I wrote ‘The Happiness Equation’ & ‘Two-Minute Mornings’ & I host the podcast ‘3 Books’. I send out a list of book recommendations every month 👇🏾1000awesomethings.com/reading-club/Joined April 2009
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Your learning rate is the steepest when you know the least.
Research shows Nobel Prize winners are 22 times more likely than their peers to have a strange, unusual, or weird hobby outside their scientific discipline.
Learn to say no.
Practice saying no.
Be comfortable saying no.
It is my number one productivity tip.
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Social media and cell phones have completely changed our society — and not for the better. When @JonHaidt was on my podcast, he shared how these tools are shifting how both kids and adults communicate. His new book, ‘The Anxious Generation,’ goes even deeper. I’ll share my…
Few ideas for a mental health boost this weekend:
- two-minute mornings
- delete social media apps
- call or see extended family
- go on a hike -- and take the binoculars
- buy a new novel from your local bookstore
- ride your bike somewhere new
What would you add?
Thanks to The Anxious Generation, the new book by @JonHaidt, the damage that phones are doing to our kids — and to us — is back in the news. A few years ago, @CBC invited me to speak to the country on national TV about what I considered 'the biggest problem facing Canadians.'…
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"I am sending the wonderful work Let Grow to my public school board's Director of Education, while also working hard to give my kids longer and longer ranges so they can grow up untethered & antifragile."-- @NeilPasricha, host, 3 Books w/ Neil Pasricha podcast
@NeilPasricha Try a new recipe
Enjoy a long bath with suds
Try an online Pilates or yoga class
Find volunteer opportunities
Grab a pal and go out for coffee or dessert!
Also @NeilPasricha wrote about this in The Happiness Equation years ago & I’ve been using his diagram when I talk to teachers about Math Therapy ever since. The idea is to go from the top (where most kids are now) to the bottom version, where kids can start anywhere in the cycle!
@BStulberg I feel pretty hopeful that people will read more in the future than we do today.
I think we're near the "peak" junk food media wave. People will turn to books for healthier minds and lives
A review in Nature, by @candice_odgers, asserts that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness.” Both of these assertions are untrue.…