randy Brazie have developed an approach to do just that - by taking the latest scientific understanding of the human nervous system, drawing upon the Polyvagal Theory, to understand how the brain and the gut can make decisions together.
?In their new book, The Steadfast Leader: Control Anxiety, Make Confident Decisions, and Focus Your Team Using the New Science of Leadership, they provide an approach that shifts away from the tension caused by "either-or" to using "both-and" and how that works better in every situation. Their work provides fascinating research findings along with real-world case studies and relatable examples that demonstrate practical, cutting-edge neuroscientific concepts that can help you stay focused and make better decisions―for yourself, your team, and your organization. ?
Tools for Productivity ?
Key lessons from 10 influential productivity books (from friend and recent guest, Scott H. Young)
Start using Apple Intelligence with these 6 new productivity hacks.
This hidden iPhone feature makes filing your expense reports a breeze.
3 simple steps for freeing up Gmail storage space in minutes.
Big Tech’s experimental AI can’t beat these old-school productivity gems.
Tools for Living Your Life in Full
TED Talks to be a better you in 2025.
James Clear’s guide to turning New Year's Resolutions into lasting habits.
What a “winter arc” is and how you can use it to supercharge your resolutions.
Passion, purpose and gratitude – “Revolution over Resolutions” in 2025.
Do it your way.
Tools for Your Career
Job interviews are changing. Here are five strategies to ace the skills-based interview.
Job seekers are using AI to fight AI.
Silent firing is the new quiet quitting.
How to showcase your AI skills to land a job in 2025.
Why Gen-Z workers are consciously unbossing.
Tools Just for Fun
52 things I learned in 2024.
My Spotify Wrap for 2024.
Yo! Have you ever seen a yo-yo dance like this?
Spotify Wrapped is out, and it’ll take you on your own personal Eras Tour.
TimeMap.org?presents a world map with a slider bar that starts at 4000 BC and ends at the present day. As you slide through time, you watch empires rise and fall and any interesting civilization or event you spot can be instantly researched.
The nooks and crannies of Amsterdam are a canvas for Frankley’s playful interventions.
Tools for Health and Wellness ??????????
The 10 healthiest vegetables you can eat.
Sorry, kale. beans are the new nutrition obsession.
Tools for Longevity & Healthspan
The best specific workout routine for life extension.
The best diet for longevity.
Even one glass of wine?can hold you back.
Human longevity: Can it be further extended?
Oldies-But-Goodies from Peter Attia, MD.
Tools for Fitness and Performance
How fit are you? See how you measure up.
15 healthy carbs that can help you maintain energy without the sugar crash.
Use this balance test to check your balance, flexibility and coordination.
Tools for Mental Health ?
Physically writing down looming tasks can be a stress buster.
Meditation isn’t about?finding?time but?making?space—unlocking clarity, focus, and calm in the chaos of your schedule.
Discover?the freedom in letting go?of what’s not yours to carry.
Tools for Relationships
We say "I love you" often—but do we tell the people in our lives?why?we love them??
When expressing gratitude, timing matters.
A ridiculous, perfect way to make friends.
How dog parks become unexpected hubs for?stress relief and meaningful social interaction.?
Tough conversations are inevitable - here is how to face them with confidence.
Tools for Parents
One of the longest-running studies of child development ever couldn’t be clearer: if you want to raise happy, successful kids, focus on this.
Tools for Leadership
All good leaders have this mindset, no matter their background.
4 leadership trends to watch in 2025.
How to be a great leader-even when you haven’t received any training.
This is how to be an empathic leader during stressful times.
Why gratitude is your best leadership strategy.
Tools for Founders
The benefits of skills based hiring.
Should I demote an employee who can’t do the job?
This VC firm developed a fitness program for startup founders.
I feel exploited by my employees.
25 hard questions every founder should ask themselves.
Tools for Creativity
How connecting learning to real-world impact fosters curiosity, empathy, and deeper engagement in gifted learners.
The design industry is broken. These design coaches want to fix it.
Why great design has always been sustainable.
‘My mind is never asleep’ - will.i.am 8 rules for living a creative life.
Tools for Being Ethical
The importance of giving: How to connect altruism, optimism and social impact.
MacKenzie Scott donates another $2 billion in 2024.
Tools for Wealth Management
WSJ answers your questions on Roth IRA conversions.
An Oxford study found a link between owning a home and living longer.
Tools for Investing
Marketplace Pulse Year in Review 2024.
