A batch of the best highlights from what Fabien's read, .
“Managing is easy, except for the people part!”
Who
Geoff Smart, Randy Street
When measured empirically, people were happier at work and less happy relaxing that they suspected. And as the ESM studies confirmed, the more such flow experiences that occur in a given week, the higher the subject's life satisfaction. Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging
Deep Work
Cal Newport
You always have three options: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you could leave it but not leaving it and not accepting it. That struggle or aversion is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: “accept.” [5]