Tools for Change – September 2022

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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

September’s guest on my podcast is Colin O’Brady on Making the Impossible Possible for Everyone.

Millions of people dream of living a more fulfilling life, yet many settle for a life of comfortable complacency, allowing excuses and negative thoughts to invade their minds. I don’t have enough time…I don’t have enough money…I’m afraid to fail...I don’t have what it takes—we allow these limiting beliefs to control us. Colin O’Brady has an empowered way of thinking that can help with that.

So who is Colin O’Brady? He’s a guy that knows a lot about mindset. He is a 10-time world record breaking explorer and one of the world’s best endurance athletes. He isn’t your typical adventurer despite his unmatched athletic accomplishments including a world-first solo crossing of Antarctica, a world-first ocean row across Drake Passage (from South America to Antarctica), and summiting Mt. Everest twice. Colin is an expert on mindset, a highly sought-after keynote speaker and a New York Times bestselling author. He’s also a television host, an executive producer and an entrepreneur who has built and sold companies. And, he’s done it all after overcoming a devastating accident - that nearly left him unable to walk - to prove that anything is possible.

Be sure to tune in on your favorite platform , or if you’re not into podcasts, read all about it on my LinkedIn Influencer post.

Well Said

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” - Henry David Thoreau

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Tools for Productivity

Grit: Bringing Passion Back ?by Scott Barry Kaufman / Scientific American - psychologists define grit as passion and perseverance for long-term goals — but the passion part often gets left out of the equation. Put simply: you can't have grit without passion! "One can be very consistent in completing tasks but not actually care all that much about the goals they are accomplishing. Authentic creativity requires a spark in addition to doggedness."

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

Big thank you to Tim Ferriss for organizing his more than 1,000 blog posts since 2006, you can?click here ?for some of the most popular of all time, categorized by theme. Or if you want to skip the multiple steps, here they are:

Practical Philosophy

Fitness & Health

Productivity

Business & Entrepreneurship

Language Learning

Book Recommendations

General Learning

Travel

Popular Videos from Tim’s YouTube Channel

Popular Presentations & Interviews on YouTube

Lifestyles - I have no idea how to find the perfect balance between internal and external benchmarks. But I know there’s a strong social pull toward external measures – chasing a path someone else set, whether you enjoy it or not. Social media makes it ten times more powerful. But I also know there’s a strong natural desire for internal measures – being independent, following your quirky habits, and doing what you want, when you want, with whom you want. That’s what people?actually?want. – Morgan Housel

Humble Exits - Leaving on top is, I think, something all of us aspire to, in one form or another. But it’s hard because those who make it to the top tend to be grinders, optimists, relentlessly dedicated to what they do. They made it far because they looked past the challenges competitors didn’t want to face and just kept plowing ahead. So the ability to wake up one day and say, “No more, I’m out,” is polar opposite to their prevailing skillset. - Morgan Housel

How to Stay Cool When You’re Put on the Spot - If you want to get ahead at work, you need to know how to respond gracefully when someone inevitably snaps at you in a meeting. Rule #1 is don’t start arguing. Ask a question to keep the person talking while you reel in your emotions and think through your next move. Doing so will make you look calm and in control.

Evaluating Information - A large part of wisdom is knowing what to ignore. A large part of expertise is knowing where to place your attention. If you can master them, the seven tricks Feynman created will help you avoid a lot of errors.

Rare Skills - The temptation to exploit every drop of opportunity leads many people to push relentlessly for more, more, more. They only discover the limits of what’s possible when they’ve gone too far, when the momentum of decline is often unstoppable.

Breaking Points - No one knows when something will break. It could be imminent or many years away.?No. One. Knows. As a result, people tend to push the throttle until it does.

Learning to choose quality over quantity ?- "Striving for a quantity-based life can lead us to feel ungrateful. When we choose quantity over quality, we can’t stop counting. This quest for more can make our lives feel empty...Our consumer-driven culture motivates us to upgrade possessions and increase the number of things we own. But the quantity of our belongings doesn’t improve the quality of our lives. Instead, it impairs it."

Daily happiness > future happiness ?- “THIS is the stuff that makes living life so joyful… The big goals are important and you get a bigger boost for hitting them, but they’re sooooo far and few between and if you’re not paying attention enough you’ll speed through life and miss out on everything else. And believe me – you do not want to Rip Van Winkle it and wish you could go back in time!”

