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Check your head
This document provides tips and resources for creating space, resilience, and managing stress and distress. It discusses the importance of managing emotions, having space to respond rather than react, awareness, cooperation, and willingness to change. Blind spots, chronic stress, and stories we tell ourselves can get in the way. The document recommends embracing challenges, learning from criticism, practicing gratitude, and finding humor. Resources listed at the end include books, podcasts, and articles on mindfulness, decision-making, and managing technology.
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Check your head
- 1. Check Your Head SomeObservations on Space and Resilience
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- 4. I Am NotYour Dad
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- 11. Lens is Stuck “Pleaseremove the ‘e’ in ‘judgement’ in one of your slides (towards the end).”
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- 13. The Tools WhenThings Don’t Go As “Planned”?
- 14. Stress and Distress(Getting Stuck)
- 15. Chronic Stress andthe Mind/Body
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- 18. What is MissingWhen Distress Sticks? • The Capability to Manage Emotion • Space to Respond (Rather Than React) • Context/Awareness • Cooperation/Collaboration/Communication (Listening) • The Willingness to Change (Curiosity, Creativity)
- 19. You May NotSee The Whole Picture
- 22. Blind Spots (Frame,Lens, Tuning)
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- 25. Sometimes We arethe Tool
- 26. Servant Becomes Partof the Master
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- 28. Noticing The StoriesYou Tell
- 30. Space in YourHead
- 34. Growth is Uncomfortable Embrace Challenges Learnfrom Criticism
- 35. Build Things ThatCan’t Be Taken Away
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- 38. Create Space ForAttention
- 39. Create Space withComputer Tools Evernote Podcasts
- 41. Practice Gratitude ByGiving Time
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- 45. Work Hard ‘TillThe End of Your Shift
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- 47. Give Yourself Spaceto Laugh - At Yourself
- 48. Where the RealWork Is …
- 49. Conclusion: Create Space forSolving Problems
- 50. Resources • Jeena Cho,The Anxious Lawyer, https://www.amazon.com/Anxious-Lawyer-Satisfying- Mindfulness-Meditation/dp/1627226249 • Baba Shiv, How Do You Find Breakthrough Ideas?, Stanford Graduate School of Business, http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/baba-shiv-how-do-you-find- breakthrough-ideas • The Resilient Lawyer http://theanxiouslawyer.com/rl-23-jack-pringle/ • Farnham Street https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/ • One You Feed With Michael Taft http://www.oneyoufeed.net/michael-taft/ • Tim Ferris with Brene Brown http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/08/28/brene-brown- on-vulnerability-and-home-run-ted-talks/ • On Being With Ellen Langer http://www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-langer-science-of- mindlessness-and-mindfulness/6332 • You Are Not So Smart http://youarenotsosmart.libsyn.com/062-naive-realism-lee-ross-0 • “How Biases, Politics and Egos Trump Good Strategy,” Chris Bradley, January 16, 2018 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-biases-politics-egos-derail-business-decisions- chris-bradley/?kui=qdGk5TG7MixpsWIoQ-NS2Q
- 51. More Resources The ChecklistManifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000 Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better, by Clive Thompson http://www.amazon.com/Smarter-Than-You-Think-Technology/dp/1594204454 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-Dweck/dp/0345472322 Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, by Adam Grant http://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Helping-Others-Success/dp/0143124986 Resolve to Use Your Device as a Tool- And to Resist Being Tooled By It https://medium.com/@jjpringlesc/resolve-to- use-your-device-as-a-tool-and-resist-being-tooled-by-it-3bccb43f98ab 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia “Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way: Negotiating Secrets with Chris Voss,” The Knowledge Project Podcast, https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2018/01/chris-voss/