Tools for Change – October 2023
Dr. Chris Stout
LinkedIn Top Voice | Best Selling Author | Adventurer | Startup Whisperer | (Accidental) Humanitarian | APA's "Rockstar" Psychologist | Éminence Grise
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Welcome to the latest edition the monthly newsletter, Tools for Change – A Convenient Digest and Curated Collection of Information, Tools and Resources to Help You in Your Life and Work.
New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast, Tina Davidson on Composing a Life in Full (Measure) on Living a Life in Full.
Composer Tina Davidson explores in her memoir Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer, described as “a lyrical reckoning with what it takes to compose a life of cohesion and beauty, out of shattered bits and broken stories.”
In Let Your Heart Be Broken, Tina juxtaposes memories, journal entries, and insight into the life of an artist—and a mother—at work. Along the way, she meets Ernest Hemingway and Carl Sandburg, survives an attack by nomads in Turkey, and learns her birth father is a world-famous scientist. And throughout, there is the thread of music, an ebb and a crescendo of a journey, out of the past, and into the present, through darkness and into the light.
Tina is a writer and classical composer, now for 45 years, whose works have been performed by ensembles and orchestras across the country, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cassatt Quartet, as well as recordings with Albany Music and on Deutsche Grammophon, performed by Grammy winning violinist, Hilary Hahn - all while being a single parent. Her life is filled with experiences that are as amazing as they are touching, heart-wrenching as they are instructive, as she shares her dealing with depression and dissociation, and her work to reclaim herself through therapy and spiritual practice.
Let your heart be broken has also been described as a “lyrical reckoning with what it takes to compose a life of cohesion and beauty out of shattered bits and broken stories” and we discussed her writing process as well, along with forgiveness, grieving and spiritual connection.
Tina has written that “we are, in the end, a measure of the love we leave behind.” I cannot think of any better way to live a life in full.
Be sure to tune in on your favorite platform, or if you’re not into podcasts, read all about it on my LinkedIn Top Voice post.
Well Said
“Death in life… that’s the only death. That’s the real death. Not this death when you depart the body, but being dead when you’re alive. That’s real death, I think.” - Henry Miller & Anais Nin
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”- Søren Kierkegaard
"Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it." - Stephen Colbert
"'Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky' is even better advice than it appears on the surface. Luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc." - Sam Altman
Tools for Productivity
Here are some tips to help mornings feel more tolerable — and even productive.
Turn articles into short audio summaries - Recast is a smartphone app that converts any online article into a brief podcast-style audio summary with high quality AI voices. The free version lets you listen to a large selection of pre-processed articles.
Goals Toolkit: How to Set & Achieve Your Goals.
Tools for Living Your Life in Full
Use the Semester Trick to Achieve Your Biggest, Scariest Goals (Even If You're Long Out of School).
The Path to Lifelong Happiness Comes Down to 7 Simple Choices.
Personality Evolution: Exploring the Milestones That Change Us.
A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About - by Morgan Housel.
How To Be Successful- Sam Altman.
Tools for Being Smarter
How to Read: Lots of Inputs and a Strong Filter Years ago Charlie Munger said, “Most books I don’t read past the first chapter. I’m not burdened by bad books.”
Intelligent vs. Smart - Here’s an important distinction to make in life.
Why Systems Thinking Is Strategy.
Smarter googling. Google has taken its first steps toward integrating its generative AI into your search. Google SGE is now available as a default option in your browser. When you google something the AI sorts the answers into a readable summary, which allows you to respond and ask further questions in a conversational mode.
Master of Change - Keeping your head, even when it's rightfully spinning.
Spies, Lies and Nukes - November 10-12, 2023. For this third, enhanced running of Spies, Lies & Nukes join Valerie Plame (upcoming guest on Living a Life in Full, and listeners/readers can receive $50 discount using the promo code LIFEINFULL) and some of her legendary, highly decorated, and experienced CIA colleagues as they pull back the curtain on the real life “wilderness of mirrors” that is international espionage. Hear from and engage with the best of CIA’s spies to better understand today’s world, from emergent threats, to never-before-told spy operations, black market nuclear scams, how to recruit a spy, the growth of domestic terrorism, how social media is used in espionage, and keeping your employees and your company safe from foreign spies.
