After some complaints :) , I have changed the newsletter schedule to Saturday morning. I was told that having the whole weekend to read and go through the links is much better idea instead of starting off with this kind of posts on Monday. Thanks for sharing your feedback. Enjoy the ride.
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I recorded the first part of my book as a podcast in Turkish, give me a listen and share your thoughts with me. What would you like to hear from me as a podcast topic? Shoot me a DM here.
🧠1 Enlightening Infographic
This infographic is from this tweet. It is shocking how much debt each country has in proportion to their GDPs.
Japan is surprisingly leading the graph.
Greece is still struggling after the last crisis with 207%.
Italy is also the one who was left behind in the European Union.
🐦4 Tweet Threads:
This week we start off with 20 books every small business CEO must read. Each one of us is aspiring entrepreneurs I believe. If we are true to our authentic self.
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This tweet is a guide for parents who are looking for topics to teach their children. School is not enough to teach important foundations of how to live. We especially need to teach our small ones about death and grief.
I love learning about our cognitive biases. This tweet is a sound sum-up of quality ones.
Fundamental Attribution Error: We judge everyone else on character but blame our shortcomings on the situation.
Example: If Jane is late for work, she’s lazy. If you’re late for work, it’s because of traffic.
Spotlight Effect We think people are paying far more attention to us than they are.
Example: Josh is worried everyone at work will notice he needs new shoes.
7 podcast suggestions to listen to from one and only Dickie Bush.
My fav:
📘 1 Book Summary:
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
The book is by Arnold Bennett, and was originally published in 1910. Although it seems far away, you see the struggles are the same while you are reading the chapters.
I loved this complaint. Everything is explained or at least attempted to be explained. However we did not give much time to understand time. Ever-replenishing but limited quantity of it makes it remarkable. We need to give deep thoughts to it.
“Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time. It is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible; without it, nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.”
The below sentence is the summary of all habit books I have read. And I assure you I have read more than enough. Just begin. There is no magic thing a successful person does. She just begins. So you begin. No matter how you feel.
“Dear sir, you simply begin. There is no magic method of beginning. If a man standing on the edge of a swimming-bath and wanting to jump into the cold water should ask you, "How do I begin to jump?" you would merely reply, "Just jump. Take hold of your nerves, and jump.”
If you do not like something do not do it just because it is accepted by the society’s standard. Find what makes you thick.
“It is a fine thing to be a walking encyclopedia of philosophy, but if you happen to have no liking for philosophy, and to have a like for the natural history of street-cries, much better leave philosophy alone, and take to street-cries.”
Try to minimize the time spent for the past and the future, you can only lose the present. Realize this, and take your wandering mind to this exact moment.
You cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt! You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow, it is kept from you. Which of us is not saying to himself--which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.”
Not just read and read, reflect on what you have just read. Try to take notes. What is the point of reading if you are not going to remember it?
“The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.”
Start simple and do not tire your mental energy. Willpower is limited, start soft.
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
Do not fight with your job. Try to accept you will spend 8 hours of your day to earn money for your survival. You can fight to make it the best, it is ok. However do not look at your life as a prologue and epilogue to work day. Work is a part of who you are.
This general attitude is utterly illogical and unhealthy, since it formally gives the central prominence to a patch of time and a bunch of activities which the man’s one idea is to “get through” and have “done with.” If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can he hope to live fully and completely? He cannot.
📝 2 Articles:
15 assumptions leaders must reconsider.
Customers value the human touch. Are you sure?
People won't pay full price for a digital version of a product and service. Think again.
The same rules should apply to everybody. People are different, rules have to bend.
Money cuts a quicker path to happiness.
On average, wealthy people experience happier and more meaningful lives than their lower-income counterparts. This is probably because money can buy both meaning and happiness, so long as you spend it in the right way — for instance, by purchasing experiences, time with loved ones, or gifts for others.
The more important takeaway is that meaning may be extra important for people without much money. Compared to their wealthier counterparts, poor people suffer high rates of depression and other mental health problems. Incorporating meaning-making into one’s life may be a free way to improve happiness.
📺 1 Video:
This was interesting to learn and so easy to implement. I suggest you follow the Huberman podcast and videos.
📽️ 1 SERIES / FILM or DOCUMENTARY:
I was looking for this film to be available on some platform and finally I got to watch it. The depiction of ongoing search within us and never being satisfied with what we have was gorgeously described in the movie.
Some quotes that I would like to remember:
Everything we feel, we have to put into words. Sometimes, I just want to feel things. (So true)
I feel like a spectator in my own life. Like I'm playing a supporting role in my own life. (Chills, literal chills.)
I wasted so much time worrying about what could go wrong. But what did go wrong, was never the things I worried about. (Read that again)
📜 2 Quotes:
Concentrate all of your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
― Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born scientist and inventor (1847–1922)
Well done is better than well said.
―Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the US (1706–1790)
📱 1 Useful App/Website/Tool
This week’s tool is beyond awesome.
howtoprofessionallysay is your go-to resource to say something hurtful to your colleagues without hurting them. Kudos to the creator.
Examples: