The New Inspirer

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Dr. Srikumar Rao visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, “Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life.”

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Lifehack.org ran a nice post on why boredom is actually a good thing. Here’s why:

• Being bored turns your mind inward and encourages reflection.
• Boredom is nearly always essential to creativity.
• Boredom stimulates the search for better ways to things like nothing else does.
• Boredom is an essential step in falling asleep and getting enough rest.

So next time you’re bored realize you’re also open to inspiration >:)

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We came across this excellent “docusoap” that takes Quantum Physics into our everyday lives and makes a pretty convincing case that we create our own reality. Enjoy >:)

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An excellent post by Zenhabits. Have a look >:)

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And then read this research. We came across some interesting research by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert who has made it his life’s work to understand why people make errors predicting what will make them happy and why they do so over and over again. The Washington Post draws up his conclusions thus far:

• Bingeing is bad, except when it isn’t

” Breaking two cookies into quarters and eating one piece on each of eight days is likely to produce no happiness at all. Better to eat two cookies at once, and then wait a week before grabbing another two.”

• Happiness often comes from what you don’t know

“When you don’t understand why a bad thing happened, it is worse. When you don’t understand why a good thing happened, it’s better.”

• Keeping your options open won’t necessarily make you happier

“When you lock yourself in something you cannot get out of, you will find ways to be happier. . . . I do love my wife more than I loved my girlfriend, and they are the same person.”

• The things you fear are not as bad as you think.

“For as long as anyone can remember,” Gilbert once noted, “people have hungered for information about their personal futures, confident that if they knew their fates, they would also know their fortunes. Alas, knowing the future is not the same as knowing how much one will like it when one gets there.”

So, take it from an academic: there’s no reason you shouldn’t be happy >:)

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Entrepreneur Sanne Roemen never makes an invoice. She lets her clients decide what they want to pay her. And how they want to pay her.  Sanne, who consults on how companies can apply web 2.0 principles in their business, knows by experience by now that clients generally pay her three times as much as she would have offered before the job was done. The side-effect of clients paying less than expected therefore isn’t too much of a problem. “I can’t determine for the client what the value of my services is. That’s something which is different for everybody”.  Although Sanne totally trusts on her clients to judge her value added, so far she hasn’t had any negative experiences. Above that, it’s part of the entrepreneurial risk. “When making an offer it’s exiting to see whether or not you’ll get the job. Now it’s exiting to see how much you get once the job is finished”.

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We came across this interesting talk by an Australian fellow who in his 45-minute presentation makes a pretty convincing case that people should do more right-brain thinking in order to be successful in the future. Right-brain thinking allows you to synthesize information to come up with new ideas. New ideas that will be of great value in a world where the left-brain, logical thinking is increasingly being put in a position where it can easily be outsourced or automated.

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An interesting slide show by Karl Fish which examines the changes in the world that are ahead of us. There are numerous interesting presentations by the way (like this one) that can be found at slideshare.net >:)

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