Shortform Books

Grace Beverley’s 4 Productivity & Self-Care Strategies

Are productivity and self-care mutually exclusive? How can they feed each other and even operate together? According to Grace Beverley, productivity and self-care can work together in supportive cycles. She shares four strategies that will help you be more efficient, thereby freeing up time for self-care. In turn, this energizes you to get more done. She also shows how you can engage in self-care while working. Keep reading to get these valuable strategies that can transform the way you work and live.

The Biological Response to Stress: Trauma and the Body

What is the biological response to stress? How does the body respond to trauma? The biological response to stress can look like either hyperarousal or dissociation, both of which overpower higher-level brain functions like abstract thinking and impulse control. Knowing how your body responds to stress can help you understand and take care of yourself better. Continue reading to learn more about biological responses to stress.

What Makes Something Go Viral? 5 Reasons Ideas Catch On

What makes something go viral? Why do some ideas catch on when others don’t? Economist Robert J. Shiller contends that narratives drive behavior far more than we might realize. He outlines five factors that contribute to the widespread dissemination of economic narratives: memorable visuals, emotional resonance, influential endorsers, holistic explanations, and a human-centric focus. Continue reading to understand these virality factors that apply to narratives of all kinds.

How to Define the Mission and Objectives of a Business

Who defines the mission and objectives of a business? Is making a profit the most important part of business? According to The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker, management is directly responsible for whether the organization’s efforts produce its desired results. Managers do this by articulating an enterprise’s mission and spelling out its objectives. Let’s look at how managers create and carry out a company’s mission.

How Are You Helping Others Grow in Your Community?

How are you helping others grow? Should there be room for advancement in communities? Although you should prioritize relationships over status, Charles Vogl says it’s natural to want to continue growing as a person and advancing within a community. In The Art of Community, he makes a few recommendations that can help community members make healthy progress. Continue reading for his recommendations that apply to both offline and online communities.

Stock Market Speculation & the 2 Types of Psychological Anchors

What causes stock market speculation? How do psychological anchors influence investors? Stock market speculation is influenced by psychological anchors, both quantitative and moral, which ground an investor’s decisions even more than recent news about company performance. Taking a look at how these anchors work gives insight into why certain stocks grow and when. Let’s take a look at how quantitative and moral psychological anchors and how they influence stock investors.

How to Create a Healthy Work Environment With Stability

Does your workplace support a “hustle culture?” Do you know how to create a healthy work environment? In unhealthy work environments, employees and managers work nights and weekends, practically live at the office, and attack their jobs with a frantic intensity. Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson argue that this mindset isn’t necessary for an efficient business. Let’s look at how managers can encourage a work environment that isn’t built on unhealthy practices.

A Failing Immune System and Aging: The Potential Fixes

What’s the link between the immune system and aging? What specifically happens to your body when the immune system begins to fail? Your immune system is a network in your body that protects you from infection. But it’s also a system that becomes less functional as you age, leading to a variety of harmful repercussions. Let’s look at how a decline in your immune system’s functionality causes aging and how to fix it.

Reclaim Your Life: Inspiration From Britney Spears’s Memoir

Do you feel like you have control of your own life? What does it mean to reclaim the narrative? Your life is the only one you’ll ever get, so you must take control of it. Britney Spears realized this after years of suffering from abuse under her conservatorship, and she took the steps to take back her life. Check out why you should reclaim your life, even if it may seem scary.

How to Change by Katy Milkman: Overview and Insights

What are the key points in How to Change by Katy Milkman? What does Milkman say are the keys to lasting behavioral changes? In How to Change, Katy Milkman describes ways of using human nature to our advantage, changing habits by working with our natural tendencies as much as possible. Learning these techniques helps you to create new habits without relying solely on willpower and discipline to make the change. Discover what Milkman has to say about habit formation by reading on.