Tools for Wealth Management

Why Your House Was So Expensive ?- Learn about the driving factors behind the housing affordability crisis, which is being fueled by supply chains, regulations, and other bottlenecks to innovation. Pair with Eli Dourado ?on productivity frontiers and problems.

Tools for Fitness and Performance

The more intensely you exercise, the bigger and stronger your brain grows — even in old age ?- "Study authors say that with more intense physical activity, the larger the brain regions actually were in volume and thickness of cortex." If this isn't a reason to work out hard, I don't know what is!

Tools for your Career

A Survival Guide for Dealing With a Bad Boss - It’s common to seek out a new job to avoid working with a bad boss, but that’s not always a practical solution. Before you make a hasty career move that may not be in your long-term interest, consider what you can do to manage your current situation. You’ll find several insightful ways to do that in this article. My favorite tip has to do with dealing with micromanagers. How do you tame a micromanager? Flood them with information so that they feel in control.

"This is a great list of red flags to look out for (especially numbers 6 & 10) I recently took a job and quit it after less than two months. I wish I had this red flag list prior to accepting the role." Join the conversation...

The best career decision you can possibly make. ?- "BE YOU. Be the only one of you in the whole world. Be the red. That’s where the fun is (without having to fake it). That’s where the money is (you can name your price). That’s where the value is (you can’t be replaced)."

How to choose your college degree ?-?“Until recently, college management and students’ career planning was my core professional focus: I had the privilege to notice first-hand how students approach decision-making, what works, what doesn’t, and how wrong sometimes it can get. I have a few ideas to share that might make the decision easier.”?This is a good article to share with the young adults in your life who are embarking upon their collegiate careers.

Tools for Investing

The Greatest Value Investor You've Never Heard Of

How to Get Rich - Author and professor Jared Diamond gave a talk in 1999 titled “How to Get Rich .” Given the year the talk was given, you might think that he recommended buying IPOs of all the hot technology companies, regardless of price. But no, the talk was about something different.

Bill Gurley on Surviving Downturns (older video )

Tools for Leadership

The neuroscience behind bad decisions ?- "For many of us, the main concern over decision-making is practical — how can we make better decisions? Glimcher said that his research has helped him develop specific strategies. 'Rather than pick what I hope is the best, instead I now always start by eliminating the worst element from a choice set,' he said, reducing the number of options to something manageable, like three."?I love the idea of allowing yourself to pick the worst option of the three best choices.

The Power Of Courage - Ryan Holiday Speaks To The US Naval Academy The Daily Stoic Podcast

Tools for Founders

Founder’s Mentality & The Paths to Sustainable Growth ?- An excellent video that explains why companies are unable to maintain their sense of insurgency and end up regressing to incumbency and then struggling bureaucracy. Pair with: McKinsey & Company .

Tools for Health and Wellness

Dr. Eric Topol on BA.5, next-gen vaccines, and America’s maddening capitulation to the virus.

5 Foam Rolling Exercises for Skeptics - Reduced stiffness, increased range of motion, greater flexibility — these are just a few of the research-backed benefits of foam rolling. It’s somewhat similar to a massage, but faster, easier, and less expensive. Discover how to give it a try (with instructional videos) in this article.?

Watching Sad Films Boosts Endorphin Levels in Your Brain, Psychologists Say -Movie night? Researchers believe you might benefit from choosing a sad film now and then. It promotes feelings of bonding and can even increase your pain tolerance by boosting certain chemicals in your brain.

Tools for Public Health

The Public Health National Center for Innovations

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health

Public Health Foundation

Tools for Relationships

Who do we spend our time with across our lifetimes? ?- "The message is not that we should be sad about the prospect of aging, but rather that we should recognize the fact that social connections are complex. We often tend to look at the amount of time spent with others as a marker of social well-being; but the quality of time spent with others, and our expectations, matter even more for our feelings of connection and loneliness."

The Tail End ?- As we swing into mid-summer, this is your periodic reminder that relationships are not evenly distributed through time. Spend time with the people that matter most to you.

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

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

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Tools for Humanitarian Intervention

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Tools for Connecting

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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 , O’Shaughnessy Asset Management , Health Data Management Group , Fitt , Budgets Are Sexy , Behavioral Health Tech - 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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