Systems Awareness: Tackle Huge Issues With an Outward Focus

Systems Awareness: Tackle Huge Issues With an Outward Focus

What is systems awareness? How can it help us solve global problems such as climate change? In his book Focus, Daniel Goleman outlines three main directions you can aim your attention: inward, toward others, and outward. He connects each direction to certain skills. He associates an outward focus with the skill of systems awareness. Keep reading to learn how tackling the biggest problems requires systems awareness and learn some concrete steps we can take to achieve it.

Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm: Book Overview & Takeaways

Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm: Book Overview & Takeaways

How worried should we be about climate change? What are the most sensible approaches to tackle the problem, whatever its size? The World Health Organization considers climate change the single largest health threat to humanity. However, Bjorn Lomborg’s book False Alarm argues that, while climate change poses a significant threat, it is not a cataclysmic one. Continue reading for an overview of the book to understand this perspective on such an important matter.

Why Is It So Hard to Focus? Distractions & Attention Fatigue

Why Is It So Hard to Focus? Distractions & Attention Fatigue

Why is it so hard to focus? What are you missing when you get distracted? How is attention like a muscle? Daniel Goleman believes that you can improve your attention—by strengthening it with training and restoring it when it’s fatigued. First, you must understand what weakens and disrupts your attention in the first place. Continue reading to learn why it’s so hard to focus, especially these days.

How to Write Concisely and Clearly: 4 Lessons From Jeff Bezos

How to Write Concisely and Clearly: 4 Lessons From Jeff Bezos

When is it better to use words of Anglo-Saxon origin rather than words of Latin or Greek origin? How should you use qualifiers? What’s parallel structure? Simplicity is the most important communication principle that Carmine Gallo discusses in The Bezos Blueprint. Simplicity is clarity: If you want your audience to understand and act on your message, keep it simple. Keep reading to learn how to write concisely and clearly so that you get your message across effectively.

Mainstream Media Bias, Exploitation, & Profit (Candace Owens)

Mainstream Media Bias, Exploitation, & Profit (Candace Owens)

Why is distrust of media so high? How and why do mainstream media outlets push political agendas? Candace Owens says that mainstream media are biased and hypocritical and that they cruelly exploit tragedies to assert their political views. Profit, she says, is at least one of the reasons behind this malpractice. Continue reading to learn about mainstream media bias, exploitation, and profit.

Bjorn Lomborg’s Climate Change Methods & Measures

Bjorn Lomborg’s Climate Change Methods & Measures

What’s the best way to measure climate change and its impact? What does temperature have to do with wealth? According to progressive media and politicians, climate change constitutes an existential threat to humanity, requiring drastic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions to avoid catastrophe. According to Bjorn Lomborg, climate change poses a significant threat, but it’s not cataclysmic. Keep reading to understand the methods and measures Lomborg uses in his analysis.

How to Get Your Focus Back: Advice From Daniel Goleman

How to Get Your Focus Back: Advice From Daniel Goleman

Are you often distracted? Do you ever suffer from attention fatigue? Just as your body needs time to rest and recover from strenuous physical exertion, your attention needs restoration after it becomes fatigued. In Focus, Daniel Goleman provides advice on how to get your focus back. Keep reading to learn how Goleman’s recommendations can help you get back on track.

What Is the Main Point? Communicating Your Big Idea

What Is the Main Point? Communicating Your Big Idea

When you communicate, are you clear on what your big idea is? Does your audience have clarity? What is the main point of what you’re saying? If you’re not sure, you might appreciate learning how Amazon communicates. In The Bezos Blueprint, Carmine Gallo helps you identify your main point and then communicate it effectively using the structure of a press release. Continue reading to learn how to get your main point across.

Why Are Black People Poor? A New Form of Enslavement

Why Are Black People Poor? A New Form of Enslavement

Why are Black people poor? Is there a way out of generational poverty? Candace Owens believes that Black Americans are stuck in generational poverty because of the breakdown of families. This breakdown, she says, comes from Democratic policies. That’s why it’s time for Blacks to leave the “Democratic plantation” and embrace true independence and prosperity. Continue reading to understand what Owens means—and what she hopes will change.