507这篇原文的内容大概如下：
作者的咨询业务由雇主的需求（希望激励员工更好工作），变到如何帮助个人管理。如何更好理解认识自己呢？不要去一分为二的看世界，我们不要让自己限制在狭小的思维局限。有效领导的目标不是要成为全面发展，而是有一个互补的团队。
How to Become a More Well-Rounded Leader
By Tony Schwartz
For years, when I spoke with CEOs or senior leaders, it was because they were interested in how my consulting firm could help their employees become more engaged, or innovative, or sustainably high-performing. During the past year – and especially the past six months – I’ve been hearing a different and much more personal initial question: “Can you help me better manage my own life?”
Consider the challenges that modern corporate leaders — and especially CEOs — now face, in addition to running their companies every day:
A high likelihood that the company they run has a business model that is being seriously disrupted打乱, most often as a result of technology.
A far more vocal发声的 and influential group of stakeholders, including employees, customers, and the public at large, all emboldened by their access to social media and by the speed at which their opinions can go viral.
vocal发声的at large随便emboldened大胆
A highly volatile political climate that has prompted fear and uncertainty both inside and outside companies.
Ambivalence about how to best attract, manage, and retain Millennials, who now represent the largest generation in the workforce, expect more flexibility in the way they work, and prefer to work for employers with a mission that goes beyond maximizing profit.
ambivalence矛盾心态
How can leaders balance these complex and often competing demands? The core challenge for modern leaders, I believe, is to become more wholly human – to actively develop a wider range of capabilities and to more deeply understand themselves.
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Procrastination is an Opportunity, Not a Suckfest
By Leo Babauta
So what should we do instead? Ideally:
We set a hard task before us.
We feel the difficulty, but see this as a signpost that we’re pushing into uncertain ground.
signpost路标
We relish the opportunity to push into uncertain ground, and dive in with gusto. (I love the word “gusto,” btw.)
But that’s not where we are. We have to practice in this way:
Set a hard task, feel like procrastinating because it’s uncertain and uncomfortable …
Start to procrastinate by going to something easy.
Once we’ve switched over and noticed that we’re procrastinating … we pause. This Pause is the key to everything.
We see this Pause as an opportunity to practice a key life skill, and we light up with joy. And yes, gusto.
We practice with discomfort and uncertainty. What does it feel like? Is it horrible? Can we work in the midst of it? Can we open up to the discomfort of it all, embrace the uncertainty, and see it as a beautiful part of what we’re doing?
Slowly, through this practice, we can get better at not running, at staying with the discomfort, at embracing it all, at being patient and joyful in the middle of chaos and the unknown.
Commit yourself to this practice. You’ll find it life-changing and gorgeous.令人愉快的
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the four-year-old's world
will and self
I feel for the four-year-old:
so much of his world
plays by rules he just can’t quite buy into,
he feels them arbitrary, capricious,武断的，反复无常的
he feels duty-bound to resist them, reject them,有责任去反抗拒绝他们
the rules of physics work for him,
for physical actions have consequences that just are:
dropped things drop,
he has to adjust his climb, his moves on a structure,
guided by an understanding
that gravity cares nothing for what he wants,
the rules of people seem to be fungible,可替代的
open to possibility of change,
the self an artist and the parents’ world a canvas
upon which the ego can work its will
to create whatever the self, at the moment,
imagines to be most pleasing,
I applaud assertion of self,
for we must be the self as individual
before that individual can choose to follow love
into the larger, the self in connection,
will, in ignorance, though, can be as King Canute
who ordered the tide to not come in,
and how did that come out?
the four-year-old, in contrary mode,
asserts a self-centeredness that seems to beg to be thwarted,阻挠的
controlled and disciplined by a dominant parent,
how much harder, and better,
if the parents use all their creativity, patience, and love,
to help guide the self into learning what’s out there,
learning when to lose because the battle isn’t worth it,
and learning how to win when love is the referee.
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Starbucks Closes Online Store to Focus on In-Person Experience
As customers increasingly shift their retail shopping toward e-commerce, Starbucks is bucking the trend: It shuttered its online store on Sunday.
The company posted a notice in late August on its online store notifying shoppers that the site would soon close. The digital store stocked items like Starbucks coffee and branded mugs and tumblers, along with a selection of espresso machines, brewing tools and other accessories.
“You can purchase your favorite coffee and Starbucks merchandise in your local Starbucks,” the company wrote in a note to customers about the closing of the online store. “We cannot guarantee availability of any product in stores, but we know you will find many choices to enjoy.”
Maggie Jantzen, a company spokeswoman, said that the decision to shut down the online store was part of a push to “simplify” Starbucks’ sales channels.
“We’re continuing to invest in amplifying Starbucks as a must-visit destination and are looking across our portfolio to make disciplined, thoughtful decisions,” Ms. Jantzen said.
The company’s chief executive, Kevin Johnson, spoke on Starbucks’ most recent earnings call about a “seismic shift” in retailing. To survive, he said, merchants need to create unique and immersive in-store experiences. (Starbucks decided in July to close its nearly 400 Teavana stores in malls, which, Mr. Johnson said, were “persistently underperforming.”)
