I. Health & Balance
1. Drop the "shoulds". A partial replacement for "have no expectations" guideline in Buddhism.2. "…for those high in neuroticism, higher frequency of fermented food consumption was associated with fewer symptoms of social anxiety" (via psychotherapy).
II. Writing Skills
3. The most freeing, encouraging writing guidelines I've seen: Neil Gaiman's 8 rules of writing. Go well with "Start telling the stories that only you can tell." I even set both links as a weekly calendar reminder.III. Maker Skills, People Skills
4. A new classification of introverts. 4 types (can be mixed). Comes with a self-identification quiz.
6. A mindmap for dealing with procrastination. “Goals are like pets… Feed and nurture them… Take action on your goals every day… If you neglect them they’ll die.”
…And some blog news:
IV. Goodness
7. What it’s like to be profoundly face-blind in NYMag's Science of Us column (via intotheprocess):
I'm always looking for visual hooks. My daughter has a particular thing she does with her mouth. If there’s several people who could be her, I look for the mouth thing. If she's nervous, or she's irritated, one side of her mouth goes up. She's done it since she was a baby. She doesn't like having her photograph taken, so when I look at a group photo, I look for the kid with the smirk and I know it’s my daughter.
…And some blog news:
- There is now email subscription available.
- About page now has an email address listed.
- And most importantly, I have 2 "real" posts drafted already (one of them is actually a how-to, so extensive that it has a table of contents!), they are coming soon.