Paul J. Silvia (2007). How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing.
Paul Silvia makes a strong case for scheduling in his book “
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Decision Coaching – Ursina Teuscher, PhD
Helping you make big decisions and achieve goals
Own News: Our Article on Maximizers Got Published
I’m happy to announce that another peer-reviewed paper from a collaboration with my Italian colleagues Raffaella Misuraca and Floriana Antonella Carmeci just came out:
Misuraca, R., Teuscher, U., & Carmeci, F. A. (2015) Who are maximizers? Future oriented and highly numerate individuals.
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Featured Video: The Neuroscience of Moral Decisions
How can our brain chemistry affect moral decision making?
The neuroscientist Molly Crocket gives some intriguing answers to this in a talk:
(It’s a video, but you could also just listen to it.
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What Are Your Strengths? Review of Two Self-Assessments
I’m featuring two self-assessments here that focus on clarifying what your strengths are: the Clifton StrengthsFinder®, and the VIA Survey.
The Clifton StrengthsFinder® was developed by the Gallup Organization.
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Book Recommendations: How To Organize Both Space and Time
If you’re up for some serious spring cleaning of not only your home or work space, but also your schedule, Julie Morgenstern has written two books that can help:
1. Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home,
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Decision Styles: Are Some Better Than Others?
I was excited to find a new study about decision styles and how they relate to decision qualities.
We know that people have different ways of approaching decisions – or different decision styles. Several studies have suggested the existence of five distinct styles:
1) Rational
An example item in a questionnaire would be:
“I make decisions in a logical and systematic way.”
2) Intuitive
E.g.,
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Featured Video: How to Make Hard Choices
I would love to hear what other people take away from this TED talk. Is it helpful? I have lost the distance to the topic, so I want to say: “yes, sure, but there’s more! there’s help! there are tools!”
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A Career Development Tool For Academics
Continuing my series about self-assessments, the one I’m reviewing here is for academics:
the myIDP.
The myIDP is an Individual Development Plan for science careers,
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Book Recommendation: The Upside of Irrationality
Dan Ariely (2011). The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic.
Dan Ariely is a great thinker, scientist and story-teller. In this book, he weaves personal anecdotes and research findings together to help us gain insight into our own irrational minds.
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Featured Video: Low-Cost Creative Problem-Solving
If you want to see what innovation can look like on a very tight budget, watch this TED talk by Navi Radjou:
Navi Radjou borrows the Hindi word “jugaad” to talk about frugal innovation: that is,
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Poll Results: Your Most Exciting Compliments
Thanks to all of you who responded to my poll last month and submitted a compliment you received! Here are some of the answers I got – an arbitrary selection of my personal favorites:
“You communicate so proper.”
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Cravings? How To Stay in Charge
The most frequent New Year’s resolution is to lose weight. However, one thing that gets in the way of the best goals and intentions are cravings. Cravings tell us in a very clear voice what we should do, and they have tremendous motivational force.
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Book Recommendation: Willpower
Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney (2012). Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength.
This book is a collaboration of the psychologist and researcher Roy Baumeister with New York Times science writer John Tierney.
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Looking Back: The Past Year’s Most Exciting Compliments
“It is true that you think in different ways than normal people.”
— My husband.
To some (normal?) people, this may not sound like a compliment, but it made me incredibly happy.
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Two Book Recommendations for the Holidays
If you’re ready to cosy up by the fireplace with some good books, I have two suggestions. They are both classics in their fields, though of different times and genres. The first is a novel by one of the great German poets.
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Featured Video: Rob Krar in “Depressions”
Depressions – a few moments from 30 miles in the canyon. from Joel Wolpert on Vimeo.
As one of the world’s top ultrarunners, Rob Krar achieves athletic goals that seem superhuman to most people.
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Self-Assessments: The Myth of Personality Types
Or: Mind the Bell-Curve
First off, here’s a fun article about the Myers Briggs (MBTI) that I wish I had written myself. It speaks from my heart.
But even apart from the Myers Briggs,
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Featured Video: Baumeister on Self-Control
Here’s a great talk by Roy Baumeister about all the cool research he and others have done on self-control:
Self-control seems to be one of only two human traits that can predict success through a broad range of situations.
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Infographic: Increase Your Productivity Without Burning Out
Here is a two-sided infographic. Together, the two pages give you a visual summary of my workbook: “Increasing Productivity in Healthy and Sustainable Ways”.
The first page provides an overview of important neurological and psychological findings.
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tDCS: Brain-Zapping for Creativity and Focus
Fun Stuff Brought To Us By Mad Scientists
A recent study found that participants were performing better than usual in a creative task when they received electric stimulation of the brain.
The method is called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS),
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