Tools for Change – November 2023
Dr. Chris Stout
LinkedIn Top Voice | Best Selling Author | Adventurer | Startup Whisperer | (Accidental) Humanitarian | APA's "Rockstar" Psychologist | éminence Grise
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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.
Editor’s Note: This edition is a bit shorter than usual as I was invited to the MedTech Conference in Malta and I needed to do some additional travel while in Europe. As a result, my time was limited in curating and compiling during October. Nevertheless, I hope you find the following to be of use. - Chris
New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast, Valerie Plame’s Modern Odyssey (and Cautionary Tale) of Speaking Truth to Power on Living a Life in Full.
On July 6, 2003, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, Robert Novak revealed in his Washington Post column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative.
It ended her covert career and set off a political scandal that rocked the Bush/Cheney White House. The public disclosure of that secret information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and the Wilsons' civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration.
Valerie had worked to protect America’s national security and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in particular, nuclear weapons. All that ended, with the public disclosure.
Valerie has amazing resilience and skillsets. Today she is serves on a number of boards and is affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, the trans-disciplinary scientific think tank created by two Nobel Prize winners to address the most compelling and complex problems in the world today.
Valerie has lectured throughout the country and internationally on cyber security issues, national security, nuclear proliferation, women in intelligence, and the NSA revelations, and authored The New York Times best-selling memoir Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, which was also released as a major motion picture of the same name starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts.
Along with Sarah Lovett, she’s written two fictional spy thrillers Blowback and Burned. She also served as the narrator and appeared as an expert in the film Countdown to Zero, a documentary on the threat of nuclear war. Valerie also heads up the TED-like annual conference, Spies, Lies, and Nukes in Santa Fe.
Valerie is a force of nature, and we cover a lot of territory in our conversation, which is not to be missed.
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
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -- Steven King
“Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.” - David McRaney
“Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.” - Ralph Marston
Tools for Productivity
How to Add More Margin in Your Day.
3 Daily Rituals to Boost Your Focus and Make You More Productive.
The best tools for organizing your ideas, contacts, and calendars.
James Clear and Google Agree This Is the Easiest Way to Radically Increase Your Productivity.
3 Ways to Stop Procrastination and Be More Productive.
How to Take Control of Your Busy Day.
Tools for Living Your Life in Full
How can you make big changes, but lack the time? Adam Bulger reveals how to create lasting improvement through?micro habits.
Noble Purpose: Joy of Living a Meaningful Life?by William Damon.
7 Important Skills and Abilities That Peak After 40.
The credo of The School of Life.
Use boredom to spark self-reflection, then take small steps towards stimulation or joy.
Tired of Feeling Like You Fell Short? How to Set and Achieve Your Biggest Goals.
The Thin Line Between Bold and Reckless - by Morgan Housel.
Tools for Your Career
How to Handle?a Poor Performance Review.
5 steps to fix any problem at work.
Self-sabotaging career moves and how to avoid them.
Tools for Being Smarter
How to get better at remembering names.
How to regain focus and re-find your motivation.
Chirag Malik reveals how real-world skills come from unexpected places. Dive into his thoughtful reflections on?5 nonfiction books that taught him more than his college degree. ?
Sam Altman is the Oppenheimer of our age.
If You Can Pass Any of These 4 Tests, Science Says You're More Emotionally Intelligent Than You Might Think.
Tools for Wealth Management
How to Approach Estate Planning for Visionary Business Owners.
Tax Moves to Consider Now Before 2017 Cuts Expire.
How You Can Optimize Your Retirement Savings - by Phil Weiss.
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Tools for Investing
Top Takeaways from Oaktree’s Quarterly Letters.
Bill Gross on the End of the Great Bond Bull Market.
Tools Just for Fun
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator.
The best feel-good movies for when you need a serotonin boost.
Tools for Leadership
Why Company Leaders Must Model Work-Life Balance.
Are performance reviews useful?
How to be a magnetic leader.
The 5 rules leaders need to follow to create belonging at work.
8 Steps to Implement Head-and-Heart Business Leadership.
Overcoming Delegation Anxiety.
5 ways to be a leader (even if you’re not the boss).
The 4 hallmarks of effective remote leadership.
Tools for Founders
Insights Learned From Raising $1.5 Million in Startup Funding.
Want to Make Your Business More Sustainable? Nonprofits Can Help.
How to Get Beyond the Revenue Growth Plateau.
5 Things That Make a Business Valuable in Any Market - Understanding why some businesses get bought and others don't.
Entrepreneurship Boomed but Didn't Bust - Are We on the Verge of a New Economy?
Tools for Relationships
Signs you’re suffering from social exhaustion—and 4 tips to beat it.
When someone you care about loses a loved one, with understanding, we can walk alongside those who grieve, learn more about how to show up for someone grieving.
Tools for Health and Wellness
Why ‘daily-ish’ habits can be better than everyday routines.
How Much Your Mindset Affects Your Physical Health.
Study Could Lead to Sobering Insights.
Tools for Fitness and Performance
Tools for Mental Health
ML predicts suicidal ideation?among sexual, gender minority individuals.
Tools for Parents
The Internet Is Going Wild for a 1970s Lego Instruction Pamphlet. It's a Fantastic Lesson in Marketing (and Parenting).
The No. 1 Mistake Well-Intentioned Parents Make That Harms Their Kids.
Smart Parents Say This When They Get Home From Work. Most Parents Do the Opposite.
How every child can thrive by five.
领英推荐
Tools for Creativity
The reason anxiety kills creativity.
YouTube?is rolling out four?AI-powered tools?for creators.?
Tools for AI
ChatGPT Can Now Talk to You—and Look Into Your Life.
Now hear this: ChatGPT now listens and sees.
Tools for Data Analytics
How one ACO used predictive analytics to fuel its VBC efforts.
3 ways to spot a bad statistic.
Tools for Your Practice
How to Afford Your Private Practice.
7 Ways to Get Safe, Accurate Clinical Support From ChatGPT.
Tools from TED
TED's secret to great public speaking.
Teach girls bravery, not perfection.
How your brain responds to stories - and why they're crucial for leaders.
Tools for Technology & Healthcare Trends
Here’s what AI startups get wrong about “ChatGPT for telehealth.”
Two physician leaders look at the dangers of clinical AI.
30 AI startups changing the future of healthcare.
Shape Your AI Future or Someone Else Will.
Tools for Inclusion
Make Inclusivity Part of Your Company's Story.
3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace.
Should I Suggest My Employee With Mobility Issues Get a Different Job? And three other tricky workplace dilemmas.
Tools for Getting Published
Join my Master Class in Getting Published – All 8 Courses are Free for a Limited Time
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 CMO’s.
Tools to Travel the World
Google Search’s?new 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.
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
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
If you would like to see more frequent updates and engage with others, please join the open Facebook groups at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALifeInFull and? https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives
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.
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, Future of Health & Medicine Newsletter, Forbes, ?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, Oaktree Capital, 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. (Please email me if links do not show and I'll send to you.)
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Chris
CEO & Founder @ High-Performance Executive Coaching | Certified Executive Coach, How To Retain Top Talent Now!
1 年I love micro habits they help me stay focused