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Friday, June 24, 2016. Issue #78
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How to Fight Through Intellectual Discomfort | 99U
For professional athletes, facing and overcoming pain, adversity, and discomfort is all part of a day’s work. Knowledge workers, the majority of the workforce today, encounter a different type of adversity — intellectual discomfort.
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The Principles of Quantum Team Management | First Round Review
I didn’t intend to go into computer science, and I definitely didn’t expect to become a manager. Instead, I started out thinking I’d be a laboratory scientist. In college, this led me to astronomy and physics, which prompted me to start writing software.
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The Daily Pain of Having Extreme Perception | BBC Future
At the age of six, Jack Craven started telling his mother he wanted to die. “God made a mistake when he made me,” he would say. “Why can’t I just die?” His mother, Lori Craven, says she didn’t even know that kids his age could think such things: “Can you imagine your child saying that?”
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Grit and Authenticity | Scientific American
Success in accomplishing your goals requires grit: passion and perseverance over a long stretch of time. Grit requires constantly moving toward toward your north star-- who you were meant to be--over the course of years, despite life's inevitable trials and tribulations.
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The Secret of Taste: Why We Like What We Like | The Guardian
f you had asked me, when I was 10, to forecast my life as an adult, I would probably have sketched out something like this: I would be driving a Trans Am, a Corvette, or some other muscle car. My house would boast a mammoth collection of pinball machines.
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