Weekly Mix #219 - Book Recommendations, Fear, Career Trends & Being Successful

Book Recommendations, Fear, Career Trends & Being Successful

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Happy Monday!

I missed last week after some travel complications led to me being stuck just on the other side of the US border for a stressful 24 hours.

It's said that travel is a good test of relationships, and I've often thought of it as a good opportunity to practice techniques for dealing with stress.

Travel complications are stressful in large part because of the unknown. Waiting for COVID tests, or a flight change, or trying to get through to customer service—you don't know what the outcome will be or when it will happen.

Conflicts with travel partners are always an unknown too. Some things are a big deal to other people, but a small deal for you. Sometimes it's the opposite.

Some of the things that help me when I'm in situations like this:

Repeating a mantra like "focus on what you can control."

Visualizing what I'll think about this in a week, a month, a year.

Thinking about myself from the perspective of a third-party observer: how would I want them to see me act?

Meditating.

Going for a walk.

Finding and focusing on the benefits of the situation: time to read, write, go for a walk, listen to a podcast, spend more time with the people I'm with, etc.

If you have holiday travels planned, I hope they're smooth.

And if they aren't, I hope they're an opportunity to practice something useful!

Graham

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Links

📖 30 Book Recommendations From the World's Most Successful People - Polina Pompliano - The holidays are a great time to both gift and read books. Almost all the books here are ones I've either read or plan to check out.

📖 A Normie's Guide to Becoming a Crypto Person - Sara Harrison - A skeptical guide to the crypto world, which is becoming harder and harder to ignore.

📖 The Strange Brain of the World's Greatest Solo Climber - J.B. Mackinnon - Alex Honnold is well-known as the world's greatest free solo climber—climbing without ropes or supports. This piece examines how his brain reacts to fear, and explores why, with ideas about how we might learn to process fear better ourselves.

📖 18 Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022 - The Jungle Gym - A crowdsourced list of career trends that are here to stay or grow in the next year. Things like no-code, building side businesses, cooperative work and community focus.

📖 How To Be Successful - Sam Altman - I've shared this article before, but it's a classic. 13 ways to be successful in life and work.

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