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The Benefits of Being a Generalist & Learning New Skills

Success

She watched and learned, especially early on when she was an assistant. While she may not have done it on purpose, she says it seems inevitable in retrospect, because she has the characteristics necessary: She’s intensely curious, eager to learn and willing to ask for help. In surfing, I learned valuable lessons about how I learn.

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10 Best Financial Management Tools for Personal and Professional Use

Success

Managing your business and personal finances can be a headache. We’ve put together a list of the best financial management tools for both personal and professional use. Professional money management tools tend to be extremely robust and not always suited to individuals. For this reason, we’ve separated the two categories.

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Design Lessons Learned From The Coworking Revolution

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This article was originally written by Ted Laatz of SUCCESS Space for Work Design Magazine. The coworking industry has revolutionized the concept of workspaces, catering to the needs of remote workers, entrepreneurs and freelancers, and pioneering many advancements that traditional workspaces can learn from.

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Experience the wonder of the new issue of IN magazine

Workplace Insight

We learned recently that our website is one of the many that has been used to train Google’s AI, the very thing that would supplant us. Anyway, never mind that bollocks, here’s the new digital edition of IN, a printed magazine written, illustrated and designed by humans (and one AI). And of course there’s much more.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

Success

My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. Where I wouldn’t have to worry about wearing flattering clothes or reading teen magazines. I learned a lot that Christmas, including that even the toughest, coolest moms feel overwhelmed sometimes.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

Success

To learn about the curious malady known as “decision fatigue,” I was given a very simple assignment: Wear the same outfit and automate as many daily decisions as possible for two weeks, then write about whether it gave me more mental clarity. You can’t always control the flow of the big questions, but you can manage the small ones.

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What You Can Learn About Making Decisions From a Baseball Umpire

Success

For years before becoming a YouTube sensation for an ejection in 2007 in which he crawled on his stomach and launched a rosin bag like a grenade, Wellman, the manager of the El Paso Chihuahuas , has been near the top of those reports with a reminder that his temper can be volcanic, even theatrical. It’s part of the game,” Ceja says.

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