Howard Schultz, the chairman of Starbucks, indicated a few months earlier that he had soured on digital sales.
“Every retailer that is going to win in this new environment must become an experiential destination,” Mr. Schultz told investors in April. “Your product and services, for the most part, cannot be available online and cannot be available on Amazon.”
Starbucks said it would continue to sell branded products like coffee through grocery stores and some online sites managed by its sales partners.
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Meet three new people every week
By Derek Sivers
One of the best books about the music business was called “Making It in the New Music Business” by James Riordan.
He suggested that, as an aspiring musician (or producer/agent/writer/etc.) - you make a point to meet three new people in the music industry every week.
Imagine that! Three new people every single week - people that could actually help your career! In a year from now you’ll have relationships with over 150 new people that are potential “lottery tickets” - and hopefully the interest is mutual.
The thing is, you have to develop these relationships.
Put them on your A, B, or C list. Stay in touch. Go beyond the introduction, and really get to know these people, what they’re looking for in business and life, what they’re interested in, and how you can help them.
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Origin
By Dan Brown
PROLOGUE
As the ancient cogwheel train clawed its way up the dizzying incline, Edmond Kirsch surveyed the jagged mountaintop above him. In the distance, built into the face of a sheer cliff, the massive stone monastery seemed to hang in space, as if magically fused to the vertical precipice.
This timeless sanctuary in Catalonia, Spain, had endured the relentless pull of gravity for more than four centuries, never slipping from its original purpose: to insulate its occupants from the modern world.
Ironically, they will now be the first to learn the truth, Kirsch thought, wondering how they would react. Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God…especially when their gods became threatened. And I am about to hurl a flaming spear into a hornets’ nest.
When the train reached the mountaintop, Kirsch saw a solitary figure waiting for him on the platform. The wizened skeleton of a man was draped in the traditional Catholic purple cassock and white rochet, with a zucchetto on his head. Kirsch recognized his host’s rawboned features from photos and felt an unexpected surge of adrenaline.
Valdespino is greeting me personally.
Bishop Antonio Valdespino was a formidable figure in Spain—not only a trusted friend and counselor to the king himself, but one of the country’s most vocal and influential advocates for the preservation of conservative Catholic values and traditional political standards.
“Edmond Kirsch, I assume?” the bishop intoned as Kirsch exited the train.
“Guilty as charged,” Kirsch said, smiling as he reached out to shake his host’s bony hand. “Bishop Valdespino, I want to thank you for arranging this meeting.”
“I appreciate your requesting it.” The bishop’s voice was stronger than Kirsch expected—clear and penetrating, like a bell. “It is not often we are consulted by men of science, especially one of your prominence. This way, please.”
As Valdespino guided Kirsch across the platform, the cold mountain air whipped at the bishop’s cassock.
“I must confess,” Valdespino said, “you look different than I imagined. I was expecting a scientist, but you’re quite…” He eyed his guest’s sleek Kiton K50 suit and Barker ostrich shoes with a hint of disdain. “ ‘Hip,’ I believe, is the word?”
Kirsch smiled politely. The word “hip” went out of style decades ago.
“In reading your list of accomplishments,” the bishop said, “I am still not entirely sure what it is you do.”
“I specialize in game theory and computer modeling.”
“So you make the computer games that the children play?”
Kirsch sensed the bishop was feigning ignorance in an attempt to be quaint. More accurately, Kirsch knew, Valdespino was a frighteningly well-informed student of technology and often warned others of its dangers. “No, sir, actually game theory is a field of mathematics that studies patterns in order to make predictions about the future.”
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睡得越少，死得越早。注意是睡眠总时间，如果早起早睡，会提高工作生活效率，但不会影响睡眠时间。
The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science
Leading neuroscientist Matthew Walker on why sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of cancer, heart attack and Alzheimer’s – and what you can do about it
deprivation缺乏Alzheimer哈兹海默病症
By Rachel Cooke
Matthew Walker has learned to dread the question “What do you do?” At parties, it signals the end of his evening; thereafter, his new acquaintance will inevitably cling to him like ivy. On an aeroplane, it usually means that while everyone else watches movies or reads a thriller, he will find himself running an hours-long salon for the benefit of passengers and crew alike. “I’ve begun to lie,” he says. “Seriously. I just tell people I’m a dolphin trainer. It’s better for everyone.”
dread惧怕
Walker is a sleep scientist. To be specific, he is the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, a research institute whose goal – possibly unachievable – is to understand everything about sleep’s impact on us, from birth to death, in sickness and health. No wonder, then, that people long for his counsel. As the line between work and leisure grows ever more blurred, rare is the person who doesn’t worry about their sleep. But even as we contemplate the shadows beneath our eyes, most of us don’t know the half of it – and perhaps this is the real reason he has stopped telling strangers how he makes his living. When Walker talks about sleep he can’t, in all conscience, limit himself to whispering comforting nothings about camomile tea and warm baths. It’s his conviction that we are in the midst of a “catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic”, the consequences of which are far graver than any of us could imagine. This situation, he believes, is only likely to change if government gets involved.
camomile 黄春菊epidemic流行病
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