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Your Brain On the Internet

by Stephen Mills June 20, 2010

Deep and reflective thinking seems to be disappearing and I think it is in large degree a result of changes brought about by Internet. If it is still there it is being overwhelmed by the shallows. Writers no longer write what they think, they write what they hope will rank in Google. Despite all the touted diversity of the Internet, obsession with Search Engine Optimization often takes priority over content. Google is funneling us into the narrow and boring land of the common.

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Would You Rather Be Right or Be At Peace?

by Stephen Mills June 1, 2010

Do you prefer stress or happiness? That may sound like a no-brainer, so let me ask it another way. Do you prefer being right or being at peace? So many of us are determined to be right, and we defend our positions with the skill of a lawyer and the stubbornness of a mule. If you’re good at this you may get to continue to be right for years and everyone will know it, but the cost is your peace of mind.

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Books You Might Want to Read

by Stephen Mills May 23, 2010

I cannot say enough good about Columbine by Dave Cullen. Simply an outstanding book and an engrossing read. Highly recommended! Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence–and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process is a heartwarming and ultimately sad story of the famous African Grey [...]

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Master Your Workday Now by Michael Linenberger

by Stephen Mills May 11, 2010

Master Your Workday Now!: Proven Strategies to Control Chaos, Create Outcomes, & Connect Your Work to Who You Really Are is a really good book. I rate it five stars. Check out Steve Pavlina’s review on Amazon; he gives it a huge thumbs up. Pavlina spends most of his review describing Part I of the book, but Parts II and III are also really well done. Amazon is currently offering a 48% discount.

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Change Made Simple – Direct the Rider

by Stephen Mills March 4, 2010

In this article we discuss the first of the three main components of the process – Direct the Rider. Directing the rider is all about providing clarity to yourself or others. It’s about solving specific problems and taking specific actions instead of trying to boil the whole ocean.

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Change Made Simple – Overview

by Stephen Mills March 2, 2010

Switch is an excellent book with very practical advice that is made as easy to follow as you can imagine for such a broad and complex topic. I really loved this book. I bought the book at a Barnes and Noble. When I was checking out, the sales clerk said “The whole world needs to read this book”.

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Doing Great Work

by Stephen Mills February 27, 2010

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” — Steve Jobs

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Some More Books You Might Enjoy

by Stephen Mills February 6, 2010

Please check out my Some Books You Might Enjoy article from October as well. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives This is a really interesting book. Everyone has probably heard of the six degrees of separation theory. It’s basically that everyone is connected to everyone else by [...]

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Linchpin – A Review

by Stephen Mills January 28, 2010

“My goal is to persuade you that there is an opportunity available to you, a chance to significantly change your life for the better. Not by doing something that is easy or that you’ve been trained to do, but by understanding how the rules of our world have fundamentally changed and by taking advantage of this moment to become something the world believes is indispensable.”

–Seth Godin, from the Introduction

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The Science of Fear – Part I

by Stephen Mills January 10, 2010

Fear is an important emotion that had extremely important survival value in the world in which our brains developed. Much of that value is now being misdirected. The emotional makeup of fear is now a big part of what leads to our miscalculation of risk. Further, those with economic or political value to be gained, use the emotion of fear to influence us. It’s easy to motivate people by scaring them. So to truly understand and react to risk in a reasonable manner, we must approach it in a cold and calculating way.

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