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As we close out the year, I have rounded up two of my favourite hobbies - reading and music (including dancing to the music). Over this time, some of us get more of a break than others. If you do happen to have spare time, please consider reading at least one of the recommended books. Intersperse it with fiction as this genre is a great way to unwind – it has also been proven to develop your strategic thinking. Of course, I would love for you to listen to all the songs and energise yourself by dancing to them.
Thank you for your support in 2021. I look forward to connecting with you in 2022.
Happy year-end!
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Recommended Books of 2021
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Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research, Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success.
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Charming, charismatic, and delightful or manipulative, self-serving, and cunning? Thomas reveals how to identify the psychopaths in your life and combat their efforts to control and manipulate.
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‘Sometimes, you win by not playing the game. The game the Advice Monster want you to play is about having the best answer. “This” it whispers in your ear, “is how to add value, how you save the world, how you stay in control, how you stave off the fear of failure, how you show your quality. Always have the answer.” You can be known as the person who helps articulate the critical issue or as the person who provides hasty answers to solve the wrong problem. Which would you prefer? Exactly.’
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‘Conversation is a meeting of the minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. That’s the part that interests me. That’s where I find the excitement. It’s like a spark that two minds create. And what I really care about is what new conversational banquets one can create from those sparks.’
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‘If you just show up and work hard, you’ll soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you fail to get better. This is what happened to me with my guitar playing, the chess players who stuck to tournament play, and to most knowledge workers who simply put in the hours: We all hit plateaus.’
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‘I believe Hyper-Learning will be necessary for human beings to do the skills that technology will not be able to do well: higher-order thinking involving creativity, imagination and innovation as well as critical thinking that is not linear or that involves moral judgements or little data.’
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From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in our success.
‘And yet, according to these thinkers, there was a way we could productively harness our self-interest. We humans have one phenomenal talent, they said, a saving grace that sets us apart from other living creatures. It’s this gift that we could cling to. This was the miracle on which we might pin our hopes. Reason.’
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‘To demonstrate that they are there to offer emotional support, people are usually motivated to find out exactly what happened to upset us – the who-what-when-where-why of the problem. They ask us to relate what we felt and tell them in detail what occurred. And though they may not and communicate empathy when we narrate what happened, this commonly results in leading us to relive the very feelings and experiences that have driven us to seek out support in the first place, a phenomenon called co-rumination’.
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Happy Holidays!
Wishing you and your loved ones a very joyous festive season filled with love and happiness.
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Please take part in our longitudinal study, ‘The Impact of Not Being Listened to’.
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Our prayers and thoughts continue to be with those who are impacted by COVID-19
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