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What is 80,000 Hours? What sorts of people should become entrepreneurs? How can you run cheap experiments on yourself? What are some beneficial modes of philosophical thinking? Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.
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Join Dan and Stephanie Burke as they answer your questions about prayer, distractions at Mass, conversation with God, spiritual gluttony and the timeline of spiritual progress. Topics/Questions Covered in the Show: What does "let us bless the Lord" mean the Liturgy of the Hours? What should we do when we are distracted at Mass after receiving Holy Communion? St. Teresa of Avila says prayer is the dialogue of the soul with God or conversation with God. How is this dialogue supposed to happen if both St. Teresa and St. John of the cross discourage people from paying too much attention to inner locutions? What is spiritual gluttony and how does it affect our spiritual life? In what order to the different "nights" take place in the spiritual life? For instance, when does the "night of sense" take place, during the purgative, illuminative or unitive stage? Resources: Spiritualdirection.com - website EWTN Global Catholic Radio Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation EWTN Religious Catalogue - online The Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross 1 Thessalonians 5:23 - USCCB Bible link Questions? Send an e-mail to Questions@myavila.com or call 818-646-7729. Please leave your name, location, and question(s).
Laura Vanderkam, author of Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done, shares tips on how to spend your time so you feel more relaxed and less frazzled. You’ll hear: The actions that differentiate people who feel more relaxed about time from those who feel more frantic Why it’s valuable to plan “mini-adventures” into your week How interacting with friends rather than social media will affect your time perception Website: LauraVanderkam.com Books: Off the Clock; I Know How She Does It 168 Hours What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast Podcast: https://lauravanderkam.com/category/podcast Additional resources: Podcast: Finding Time for What Matters - Episode 19 - http://tomyyounger.me/episode-19-finding-time-for-what-matters-with-laura-vanderkam/ Article:Track your time for 30 days: What you learn may surprise you https://hbr.org/2018/04/track-your-time-for-30-days-what-you-learn-might-surprise-you Download a time tracking worksheet: http://lauravanderkam.com/books/168-hours/manage-your-time/
The Learning Leader Show Episode 238: Neil Pasricha - Why Action Creates Motivation: 1,000 Awesome Things Neil Pasricha is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome series, which has been published in ten countries, spent over five years on bestseller lists, and sold over a million copies. Neil is a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time, and after ten years heading Leadership Development at Walmart he now serves as Director of The Institute for Global Happiness. He has dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to developing leaders, creating global programs inside the world’s largest companies and speaking to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe. "Most think motivation leads to action... No, motivation doesn't cause action... Action creates motivation." Show Notes: Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence: C -- Clarity - Clear, succinct, memorable O -- Optimism -- "Find the good in everything" P -- Patience -- Delaying decision making until the last possible moment The quality can improve if "we let the tension live" Empower others - "Parkinson's Law" - Work rises to the time needed to complete it. "I don't want to fight the customer." -- Thinking about everything from their perspective. Wal-Mart Being a Harvard Business School graduate "Chase the companies that don't come to Harvard to recruit. You'll learn more." -- Why Neil went to Wal-Mart Neil's 30 second pitch to why someone should hire him for a leadership role when he was very young "I had to be artificially confident" His pitch -- 3 quick questions Do you value internal promotions? What's the #1 program you've seen? Would you be interested in topics of developing leaders at Harvard? Get their email address and follow up None of the companies were hiring when he was leaving school... Neil had to "create a job" within companies to get hired Brene Brown - "If you go through life trying to find confirmation you don't belong, you'll find it." 2008 - The world was falling apart, his marriage ended, his best friend committed suicide.. He started the blog, 1,000 Awesome Things Won a webby award for best blog in the world Wrote The Book Of Awesome He moved to NYC... Didn't know anyone, lived alone He was going through pain while starting the awesome things blog. Focused on three things: Make the blog public - hold him accountable Use a countdown - From 1,000 to 1 -- Helped him know it was going to end at some point Finite - There is light at the end of the tunnel "Most think motivation leads to action. Not true. Action creates motivation." The importance of consistency - Neil's idea was not unique, but doing it everyday made him different from most "Try to be receptive of other people's ideas" -- Helps you "notice things" "Your questions are fantastic. I'm not surprised." Working on deadlines -- Neil wrote for a newspaper for four years. Helped with this skill "I believe in consistency" Actionable advice: You have three, 56 hour buckets of your week. They are: 56 Hours - Sleep 56 Hours - Work/Job 56 Hours - What are you spending this time on? You can do whatever you want... The happiness equation - Work/Life balance fulcrum -- Flywheel Taking his side hustle and making it his full time job -- "I should have done it sooner." "If you go through life trying to find confirmation that you don't belong, you'll find it." -- Brene Brown Social Media: Read: The Happiness Equation - Want Nothing + Do Everything = Have Anything Follow Neil on Twitter: @NeilPasricha Connect with me on LinkedIn Join our Facebook Group: The Learning Leader Community To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12
This final class in the series explores Catholic prayer life and devotions. Questions: What are the 4 purposes of prayer? What is Mental Prayer? What is Vocal Prayer? What is the difference between Communal and Private Prayer? What is the Liturgy of the Hours? What is the Communion of Saints? List the different Catholic devotions that were covered in this class. Briefly explain each part of the Lord's Prayer. What is a Sacramental? What is one encouraged to do after this course to continue learning the Catholic Faith? Catechism link to Christian Prayer Catechism link to Christian Prayer Catechism link to Christian Prayer Catechism link to the Lord's Prayer