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The cover of the book The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

Book

The Art of Asking

The cover of the book Silence Your Mind by Dr Ramesh Manocha

Book

Silence Your Mind

Adam Grant presenting his TED talk on the surprising habits of original thinkers

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The surprising habits of original thinkers

Piotr Wozniak, creator of SuperMemo and spaced repetition pioneer

Article

Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn?

A desk, pictured from above, with typewriter and other items for work

Blog Post

4 work lessons from leaving my job

The cover of the DVD of Lost in Translation, the Sofia Coppola-directed film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson

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Lost in Translation

An infographic showing the most spoken languages of the world and the countries in which they're spoken

Infographic

A World of Languages

The cover of the DVD for The Animatrix, a set of short films detailing the back story to The Matrix

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The Animatrix

Murray Gell-Mann presenting his TED talk on the ancestor of language

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The Ancestor of Language

Episode 313 of the Tim Ferriss Podcast with Michael Pollan as a guest

Podcast

Tim Ferriss Podcast #313: Michael Pollan on pyschedelics

The cover of the book Living On Your Own Terms by Osho

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Living on Your Own Terms

A close-up of some marbles, representing the subjectivity of quality

Blog Post

Quality is always subjective

The cover of Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson

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Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

The cover of Poke The Box by Seth Godin

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Poke The Box

The cover of the book How Bad are Bananas? by Mike Berners-Lee

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How bad are bananas?

An interactive page from The Guardian showing all the flights worldwide in a 24-hour period

Website

All the world’s connections

Scrabble pieces spelling out the word 'anxiety'

Blog Post

Accepting anxiety — it helps.

The title for the What I've Learned video on how to improve willpower through heart rate variability

Video

Improve Willpower in 5 Minutes

The cover of the DVD for Her, a Spike Jonze love story set in the not-too-distant future

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Her

The cover of the Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit, a free resource from the Earth Day Network

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Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit