"Since the pandemic started, I've wanted to stay connected with our community. Through the form of a weekly blog, I share my insights and reflections on various topics."
Do you ever make a decision or judgment that is just way off? I do. The new book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman says that not only does this happen to everyone, but it happens to a much larger degree than we all think it does.
A good friend of mine sent me an article published by Farnam Street over the weekend called How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught. The gist of the article was that we can all become better thinkers. The article noted that “Good decisions create time, bad ones consume it.
I’m sure that by now, all of you have heard the news that Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, bought a baby yacht to keep his big yacht company. The story is that he could not fit a helicopter landing pad on his regular yacht which is longer than a football field so he needed a baby yacht for his helicopter.
Last week, I wrote about the state of languishing where one may have, among other symptoms, difficulty focusing or a general sense of apathy. Earlier this week, my wife forwarded a twitter post that she had received from a friend that said “Am I working at my regular capacity? No. But am I prioritizing and taking care of the most important tasks? No. But am I at least taking care of myself and my mental health? Also no.”
This morning, I was reading a weekly newsletter from Knowledge@Wharton which is the Wharton School’s online business analysis journal. The topic was innovation and change during the pandemic and focused on an annual study on innovation that students at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management & International Studies perform.
As more and more people get vaccinated and the world starts to open up, many have hopes for a return to normal. Normal activities and possibly normal emotions. If you have been having difficulties focusing on tasks or some level of apathy about things that used to excite you, you are not alone.