Tools for Wealth Management
I “retired” in 2020 in a panic–my department had been eliminated and Covid hit—what made the difference for me was finding Empower. As true fiduciaries, I consolidated all of my investments to Empower. They calculated I could retire early, afford to pay for our daughter’s wedding, donate to nonprofits, and cover our living costs. In addition, they also audit our taxes to be sure our CPA has done everything that needed to be done and in a proper manner. If this may be of help to you, you can get a free account and if you decide to sign up for a paid account bravo/brava, and we’ll both get six months of free portfolio management. Their fees are 100% transparent, I never got that from any other advisor. Click here for your free account and see what I mean.
Tools for Your Career
Do you struggle to disconnect from work, even when you love your job? Learn how to draw boundaries that support your needs. Start by acknowledging your worth, then communicate expectations clearly. Identify personal non-negotiables and watch for burnout.
These are 4 of the most common work mistakes. Here’s how to use them to your advantage.
Brag Better By Promoting Your Peers - Be sure to emphasize the contributions of your peers. You’ll be viewed as both more capable and more likable.
12 effective strategies for messaging recruiters on LinkedIn that will get noticed.
Tools for Investing
“If you're right 55% of the time, you are one of the best investors in the world. But when you're wrong, they're right. How you deal with that is important because a lot of people just put their head in the sand and wait for the world to pass them by. In reality, those moments count the most.” - Lee Ainslie
10-K Navigation Guide - A Primer on Reading Annual Reports.
Cold Call Podcast: As Social Networks Get More Competitive, Which Ones Will Survive?
The Power of Investment Journals.
Tools Just for Fun
A retired man has been driving around with his pet steer, Howdy Doody.
Timothee Chalamet replaced by Elmo in Dune.
Tools for Leadership
The likability dilemma for women leaders.
Terrible Job Interview Questions That You Probably Asked.
From Tennis Pro to Chief Product Officer: Why Female Athletes Make Great Business Leaders.
Tools for Founders
5 Signs You're Hiring People With Growth Mindsets - Successful founders build teams that are always learning and growing.
Tools for Relationships
Do you crave more intimacy with your partner amid busy lives? Carve out time for a simple yet powerful exercise called the couple's check-in.
10 things you didn't know about orgasm. (This talk is aimed at adults. Viewer discretion advised.)
As per above, Origin Stories Podcast: Motherhood.
Mastering the art of arguing productively - Only once we understand the other side of any issue can we be confident that we fully understand our own.
To Be Happy, Marriage Matters More Than Career - Those in happy marriages enjoy the highest life satisfaction.
Make Friends With Another Couple. Your Relationship May Depend on It - You find your partner more attractive when you see others enjoying their company.
Feeling distant from your partner? How to reconnect through everyday moments.
Tools for Health and Wellness
Short Naps Improve Memory, Increase Productivity, Reduce Stress and Promote Heart Health - The title says it all.
Plant-Based Diets: Answering the Protein Question.
Are Plant-Based Diets Better Than Animal-Based?
Vegan Diet Tied to Healthier Blood LDL-C.
Quality Is Key for Plant-Based Diets.
High-Risk CVD Improved With Vegetarian Diets.
The Problem Isn't a Lack of Time. It's a Lack of Energy.
Experience Deep Relaxation with NSDR.
Sleep is your superpower.
Tools for Fitness and Performance
How an ultrarunner learned to work through agony.
Tools for Digital Health Pi, Woebot, and Personal.ai: Meet ChatGPT’s new AI rivals.
Recommended by LinkedIn
Revolutionizing healthcare: the AI self-diagnosis app that’s taking Qatar by storm.
Healthcare leaders reveal concerns about generative AI, ransomware.
Tools for AI
Does AI actually understand us?
Google's CEO Just Explained the Biggest Downside of A.I., and It's a Warning for All of Us. - Be sure to consider the unintended consequences.
OpenAI Releases ChatGPT for Enterprises. Here's What It Could Do for Your Business.
Considering an AI tool? Ask these questions.
Can LLMs learn from a single example?
Google Bard takes a big step toward personalized AI.
