HT Barry Ritholtz.
This video is almost 11 minutes long but is worth watching. What really motivates us.
Lifelong Learning
Read a Book a Week – Update 5/15/10
The Future of E-Readers Is Brighter Than We Knew | The Big Money
The report has much more information, including the stunning number that 49 percent of the respondents—whether they were familiar with e-readers—were planning to buy a tablet device within the next three years. (Holy smokes!)
I recall an exchange between one of my readers who posted a comment on one of my read a book a week posts. He was a fervent admirer of ebooks. I hereby dedicate this post to that anonymous reader.
I am saddened to report I have read just 16 books this year. Working too much and not spending enough free time reading is my excuse.
And no ebook reader…yet.
A Stands for…?
One Volcano, 4 Friends, and Many Career Ideas | paulacaligiuri.com
Opportunities, even those that change your plans in unexpected ways, may be exactly the ones that will help move your career – and your life – in a wonderful direction.
Attitude. And I’ll keep posting about this so that it sinks in and sticks.
Older Brains – The News is Not All Bad
The Aging Brain Is Less Quick, But More Shrewd : NPR
But Small has found that it’s not all bad news. He points to a continued improvement in complex reasoning skills as we enter middle age.
Watch Your Assumptions
Hat Tip to Michael Hyatt at his blog for passing along this video. Watch and listen to the entire clip. Watch your assumptions.
Read a Book a Week – eBook News 1/29/10
Anybody doubting the viability of Ebook readers over the long term needs to take a close look at these numbers. There is a reason why many companies are currently tripping over themselves in an attempt to get into this market.
Personal Financial Security – Skimmers
Would You Have Spotted the Fraud? — Krebs on Security
I realize this is a website/blog on underwriting and most of the time I do stay on point. But this little article about skimmers is just too good not to pass along.
What Matters? A Thought For The Decade
A Life That Matters
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won’t matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end. It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave. What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone. What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident. It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters. It really matters!
Michael Josephson
Read a Book a Week – Change Your Brain Structure
Reading Practice Can Strengthen Brain ‘Highways’ : NPR
Intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure of a child’s brain, according to a study in the journal Neuron. The study found that several different programs improved the integrity of fibers that carry information from one part of the brain to another.
How to Be Happy
How Adults Achieve Happiness – BusinessWeek
Our findings were in many cases unexpected but clear-cut. There is an incredibly high correlation between people’s happiness and meaning at work and at home. In other words, those who experience happiness and meaning at work tend also to experience them outside of work. Those who are miserable on the job are usually miserable at home.
The implication is unmistakable. Since work and home are very different environments, our experience of happiness and meaning in life appears to have more to do with who we are than where we are. Rather than blaming our jobs, our managers, and our customers—or our friends, family members, and communities—for our negative worklife experience, we might be better served by looking in the mirror.
lifeunderwriter.net 
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