Stryder50
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And a couple more;
Not just for career, but also other activities and social interactions;
A strong network is an invaluable career asset. Here are a few things to remember when getting started.
Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped.
Not just for career, but also other activities and social interactions;
How to Make the Right Connections When You Don’t Already Have an “In”
A strong network is an invaluable career asset. Here are a few things to remember when getting started.
How to Make the Right Connections When You Don’t Already Have an “In”
If you’re new to your field or you’ve changed locations, you may not know the right people to connect you to business opportunities. To grow your network, try these five strategies. 1) Embrace specificity: tell your existing contacts exactly who you want to meet, whether that’s employees at a...
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How to Make the Right Connections When You Don’t Already Have an “In”
If you’re new to your field or you’ve changed locations, you may not know the right people to connect you to business opportunities. To grow your network, try these five strategies. 1) Embrace specificity: tell your existing contacts exactly who you want to meet, whether that’s employees at a...
Against Willpower
Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped.
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Ignoring the idea of willpower will sound absurd to most patients and therapists, but, as a practicing addiction psychiatrist and an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, I’ve become increasingly skeptical about the very concept of willpower, and concerned by the self-help obsession that surrounds it. Countless books and blogs offer ways to “boost self-control,” or even to “meditate your way to more willpower,” but what’s not widely recognized is that new research has shown some of the ideas underlying these messages to be inaccurate.
More fundamentally, the common, monolithic definition of willpower distracts us from finer-grained dimensions of self-control and runs the danger of magnifying harmful myths—like the idea that willpower is finite and exhaustible. To borrow a phrase from the philosopher Ned Block, willpower is a mongrel concept, one that connotes a wide and often inconsistent range of cognitive functions. The closer we look, the more it appears to unravel. It’s time to get rid of it altogether.
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