Self-Improvement, Career, Continuous Learning, and Investing
For this week and next week’s post, I am putting together a curated list of articles that I have been reading or have read over the past few months. On a weekly basis, I have typically included about 5 articles that I have read that I believe readers would find interesting at the end of each post. Unfortunately, my reading list has grown significantly over the past few months so I thought that I would create two separate posts from my reading list.This week I have focused on some broad categories which include, Self-Improvement, Career, Continuous Learning, and Investing. I hope that you find a few articles within the two groups below that spark your interest.
Self-Improvement, Career, & Continuous Learning
- How to Read a Book a Week (HBR)
- This Is The Most Inspiring Way To Be Happier And More Motivated (Barking Up The Wrong Tree)
- Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy (The Atlantic)
- On the ‘Stretching’ of Happiness (The Big Picture)
- The Evolution of Anxiety: Why We Worry and What to Do About It (James Clear)
- This Is How To Boost Emotional Resilience (Barking Up The Wrong Tree)
- This Is How To Make Good Habits Stick: 6 Secrets From Research (Barking Up The Wrong Tree)
- Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure (HBR)
- Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously (The Motley Fool)
- The Golden Age of Teaching Yourself Anything (Psychology Today)
- This Is The Best Way To Motivate Yourself To Exercise: 4 Proven Secrets (Barking Up The Wrong Tree)
- Ignoring LinkedIn Is Hurting Your Career (WSJ)
- The Incalculable Value of Finding a Job You Love (NYT)
- Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think (The Atlantic)
- Why Americans Ignore the Role of Luck in Everything (NY Mag)
Investing
- Four Things the Stock Market Has Taught Me (WSJ)
- The emotional and psychological risks of investing (MarketWatch)
- Why We Think We’re Better Investors Than We Are (NYT)
- The Big Mistake Investors Still Make (WSJ)
- What if you sold 10 percent of Apple in 1976 as co-founder Ronald Wayne did? (Washington Post)
- Deconstructing 30 Year Stock Market Returns (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- Eleven Signs You Own the Right Portfolio (Johnathan Clements)
- Proof: Investors Are Their Own Worst Enemy (Forbes)
- 5 Things Investors Can Learn From Brexit Shock (WSJ)
- Given the Brexit brouhaha, how did your investments hold up? (The Washington Post)
- This Bull Market Is Powered by Your Indifference (Bloomberg)
- How Do You Break A Bad Investing Habit? (A Teachable Moment)
- Fundamentals are only half the story (The Reformed Broker)
- Performance vs. Outcomes (The Motley Fool)
- The Downside of Past Performance (A Wealth of Common Sense)