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Short funny video about things that really motivate us

Summary of recent researches into motivation and insights into its determinants: autonomy, mastery, purpose and contribution instead of monetary incentives. All told in a way that even 6 years old would understand.

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Japan: cuisine and food

A glance upon the Japanese cuisine with the traveler’s eyes.

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Is the pursuit of happiness making us miserable?

Recently, I’ve stumbled upon the video of debates with a very intriguing topic “Is the pursuit of happiness making us miserable?” and enjoyed watching it a lot. Hopefully, you will as well: Share

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Cool stuff digest: May 2010

1. Presentation hacks for entrepreneurs (elevator pitch, etc) 2. How to create little planets using Photoshop 3. Glowing stickers for keyboard 4. Awesome speech by Tim Ferriss on how to deal with haters! 5. How to get your dream job for $6 using Google AdWords 6. 11 Presidents’ Favorite Books 7. Free application to track [...]

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The Century of the Self – great documentary

I want to share one of the greatest documentaries I have ever seen with you. It’s called The Century of the Self and it has an unbelievable density of insights into psychology, psychotherapy, social sciences in general, advertising, public relations, propaganda, manipulation, marketing, influence, politics, capitalism, self-expression and in a certain way even the meaning [...]

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Good books

What I recently read: 1. Economics of Happiness by Mark Anielski Quite an interesting book which summarizes ideas of economics of happiness (happynomics), sustainable development, ecological footprint and others. Sometimes it’s a little bit ideological: anti-consumerism, anti-credit, anti-FED, etc. But still there are lots, lots of interesting and familiar ideas. Both on individual level and [...]

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Trip to Japan, impressions and beautiful pictures

Trip to Japan, first impressions and pictures.

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Save time by approaching your RSS subscriptions in a completely new way: 8 principles for effective reading of blogs

Lifehacks to minimize the time and maximize the value of reading blogs or other RSS feeds.

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Zen writing: best free minimalistic word processing software

Zen writing with no distractions. Best free software applications that allow you to “unplug” in order to finish a good text, whatever it is: a blog post, an essay or a book.

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Timeless ideas: how can greatest philosophers teach us to be happier & wiser

Creators of videos below tried to fix it by grasping the essence of the famous philosophers’ ideas, drawing the parallel with their own destinies and projecting them to our daily life.

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