Curated Links: 01/08/2024

The Shortfalls of Willpower

In the 1970s, a group of researchers led by Walter Mischel at Stanford sat preschoolers down with a marshmallow in front of them. The kids were told they could eat the treat now, or, if they waited until the researcher returned a few minutes later, they could have two. It was a test of delayed gratification.

Change Your Environment, Change Your Life

When a room aligns with our intention for it, the environment helps pull us toward a higher version of ourselves. Match your room with its purpose and your inner environment will begin embodying those qualities, as well. For example, an office reflecting its purpose—perhaps focus, clarity, and peace—will increase those qualities in the person inhabiting it.

4 Rules for Identifying Your Life’s Work

It only takes 4 rules to identify your life’s work according to Arthur Brooks. The article Four Rules for Identifying Your Life’s Work is a must read, eye opening article by Arthur Brooks that offers insight on finding your life’s purpose or marshmallow in a simple four rules.

Beyond New Money: What it Means to be an immigrant in the Land of Wealth

Strangers in Paradise is a practical guide for families faced with navigating the stresses and tasks of adapting well to the Land of Wealth.  Whether you were born there or arrived there, you’ll face predictable challenges to parenting, family cohesion, identity and harmony.

The Difference Between ‘Rich’ and ‘Wealthy’

To the frustration of some of his readers, Sullivan came to define wealth not as a dollar figure but in terms of what your savings allow you to do. “The people that I consider wealthy — whether you’re a schoolteacher or a billionaire — are the people who, when they want to do X, they can do it,” he says.