What you can learn from young Warren Buffett - by Jason Zweig.
Tools for AI
See my “AI Twin” in action, and here’s where “I’m” available for consultation 24/7. Welcome to the future!
MIT’s top artificial intelligence articles are now free to read for a limited time. This collection highlights what leaders need to know about AI, including strategies for achieving success with generative AI and managing AI’s risks.
How Scale became the go-to company for AI training.
Apple just brought ChatGPT to iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Here’s how to make the most of it
Meta’s Llama 3.1 is open-source, kind of. Here’s how it could reshape the AI race.
Eddie AI is one of the best video editing tools out there.
Tools for Your Practice ?
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Tools for Technology ???
3 simple steps for freeing up Gmail storage space in minutes.
Must-watch tech talks of 2024.
Is SEO Dead? Because that would make a lot of sense.
Tools from TED
TED Talks to make you hopeful for 2025.
Most mind-blowing TED Talks of 2024.
Most popular TED Talks of 2024.
A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset.
Tools for Sustainability
3 ways fast fashion takes a costly toll on the planet.
Building a sustainable home could get more expensive under Trump.
Why 1.5 degrees has failed as a climate messaging strategy.
The surprising way this potato chip factory slashed its emissions.
Denmark is returning 15% of its farmland back to nature.
Tools for Inclusion
What doctors should know about gender identity.
What DEI gets wrong - and how to do it right.
How to stop tiptoeing around disability at work.
Does changing the language of DEI protect companies?
This addictive website is a master class in feminist design history.
Tools for Advocacy ?
Why Melinda French Gates is committing $150 million to support women in the workplace.
A new model for legal advocacy.
Tools for Writing and For Getting Published
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Tools for Public Health
Tools for Global Work and Policy
Tools for Finding Conferences
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.
New Scientist Jobs USA is the best way to take the next step in your career in the life sciences, biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and more.
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?jobs board?in PND, it includes foundation, public charity, education, and nonprofit jobs.
Positions from BioSpace
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 CMOs,
Tools to Travel the World
The best travel advice forums.
Google Search’s?features?include?a flight price guarantee badge on what Google thinks is the lowest price. If you book with Google and the price drops, you’ll be refunded the difference.
If you love an itinerary, try this?travel-planning app.?
GlobeTips - Tip Calculator & Tipping Guide
CBP MPC - Mobile Passport Control
TheFork - great app for booking restaurant reservations in more than 30,000 restaurants in Europe
Xe Currency Converter - Realtime foreign currency exchange rates
Travel Carbon Neutral - Luggage Requirements - State Department Warnings - World Weather - Customs Service - Travel Documents ?- FAA - Travel Advisory - International Travel Health
A Gym Membership for Your Brain
If you enjoy this newsletter, I suspect you’d enjoy our monthly podcast. Listen on your favorite platform https://pod.link/1281672367 and for a free subscription: https://tinyurl.com/ALifeInFullSubscription
Likewise, if you are not already following my LinkedIn Influencer/Top Voices posts in a group with almost a half-million followers, you may enjoy reading the posts there as well. ?
Tools for Humanitarian Intervention and Nonprofits
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 Inspiration
“All this hand wringing worry and concern over how are people viewing me — someone said something bad about me, and you get so upset about it — is wasted time and energy. Your only focus should be on getting better at what you're doing. Focus on what you are doing. Get better at what are you doing. Everything else is a waste of time.” - Jerry Seinfeld
“In every life there is a moment—an event or a realization-that changes that life irrevocably. If the change is to be a happy one, one must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay. Rose Kennedy once told me that good luck is something you make and bad luck is something you endure, a very wise observation indeed. People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility.” - Estée Lauder
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” ?- William James
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,?Fortune Well, 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, Future of Health & Medicine Newsletter, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Noah Kagen/AppSumo, Fast Co., AI and Health, The Hustle, Tim Ferriss, Sparktype, TED, Good Life Project, AI Healthcare News, New York Times, Recomendo, We Study Markets, The Six Minute Mile, Oaktree Capital, Gust, Matter, NgoHacks, OnnIt, and Morning Brew - be sure to check them out. And as always, I have no financial, marketing or affiliate relationship with any of the sources noted herein. This newsletter is about my giving back. All that I share herein is from my heart and head, and is what I would like to have someone tell me about. I hope you find it of use.
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Cheers, and keep in touch,
Chris
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