“I start a picture and I finish it.” via Art Quote of the Day https://ift.tt/2Cvp2E7

Here is your weekly FS Brain Food Newsletter — a timeless signal in a world full of noise.

FS

“Better hiring leads to better work environments, less turnover, and more innovation and productivity. When you understand the limitations and pitfalls of the job interview, you improve your chances of hiring the best possible person for your needs.”

— Job Interviews Don’t Work

• While I wrote this thread for Canada, it applies to a lot of other countries. It’s time to build.

The Knowledge Project

Hannah Fry discusses the role of algorithms on the latest episode:

“The people who have the best chance at long-term success are actually the people who’ve got really low negativity thresholds. They’re the people where if something annoys them, they speak up about it really quickly, immediately and address that situation right there and then. But they do it in a way where the problem is dealt with and then actually you go back to normality. So it’s couples where you’re continually repairing and resolving very, very tiny issues in your relationship. Otherwise, you risk bottling things up and then not saying anything.”

Listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, FS, or purchase a transcript.

READ

I love this short lesson from Jim Collin’s Good to Great:

“Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems.”

EXPLORE

1.

“Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.”

— Waiting Game

2.

“We might be more inclined to let the flywheel of ecology get spinning and investigate the potential allowances of regenerative agriculture. More generally, perhaps we would begin to see that part of the solution to our planetary crisis lies not in hustle, but in repose. Not in catching the next trans-Atlantic flight to an important conference or meeting, but in staying home, contentedly. Not in buying a new more efficient car, but in leaving the old one parked. Perhaps there are many solutions that do not even occur to us, because they resemble passivity rather than action, and we are so deeply trained to hustle.”

— The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray

3.

“Mozart here demonstrates the paradox that true freedom by its nature requires constraints; his deviations from “correct” form show the composer utterly emancipated, the master of his medium. The whole piece exemplifies what is so winning about these concertos—the collaboration and contest between the colour and power of the orchestra and the virtuosity and expressiveness of the piano, an effect which Mozart here perfects for the first time. The dialogue between the two forces, the way in which ideas are exchanged, shared—or not shared—and even stolen, is exploited with limitless ingenuity and variety through the canon.”

— Mozart’s infinite riches

WHAT I’M THINKING ABOUT

The biggest generator of long term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them.

If you let excuses or emotion drive behavior, you’re cheating yourself.

Put aside the excuses and start doing what you need to do.

—

WORD OF THE DAY

Breviloquent brə-VIL-ə-kwent Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, mid-19th century

1 (of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words; concise.

Examples of Breviloquent in a sentence “Usually he was breviloquent, but he went into great detail when describing his favorite book.” “If you find it hard to be breviloquent, ask someone to edit your paper before submitting it for a grade.”

Here is your weekly FS Brain Food Newsletter — a timeless signal in a world full of noise.

FS

“Better hiring leads to better work environments, less turnover, and more innovation and productivity. When you understand the limitations and pitfalls of the job interview, you improve your chances of hiring the best possible person for your needs.”

— Job Interviews Don’t Work

• While I wrote this thread for Canada, it applies to a lot of other countries. It’s time to build.

The Knowledge Project

Hannah Fry discusses the role of algorithms on the latest episode:

“The people who have the best chance at long-term success are actually the people who’ve got really low negativity thresholds. They’re the people where if something annoys them, they speak up about it really quickly, immediately and address that situation right there and then. But they do it in a way where the problem is dealt with and then actually you go back to normality. So it’s couples where you’re continually repairing and resolving very, very tiny issues in your relationship. Otherwise, you risk bottling things up and then not saying anything.”

Listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, FS, or purchase a transcript.

READ

I love this short lesson from Jim Collin’s Good to Great:

“Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems.”

EXPLORE

1.

“Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.”

— Waiting Game

2.

“We might be more inclined to let the flywheel of ecology get spinning and investigate the potential allowances of regenerative agriculture. More generally, perhaps we would begin to see that part of the solution to our planetary crisis lies not in hustle, but in repose. Not in catching the next trans-Atlantic flight to an important conference or meeting, but in staying home, contentedly. Not in buying a new more efficient car, but in leaving the old one parked. Perhaps there are many solutions that do not even occur to us, because they resemble passivity rather than action, and we are so deeply trained to hustle.”

— The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray

3.

“Mozart here demonstrates the paradox that true freedom by its nature requires constraints; his deviations from “correct” form show the composer utterly emancipated, the master of his medium. The whole piece exemplifies what is so winning about these concertos—the collaboration and contest between the colour and power of the orchestra and the virtuosity and expressiveness of the piano, an effect which Mozart here perfects for the first time. The dialogue between the two forces, the way in which ideas are exchanged, shared—or not shared—and even stolen, is exploited with limitless ingenuity and variety through the canon.”

— Mozart’s infinite riches

WHAT I’M THINKING ABOUT

The biggest generator of long term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them.

If you let excuses or emotion drive behavior, you’re cheating yourself.

Put aside the excuses and start doing what you need to do.

—

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” via Today’s Quote https://ift.tt/37j8U3I

Undoing the toxic myth of exclusion and scarcity

It’s easy to believe that excluding a group increases the benefits for those that are doing the excluding. That division and barriers somehow benefit the people who divide and hoard.

That’s true when we’re talking about allocating a truly scarce resource. If you’re on a spaceship that’s headed for Mars, the oxygen you’ve got is all you’ve got. (Unless you have a population with the innovation needed to make more).

But in our modern world, a world built on community, connection and the magic that comes from combining ideas, the opposite is true. When people deprive others of education and opportunity, they’re not helping themselves, they’re depriving themselves of the benefits that would come from what others would end up contributing. We don’t benefit from treating others poorly, we pay for it.

More programmers, more healthy parents, more scientists, more leaders, more passionate artists, more breakthrough designers, more caring health care providers–it doesn’t crowd out anything. It creates more opportunity for everyone.

This is one reason that the faux scarcity of famous colleges is so toxic. Because we don’t have to exclude and sort to help people move forward, yet we do.

If you’ve ever heard a clarinet orchestra perform, you can instantly see how this works. Of course, there are no all-clarinet orchestras, because they don’t sound very good.

 

“Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.” — Oscar Wilde “Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.” — William Cobbett

Today’s Inspirational Quote:

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”

— Arthur Ashe

Did you know…

… that today is Source of the Mississippi Day? U.S. Indian agent and explorer Henry Schoolcraft stumbled upon the source of the Mississippi River on this day in 1882. Its 2,552-mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico begins at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.

This day aims to bring awareness to the ways in which sharks are exploited and to bust myths about how dangerous they actually are.

Content marketing ideas:    

• Listicle idea: X Illegal items that are made from sharks
• Infographic idea: X Unusual types of sharks you might not have known about
• Video idea: Here’s why the great white shark is feared
• Podcast idea: Here’s what you should know before you dive among sharks

Brand campaign that worked: 

This video by What If explores a situation where megalodon sharks – thought to be twice the size of T-Rex – never went extinct.