Cora Brady

CEO Bob’s Your Uncle - NYU Stern | Initiative on Purpose & Flourishing - Becoming You Practitioner - Coach & Speaker - Careers, Values, Purpose

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Cristina Anne Costa: How to Standardize Incremental Sales Measurement for a Single Source of Truth. https://t.co/q1Pai6bAOv

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“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot ― it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”

― Maya Angelou

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In 2018, Stanford University professor Matt Abrahams gave a powerful masterclass on why most people fail to communicate.

It went viral for a reason.

His frameworks:
• Structure beats intelligence
• Anxiety is your fuel, not your enemy
• Clarity > complexity

15 lessons on communication:

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A must listen for anyone debating career fit

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You can be thriving at work, and still feel misaligned.

On McKinsey Talks Talent, Suzy Welch explores why high performers land in the wrong careers, and how to avoid settling for a “B+ life,” especially in an AI-driven world.

Explore the conversation. https://t.co/8LlqYMs0S3

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Malcolm Gladwell explaining why some people succeed and some don't.

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Mental‑health campaigner Ben West from Frittenden has launched Reasons to Stay - a project where strangers share letters of hope for anyone struggling.

More here: https://t.co/tDPAnIcBnd

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I just discovered this resource and am so thankful it exists. It provides an opportunity for people to write a letter - for someone in need, or receive a letter - when in need of support and love. https://t.co/A62tdn8HXH

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So proud to see my @NYUStern - Initiative on Purpose & Flourishing cohort peer launch this program @UConn
A Research-Based Roadmap to Meaningful Work https://t.co/bpTftD67Zf

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Thrilled to be back at @NYUStern | Initiative on Purpose & Flourishing with @SuzyWelch to support a fabulous new cohort of purpose practitioners starting their certification journey! #BecomingYou

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Is Generation Z Unemployable? by @SuzyWelch https://t.co/x4GQztYhH5

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Why Company Values Are Falling Short (New Data) https://t.co/A4xSainOfI

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@Oldies967fm who can i contact re: advertising rates?

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BREAKING: AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine worldwide, months after admitting that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect - The Telegraph

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@CP24 So to be clear. We’re calling out Toronto Police for rushing to calls? If you’re having a heart attack or your baby is choking would you like them to follow the speed limit?

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LOVE LOVE LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT HER. ❤️ @1capplegate #Emmys2024

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Christina Applegate walks onstage and the audience jumps to its feet. I’m so happy she got this moment of love and appreciation.

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At a show on his Solo Tour, John Mayer confessed:

“I wait for most things to be over. I wait for this to be over to do the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and the next thing...”

To counter this tendency, he implemented a rule.

“Because I’ve realized, he said,

“Everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed: Done. Done. Done. The thing you hate that you have to do tomorrow will be over before you know it, and the thing you're looking forward to tomorrow will be over before you know it.”

“So I have a new rule in my life,” Mayer said, “and the rule is:

Never wish for less time.

Waiting for things to be over is just wishing for less time. Waiting for this to be over to get to the next thing—that's just wishing for less time.”

“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.'

I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out…”

Takeaway 1:

John's realization—that “everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed”—made me think of something that Dr. Anna Lembke writes about in her book Dopamine Nation:

“One of the most remarkable neuroscientific findings in the past century is that the brain processes pleasure and pain in the same place. Further, pleasure and pain work like opposite sides of a balance.”

“And one of the overriding rules governing this balance,” she said, “is that it wants to stay level…With any deviation from neutrality, the brain will work very hard to restore a level balance—what scientists call ‘homeostasis.’ … With any stimulus to one side, there will be a tip of an equal and opposite amount to the other side.”

Pain and pleasure, good days and bad days, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—everything leaves at the same speed.

Takeaway 2:

The brain’s tendency to think about the next thing is called “prospection.”

“Our brains were made for nexting,” the psychologist Daniel Gilbert writes in a chapter titled “Prospection” in his book Stumbling On Happiness.

“When researchers count the items that float along in the average person’s stream of consciousness, they find that about 12 percent of our daily thoughts are about the future.”

In other words, the average person spends 1 out of every 8 hours thinking about the next thing, “which is to say…each of us is a part-time resident of tomorrow.”

We are constantly nexting, Gilbert explains, because of “the illusion of foresight”—the illusion that “prospection can provide pleasure and prevent pain.”

The reality is that “the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.”

The reality is that (whether through the prospectiscope or in the present) everything—pain and pleasure, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—leaves at the same speed.

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“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.' ... I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out...” — John Mayer

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How would you spend your time differently if you kept track of your 1,408 weeks (average lifespan) to live your life? https://t.co/kNSzfFI6rl