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FAZ Podcast - Immobilienkauf in Corona-Zeiten
Immobilienkauf in Corona-Zeiten? Volker Looman: "Am besten sofort"
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Tim Pychyl on Being a Procrastinator
12/30/2019 https://art19.com/shows/the-one-you-feed/episodes/001c6205-e22e-4c37-a14c-cfc35d98a8ff
Re-Release: Tim Pychyl on Being a Procrastinator The One You Feed
Are you ready to make some changes in your life in 2020?
Tim Pychyl is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Carlton University and hosts a podcast called I Procrastinate. We discuss how to go from being a procrastinator to someone who gets things done. His book that we discuss in this episode is on that very topic – it’s called Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change
In This Interview, Tim Pychyl and I Discuss Being a Procrastinator and…
His book, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change How it’s in the getting on in life that makes a life Being a procrastinator can be an existential matter What he tells his children: I didn’t ask what you want to do or how you feel, I told you it’s time to make your bed. When we are procrastinators we delay getting on with our lives Being an active member or your own life The two ways being a procrastinator compromises our health Stress Fewer wellness behaviors Treatment delay “I’ll look after that later” Being a Procrastinator is a problem of self-regulated behavior I won’t give in to feel good Goal Intentions and Implementation intentions When….then… Giving the monkey something to do What’s the next action? Keeping it small Hacks to work around our irrational thinking Motivation and then Action or Action and then Motivation The meaning behind our goals Meaning and Manageability Asking what will this cost me if I put it off? Being a Procrastinator Prefer tomorrow over today Thinking “I’ll feel like doing it tomorrow” Affect forecasting Thinking of your future self as a stranger Developing empathy for future self Self-handicap to preserve self-esteem -
DLF - Gefährliche Textbausteine aus Karlsruhe
Nach einem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts ist der Ankauf von Staatsanleihen durch die EZB zum Teil nicht verfassungskonform. Das Urteil sei eine richterliche Machtdemonstration, die die Gestalt Europas weit über die gegenwärtige Krise hinaus prägen werde, meint Stephan Detjen.
Von Stephan Detjen
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New Books in Economics - Alberto Cairo, “How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information” (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous―and easier to share than ever. We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are both appealing and persuasive. Pie charts, maps, bar and line graphs, and scatter plots (to name a few) can better inform us, revealing patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. In short, good charts make us smarter―if we know how to read them.
However, they can also lead us astray. Charts lie in a variety of ways―displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns, and concealing uncertainty―or are frequently misunderstood, such as the confusing cone of uncertainty maps shown on TV every hurricane season. To make matters worse, many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even our employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate them to promote their own agendas.
In How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information (W. W. Norton, 2019), data visualization expert Alberto Cairo teaches us to not only spot the lies in deceptive visuals, but also to take advantage of good ones to understand complex stories. Public conversations are increasingly propelled by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How Charts Lie demystifies an essential new literacy, one that will make us better equipped to navigate our data-driven world.
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Armchair Expert - Emilia Clarke
Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Me Before You, Terminator Genisys) is an English actress. She sits down with the Armchair Expert to talk about her Hogwarts-esque boarding school, learning Dothraki and her experience having two brain hemorrhages. Dax describes his love of male physiques and Emilia appreciates a Boston accent. The two discuss round features, struggling with imposter syndrome and Emilia weighs in on the difference between British and American sexual escalation.
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MFDB050 Leuchten
Alle Probanden beschreiben den gleichen Verlauf: es beginnt mit einem Leuchten, dann sprechen Götter zu dir, was sie sagen kann beängstigend banal sein oder geradezu paradox, etwa dass es sie nicht gibt. Oder dass “God in the fucking” ist, wie T.C.Boyle es eine seiner Figuren sagen lässt in seinem großartigen, wie wir finden, in jedem Falle höchst besprechenswerten Roman über LSD und die Tücken der menschlichen Gruppenbildung. Als wäre das nicht verwunderlich genug, haben wir unabgesprochen beide das gleiche zweite Buch gelesen, Annie Ernaux’ fiktionalbiografische Meditation über den Vater, weshalb das Nichtgelesene das dritte Buch ist, Ian McEwan hat über künstliche Intelligenz geschrieben. Das war ein großer Spaß, magisch und profan zugleich.
1.) T.C. Boyle – Das Licht 2.) Annie Ernaux – Der Platz 3.) Ian McEwan – Maschinen wie ich
https://www.kuechenstud.io/mein-freund-der-baum/mfdb050-leuchten/
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DLF: Proteste in Hongkong - „China hat den Widerstand unterschätzt“
Kurz vor dem 70. Jahrestag der Staatsgründung Chinas sei die Regierung in Peking in einer schwierigen Lage, sagte der Politologe Heribert Dieter im Dlf. Die Proteste in Hongkong kämen gerade „sehr ungelegen“. Er glaubt aber nicht, dass China seine Truppen in Bewegung setzt. Es stehe zu viel auf dem Spiel.
