Lawn signs can swing an election, study finds
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/campaign-lawn-signs-little-effect-217166
Day: 28 December 2015
Top 50 Most Popular Content Management Systems 2015
http://dailycodex.com/top-content-management-systems/
Bedtime Reading, Written by a Robot Just for You
“Bestsellers are the books that people who don’t buy books are buying.”
“Delight a critical mass of avid readers. Capture their energy. Let them sell your book.”
“Bestseller tip: People start to read a book because other people are reading it.”
“It’s shared copies that will help create the change you seek in the people around you”
— Seth Godin
http://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/seth-godin-on-the-bestseller-effect/
In Positive Psychology: An Introduction, Martin Seligman writes about the time he was weeding in the garden with his five-year-old daughter.
He yelled at her because she was throwing weeds into the air and generally fooling around. She ran away and then came back.
According to the article, here’s what happened next:
“Daddy, I want to talk to you.”
“Yes, Nikki?”
“Daddy, do you remember before my fifth birthday?
“From the time I was three to the time I was five, I was a whiner. I whined every day. When I turned five, I decided not to whine anymore. That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. And if I can stop whining, you can stop being such a grouch.”
At that moment, Seligman resolved to change.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/positive-2016-heres-how-bruce-kasanoff
Ellen Langer, a Harvard University psychologist who studies mindfulness, described it this way:
“Mindfulness is the process of actively noticing new things. When you do that, it puts you in the present. It makes you more sensitive to context and perspective. It’s the essence of engagement. And it’s energy-begetting, not energy consuming. The mistake most people make is to assume it’s stressful and exhausting—all this thinking. But what’s stressful is all the mindless negative evaluations we make and the worry that we’ll find problems and not be able to solve them.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-mindfulness-turbocharge-your-career-dr-travis-bradberry
“To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one’s self.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/17612119-islam-the-concept-of-religion-and-the-foundation-of-ethics-and-morality
“Politics is a Game of Addition.”
— Peggy Noonan, CBS This Morning, Monday December 28 2015
“…Politics is a game of addition, take the long view, don’t throw anyone out as you try to hit 60. ” — Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal, Friday November 28 2008
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122773612620961005