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Whenever you feel distressed — try to check if it is a fight-like, flight-like, or freeze-like response.
Don’t Fight, Flight (Or Freeze) Your Body and Emotions
pmigdal.medium.com
Welch used GE Capital to manage earnings. Whenever the company was short revenue or profit or vice versa, Welch could instruct GE Capital to buy or sell assets. The result was GE’s storied ability to always hit its forecasts—and why the stock was so highly valued. It wasn’t that the businesses were managed so well that the numbers were predictable; it was that it had an unregulated bank around to make up the difference whenever it wanted.
How Technology Giants Die
Evan Armstrong
Moral formation, as I will use that stuffy-sounding term here, comprises three things. First, helping people learn to restrain their selfishness. How do we keep our evolutionarily conferred egotism under control? Second, teaching basic social and ethical skills. How do you welcome a neighbor into your community? How do you disagree with someone constructively? And third, helping people find a purpose in life.
How America Got Mean
theatlantic.com
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