Grant Gochnauer: Awesome Humans — Issue #198
Awesome Human
The Only Dependable Source of Happiness — www.raptitude.com
“The great truth my “secret ally” practice hinted at, and which Stoics like Marcus Aurelius understood through and through, is that there’s a certain kind of happiness you can create by practicing being a certain way in the world. And the work that you do on that level — unlike everything else in life — is impervious to circumstances. Aurelius described this process of cultivating your character as carrying within you an invincible fountain of contentment.”
The Third Self — getpocket.com
“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart — to pace, to chew pencils, to scribble and erase and scribble again. But just as often, if not more often, the interruption comes not from another but from the self itself, or some other self within the self, that whistles and pounds upon the door panels and tosses itself, splashing, into the pond of meditation. And what does it have to say? That you must phone the dentist, that you are out of mustard, that your uncle Stanley’s birthday is two weeks hence. You react, of course. Then you return to your work, only to find that the imps of idea have fled back into the mist.”
9 Toxic Mental Habits That the Most Emotionally Intelligent People Avoid — getpocket.com
“The problem with most irrational thinking is that it brings unwarranted anxiety and stress along for the ride. Get rid of it by using the emotional intelligence counterparts to avoid the fallout that comes with irrationality. Your colleagues (and spouse) will thank you.”
Why Some People Get Burned Out and Others Don’t — getpocket.com
“As one of us (Annie) has written about before, research suggests that emotional intelligence (EI) supports superior coping abilities and helps people deal with chronic stress and prevent burnout. Emotional self-awareness, one of the components of EI, for example, allows us to understand the sources of our frustration or anxiety and improves our ability to consider different responses. Self-management, another EI competency, allows us to stay calm, control impulses, and act appropriately when faced with stress.”
Healthy Human
The Everything Guide to Getting Good Sleep — Better Humans — medium.com
“I know I’ve probably made the point, but I just want to add one more bit of information that seems key to me. Sleep is the only time our body uses the glymphatic system, which is essentially a power-washing system for cleaning the brain. That’s right: sleep is the only time our body cleans our most important organ. The importance of the glymphatic system has led researchers to believe this it is an essential component in understanding how a lack of sleep contributes to psychiatric illness like bipolar and schizophrenia. So, sleep is one of the most important things you can optimize, be it to improve your performance mentally or physically, lose weight, avoid disease, avoid psychiatric illness such as depression, live a longer life, or avoid heart disease and stroke. This is actually what I love about sleep: you can do so much to optimize it right now, today, without buying any gear or supplements.”
Human Builders
Startup Playbook — playbook.samaltman.com
Great!
“To have a successful startup, you need: a great idea, a great market, a great team, a great product, and great execution.”
The Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence — www.thejuntoinstitute.com
Raman at the Junto Institute: “I’ve been learning, practicing, and speaking about emotional intelligence for about 10 years. But it wasn’t until six months ago that I finally discovered how best to describe the concept, and the feedback I received only reinforced that discovery.”
Future Humans
Jack Ma and Elon Musk hold debate in Shanghai — www.youtube.com
Watch: “Alibaba co-founder and executive chairman Jack Ma and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hold a debate in Shanghai over artificial intelligence.”
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time — phys.org
“Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum computers.”
MIT’s new thread-like robots could travel through blood vessels in the brain for more effective surgery — techcrunch.com
“MIT has developed robotic thread that could make even the least invasive current brain surgery techniques even less so, and potentially make it easier and more accessible to treat brain blood vessel issues like blockages and lesions that can cause aneurysms and strokes.”
One More Thing
Eric Prydz’s 5-ton Holosphere shows the ambitious future of concert tech — www.theverge.com
Wow — AWESOME:
“In the first episode of The Future of Music season 2, Dani Deahl goes to London to see Eric Prydz’s new EPIC: Holosphere show built from the ground up. It’s a custom, 5-ton LED sphere inside which Prydz performs, and his most ambitious project to date.”