Tools for Data Analytics
Without small data, AI in Health care contributes to disparities.
Tools for Your Practice
U.S. Announces first drugs picked for Medicare price negotiations.
How to start and grow a successful private practice.
How to Afford Your Private Practice.
Tools from TED
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Are we in control of our own decisions?
How language shapes the way we think.
What it's really like to have autism.
Pussy Riot's powerful message to Vladimir Putin.
Tools for Technology & Healthcare Trends
America's Fastest-Growing Company Is Tackling the Greatest Challenge in Health Care - Brad Smith and Bill Frist created CareBridge to solve not one problem but two.
Tools for Inclusion
A liberating vision of identity that transcends labels.
Tools for Getting Published
Join my Master Class in Getting Published – All 8 Courses are Free for a Limited Time
Tools for Public Health
Why We Didn’t Get a Malaria Vaccine Sooner.
Tools for Global Work and Policy
Tools for Finding Conferences
Tools for Healthcare Career Insights
Curated from Medpage Today.
Tools for a New Gig
Here’s Behavioral Health Tech’s jobs board to see all of the current opportunities from the leading companies in behavioral health. If you are looking for a new job and want BHT’s community of hiring companies to seek you out, then join their talent collective as a candidate for free here. Or, if you want access to the central place for job candidates of all levels and roles focused on mental health and substance use tech, then enroll as a hiring company here.
See who’s hiring in health and fitness here.
New Scientist Jobs USA is the best way to take the next step in your career in the life sciences, biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and more.
From 80,000 Hours - There are a variety of ways to contribute to global priorities research, including academic research, working as a grantmaker, and doing charity evaluation.
To browse or search hundreds of recent job postings, visit the jobs board in PND, it includes foundation, public charity, education, and nonprofit jobs.
Positions from BioSpace
DiversityMD is a Career Job Board and Information Resource for Physicians regardless of age, race, gender, religion, education, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or physical characteristics. They are a “niche” website for Physicians of all levels of practice from Medical Students, Residents, Fellows on up to Medical Directors and CMO’s.
Tools to Travel the World
Google Search’s new features include a flight price guarantee badge on what Google thinks is the lowest price. If you book with Google and the price drops, you’ll be refunded the difference.
A Gym Membership for Your Brain
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Tools for Humanitarian Intervention
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Tools for Connecting
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Tools for Better Understanding Science
“How Podcaster Andrew Huberman Got America to Care About Science” by Jamie Ducharme for TIME.
As I have opined in past articles like How to Protect Yourself from Fad Science and my three part series, The Reproducibility Problem—Can Science be Trusted? , —Shame on us?, and —What’s a Scientist to do? This is a near-and-dear topic and concern of mine.
And my four-parter: Strong Opinions Loosely Held: Science, Psychology, Misinformation, Vaccines, and Prosocial Ways to Respond.
In Closing
And even though I know our readers are very smart, I nevertheless have to say that this newsletter does not provide medical, psychological, legal, financial, healthcare, or any other form of advice. As I have said elsewhere, don’t be a knucklehead.
Big thank you to meta-sourcing sites and folks: BioSpace, Ron Friedman, PhD, Inc., Farnum Street’s Brain Food, McKinsey & Co., Medpage, MedScape, Joe Koster from Value Investing World, FirstRound, Get Rich Slowly, Ramit Sethi, Forbes InnovationRx, The Knowledge Project - organized by theme, 80,000 Hours, The Collaborative Fund, Colossus, Sonny Patel, Unmistakable Media, Top Tier, NeuroFlow, Five-Bullet Friday, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, Health Data Management Group, Fitt, PodcastNotes, SparkType, Budgets Are Sexy, Behavioral Health Tech, Next Big Idea Club – Heleo, Section 4, Future of Health & Medicine Newsletter, Forbes, Wired, Noah Kagen/AppSumo, Fast Co., AI and Health, The Hustle, Tim Ferriss, Sparktype, TED, Good Life Project, AI Healthcare News, New York Times, Recomendo, and Morning Brew - be sure to check them out. And as always, I have no financial, marketing or affiliate relationship with any of the sources noted herein. (Please email me if links do not show and I'll send to you.)
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Chris
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