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Feb 14

Mashable – The Complete Guide to LinkedIn Etiquette

LinkedIn has developed a killer resource of 225 million users, one you absolutely should take advantage of when it comes to your career. But you’ll have to navigate LinkedIn’s potentially tricky tools and settings while you’re at it. Not to mention take care to maintain proper etiquette at all times. That’s a lot of pressure.

Chances are, if you do use LinkedIn, you’re approaching the network from a job seeker’s perspective — if not now, then in the future. Or maybe you’re a recruiter or a PR representative looking to network and pitch via LinkedIn.

See also: 10 Simple Google Calendar Tips and Tricks to Boost Your Productivity

No matter your background, let’s dissect some of the biggest etiquette dos and don’ts when logging into LinkedIn, the web’s largest professional network.

More of the Mashable post by Stephanie Buck

Get Better / Play Hard — Comments Off on Study: People Who Exercise Have Larger Brains Later in Life – Lindsay Abrams – The Atlantic
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Nov 12

Study: People Who Exercise Have Larger Brains Later in Life – Lindsay Abrams – The Atlantic

PROBLEM: The brain is a muscle, says every teacher ever. Their point is figurative, but the brain is like a muscle in the sense that it normally loses size with age — in some parts by as much as 25 percent.

METHODOLOGY: A long time ago, Scotland surveyed the intelligence of every Scottish child that had been born in 1936. More recently, 691 of those former children celebrated their 70th birthdays by filling out a survey about their social and intellectual pursuits and their levels of physical activity. Three years after that, they celebrated their 73rd birthdays by undergoing brain MRI scans at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The researchers assessed the brain images for physical signs of cognitive decline.

Study: People Who Exercise Have Larger Brains Later in Life – Lindsay Abrams – The Atlantic

Get Better — Comments Off on Entrepreneur.com – How to Train Your Creative Mind
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Aug 12

Entrepreneur.com – How to Train Your Creative Mind

As Louis Pasteur once famously said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind.” To be an innovative entrepreneur, you want to foster creativity in your daily life so that your mind is ready when opportunity arises.

“Creative ideas often come from unusual combinations,” explains Steven Smith, professor of cognitive psychology at Texas A&M University. “The best solution is not going to be the thing everyone thinks of. It’s going to be something unusual.”

These unusual combinations, called “remote associations,” are related ideas that may seem unrelated at first glance. They are the essence of creative thinking.

To cultivate creativity, you want to increase your chances of stumbling on an unexpected link. Here are four strategies you can use in your everyday life that will train your mind to be more creative in business:

1. Shake up your routine. To expand your creative horizons, surround yourself with a broad range of perspectives and experiences. A diverse workplace is helpful, but it isn’t enough. Outside work, seek variety in what you eat, where you hang out, the types of art you look at, the places you travel, or the books you read.

Entrepreneur.com – How to Train Your Creative Mind

Get Better / Play Hard — Comments Off on Inc. – Get a Life Outside Your Start-up: 22 Tips
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Jan 12

Inc. – Get a Life Outside Your Start-up: 22 Tips

Work-life balance a little out of whack? We asked busy entrepreneurs to give us their best tricks for coping with the daily grind.

Launching a start-up is demanding and takes huge amounts of time, energy, and attention. Is it possible to have a life outside of work? It’s not easy, say the founders I talked to, but they do have tips to help you launch and maintain some vestige of work-life balance.

1. Start dancing. It’s physical, it’s fun, it’s social, and you can’t check your phone or be working on your laptop while you’re out dancing. Find the coolest place wherever you live, and go out dancing once a week. You’ll feel completely renewed, energized and ready to tackle the world, or at least your start-up. – Vivian Rosenthal, founder and CEO of GoldRun, an augmented reality iOS application.

More of the Inc. article from Christina DesMarais