My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!

Seth Gordon not only looks different, more importantly he also thinks differently

The generosity boomerang

Here’s conventional wisdom:

Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous.

In fact, it actually works like this:

Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Do You Trust Yourself? Should You?

It’s a compelling headline: Stop Trusting Yourself. By Northeastern University psychologist David DeSteno, it’s featured in today’s NYTimes, and ostensibly shows that we mistakenly trust ourselves – that if anything, we mis-estimate our own trustworthiness more than that of others. Read this profound article by Charles H.Green

The Dreaded Curse of Comparison

Of all the lessons there are to learn in life, one stands out for me. What is that lesson? It’s learning to be myself. Read on.

Is Your Life A Super Highway or a Garden Path?

So many of us feel like our lives are a race – a dash. We are sprinting through the events of our lives to get them “all done.” We have amazing to-do lists; we are compelled to achieve and accomplish; society says this is how we get ahead. We pride ourselves on being so productive.

But what if, instead, the value of life were not in the dash and amount of things we do, but in the quality of life’s events – in the time we spend enjoying, connecting and becoming part of what we do? What if life were more like a garden path than a superhighway?

If you’re living in the northern hemisphere, and therefore – most likely/hopefully (you choose) – about to go on holidays, here are some book recommendations.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!