Heribert Dieter im Gespräch mit Manfred Götzke
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DLF Kontrovers: Weiter so mit Niedrigzinsen - Macht die EZB die Deutschen arm?
Sparer fühlen sich betrogen. Die Europäische Zentralbank will an ihrer umstrittenen Niedrigzins-Politik festhalten. Gefährdet sie damit den Wohlstand in Deutschland? Oder sind solche Vorwürfe unberechtigt?
Moderation: Martin Zagatta
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The Face Everything Technique: Why Avoiding Difficulties Doesn’t Work
We are, all of us, amazing at avoiding things.
Our minds are less “thinking machines” than they are “avoiding machines.” And the incredible thing is that we aren’t even usually aware that we’re avoiding thinking about something.
I’ll give you a few examples:
Right now you’re reading this article but probably avoiding the difficult thing you don’t want to think about. We are constantly checking messages, news, feeds, notifications … to avoid doing something we don’t want to face. When we’re facing difficulties in life, we try to tell ourselves that’s it’s OK because (fill in the blank), or get busy with some activity or numbing agent (like alcohol) so we don’t have to face the difficulties. When a problem comes up, our reaction is to want to go do something else, put it off. We put off paying bills, doing taxes, dealing with long emails, dealing with clutter, because we don’t want to face these difficulties. We put off exercise because it’s uncomfortable.In fact, there are thousands more examples, every day, that come up and that we don’t even notice, because our minds switch to thinking about something else.
Try this right now: pause for a minute and think about what difficulty you’re avoiding thinking about right now.
You will either notice a difficulty you don’t like, or your mind will quickly turn to doing something else before the minute is up.
What you’ve done is part of what I call the Face Everything Technique … which I’ll explain in a minute, after we talk about why avoiding everything is an ineffective strategy. Avoidance Doesn’t Work
Our minds want to run from whatever discomfort, pain, difficulty we’re facing … and this is a good strategy for temporarily not having to deal with difficulty and pain. So in the present moment, we might feel some temporary relief.
But what it does is relegate us to a life of running. A life of distraction and never facing what ails us. We keep ourselves busy, but never learn to deal with what’s inside us, what’s in front of us.
This means we are at the mercy of our fears, of our discomforts. We are like little children who don’t want to do any hard work, but want the latest shiny fun thing.
This results in not working on the important work (or at least putting it off until it starts to get painful). The same is true of exercise, healthy eating, finances, clutter, relationships, and more.
In the end, we usually have to deal with these things, but they’ve just gotten worse. It would have been better to face them early on, when they weren’t such a big deal. The Face Everything Technique
This technique is based on the idea that it’s better to be aware of things, and to deal with them like an adult, instead of running.
And if we do, none of it’s that big of a deal.
Here’s how it works:
Create awareness by asking, “What am I doing right now?”Throughout the day, set reminders or put little notes that remind you to ask, “What am I doing right now?” The answer might be, “Checking Facebook,” or “Switching to a new browser tab,” or “Eating some chips.” Something simple and mundane like that, but just ask yourself what you’re doing, to start to bring awareness. Next, ask yourself, “What am I avoiding?” When things get difficult or uncomfortable, we automatically switch to something else. We run. We avoid, like crazy. You’re doing it all day long, but not realizing it. Ask what you’re avoiding: some fear, some difficult task, some difficult emotion, some discomfort, or just staying present in the current moment? Name what you’re avoiding. Now face it. Just stay with this fear, discomfort, difficulty, in the present moment. Not your story about it that you’re telling yourself in your head, but the actual physical feeling in your body in the present moment. How bad is it? You’ll find that it’s No Big Deal. Stay with it for a little longer. And a little longer after that — challenge yourself. Take appropriate action. Now that you’ve faced it and have seen that it’s not such a big deal, you can act like an adult rather than a little child: you can decide what the best action is right now. If you’re afraid of doing some task, but you’ve faced it and seen that the fear is not such a big deal … you can remind yourself that the task will benefit you and others, and is much more important than your little fear. If you’re avoiding a difficult conversation with someone because you’re angry, you can see that the anger and offense is not such a big deal, and you can talk to the person calmly and appropriately, with empathy and compassion, and figure out a solution.Of course, not all problems will just evaporate using this method, but I can tell you that you’ll be able to face many more things as you practice this method. You’ll get better at dealing with discomfort, instead of running from it as most people do. You’ll get better at not procrastinating, and doing uncomfortable tasks. You’ll be more present and more willing to stay in the moment rather than needing distractions all the time. Not overnight, but with practice.
You might have the urge to dismiss this article, to avoid practicing this technique. That too is avoidance, and I urge you to face it this moment.
http://www.zenhabitsradio.com/the-face-everything-technique-why-avoiding-difficulties-doesnt-work/
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