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Volume 23 No. 30
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July 22, 2016
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Flashes of rage can usually be traced back to one of nine basic causes, including survival-oriented defensive responses and the need to maintain justice and social cohesion, says neuroscientist R. Douglas Fields. Identifying your triggers is an important step toward using anger more consciously and deliberately, Fields explains. "If you can understand this rage response, then you are in a position to control it," he says. ScientificAmerican.com (3/1)
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Women around the globe tend to spend more time on unpaid chores than men do. In the US, for example, women spend more than two hours per day on chores, while their male counterparts devote just 82 minutes to these activities. "It ends up robbing women of their potential," Melinda Gates said. "This is a societal issue that in 2016 shouldn't exist anymore." The Atlantic online (2/23)
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Maintaining trust requires self-reflection and a willingness to make amends for the things you've gotten wrong, writes Marlene Chism. "Don't let a good reputation get tarnished because of unconscious habits, pride or the lack of willingness to keep upgrading your skills," she warns. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership (3/7)
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A number of microlenders are offering business loans when bank financing is not an option. One, called Kiva Zip, offers loans up to $10,000 with 0% interest, but that's not the case for all lenders. "Rates all over the map, from 0% to low double digits," says Tammy Halevy of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity. Money magazine (3/3)
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"Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself." -Dean Koontz
"It's only cows who never change their opinions."
-Hakan Nesser
"Real leaders ... help us overcome the limitations for our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own."
-David Foster Wallace
"There is no such thing as coincidence, only lack of knowledge." -Hakan Nesser
"The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end." -Charles C. Mann
"In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey." -Clint Eastwood
"In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational." -Larry McMurtry
"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security." -John Allen Paulos
"To be certain of anything is the beginning of bigotry." -Abdulrazak Gurnah
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