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2022-07-10 07:29:01 Issue #361 | How Steve Jobs Reinvented Himself

In issue 207 of One Daily Nugget, we featured Malcom Gladwell’s The New Yorker portrait of Steve Jobs as a “tweaker.”

Today, Steve Jobs returns to the spotlight, this time via an intimate profile by Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell.

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The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew

Rolling Stone • 32-minute read Open / Comment

2022-07-09 21:31:02 “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” – By Alexandre Dumas

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2022-07-09 07:43:01 Issue #360 | The Perils of Snapchat Dysmorphia

On Wednesday, in issue 357 of One Daily Nugget, we featured Darius Foroux’ case for quitting platforms such as Facebook and Snapchat. In today’s nugget, we focus on a particularly insidious effect of social media, called “body dysmorphic disorder” — or, more colloquially, “Snapchat dysmorphia.”

The rising use of filters in images shared on social media leads people to feel increasingly dissatisfied with their physical appearance. This has affected not only the emotional well-being of social media users, but it has also triggered a rise in needless, and potentially dangerous, cosmetic surgery.

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Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery

The Guardian • 12-minute read Open / Comment

2022-07-08 21:27:02 “Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.” – By Henry A. Kissinger

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2022-06-22 07:35:10 Issue #343 | To Assess Someone’s Personality, You Need Just One Question

If you’d like to assess someone’s personality, you could rely on tests such as the (popular) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or the (scientifically more robust) Revised NEO Personality Inventory. But this may not always be practical. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could test someone’s personality with just a single question?

According to Inc.’s Jessica Stillman, citing research by Dustin Wood, Peter Harms, and Simine Vazire, you can: To find out if someone exhibits a certain personality trait, all you need to do is ask if he or she thinks that other people often exhibit said trait.

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1 Question Is All You Need to Judge Someone's Personality

Inc. • 2-minute read Open / Comment

2022-06-21 22:35:00 “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

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2022-06-21 07:35:11 Issue #342 | To Be Happy, Make Someone Else Happy

Countless books have been written about how to be happy. What if we have it backward and the direct pursuit of happiness for yourself actually backfires? What if the most effective way to achieve happiness is to make someone else happy?

According to research by Milla Titova and Kennon Sheldon, this indeed seems to be the case. As Jill Suttie writes in today’s nugget, published by Greater Good, an online magazine by the Greater Good Science Center at the University of Berkeley, trying to make someone else happy works even if you don’t know the other person, and even if you don’t physically interact with him or her.

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If You Want to Be Happy, Try to Make Someone Else Happy

Greater Good • 3-minute read Open / Comment

2022-06-20 22:35:00 “I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller

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2022-06-20 07:35:09 Issue #341 | Create Work That Gets Criticized

Many of us are afraid of criticism, to the point of shying away from putting our work out there, taking creative risks, and doing things that matter.

As Seth Godin puts it in today’s nugget, “If your work has never been criticized, it’s unlikely you have any work.” Indeed, the only way to avoid criticism is to hide.

And hiding is not the way of the Nuggeteer.

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The paradox of the flawless record

Seth’s Blog • 1-minute read Open / Comment

2022-06-19 22:35:00 “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.” – Julian Barnes

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