The Edit: Becoming Through Doing
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Lessons on listening, the personality traits you can change with practice and more in #TheEdit.
- What to do when someone isn’t listening. We’ve all been there. Sometimes it’s obvious, other times, it’s more subtle, such as a phone call where the only response is an absent-minded “uh-huh” – Harvard Business Review
- The personality traits you can change with practice. Personality isn’t based on what we say we’ll do. It’s rooted in what we actually do, which becomes what we think about – Big Think
- After 13 years, this is my final restaurant review. So, what was it all about? The FT’s restaurant writer reveals all – Financial Times
- The sixth sense – proprioception. Meet the sense that keeps you upright, balanced, and blissfully unaware – The Beautiful Truth
- When so much at work has changed, why can’t we shake presenteeism? Presenteeism: a compulsion, often performative, to work long hours and be available around the clock even when unwell or unproductive – BBC Worklife
- Embrace the zero. How the brain perceives absences – Aeon
- Issue 05 of The Beautiful Truth. Before we can create a better future, we must first dare to imagine it – The Beautiful Truth
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Tim Hayward
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