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Want to Stop Procrastinating? A Stanford Neuroscientist Says Just Take a Cold Shower - Inc.com

We all procrastinate. We all, at least some of the time, avoid doing things we really need or want to do.

And when we put things off, we tend to hate the fact we procrastinate (notable exception: Adam Grant, who actually taught himself to procrastinate.)

That's because procrastinating isn't logical. Why find ways, passively or actively, to avoid starting the tasks you feel will make a huge difference in your professional or personal life?

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The Paradox of Listening to Our Bodies - The New Yorker

My husband worries a lot about his heart. “I feel something right here,” he’ll say, pointing to a spot on his chest. I have a hard time knowing how to respond to these reports; unless I’m doing cardio, I’m never aware of my heartbeat, and even then I can’t really feel it. After my husband’s cardiologist told him that there was nothing wrong with his heart, I figured that his fascination with it was just melodrama, or hypochondria.

Then I read a study by Sarah Garfinkel, a neuroscientist at University College London. Garfinkel monitored the heartbeats of twenty people who’d been diagnosed with autism, and also asked them to count the beats themselves. In a second study with sixty autistic individuals, she played a rhythmic, beeping tone and asked her subjects to say whether it was in synch with their pulses. At first, many people who’d declared themselves “good” at detecting their own heartbeats failed these tasks. But, as the tests went on, they improved. Some of the participants had reported having anxiety, and about a third of them said that, as they became better at detecting their heartbeats accurately, they also felt less anxious. My husband isn’t autistic, but he does experience anxiety, and Garfinkel’s study made me wonder whether he might be like some of her study participants. Maybe he was wrongly convinced that he was good at feeling his heartbeat, but also able to improve that sense—a change that could ease his worries.

Scientists call our ability to feel what’s happening inside our bodies interoception. A portmanteau of “interior” and “reception,” it differs from perception, which comes from our five senses, and proprioception, which tells us how we are oriented in space. Interoception is an inner sense having to do with our bodily processes. It can be divided into three rough categories. The first comprises feelings that break through into consciousness based on need; this is how we know when we need to pee or sleep or hydrate, and how we grasp that our hearts are racing after a good jump scare. The second encompasses the unconscious ways in which our brains and bodies communicate; our brains detect high glucose levels in our livers, for example, then release hormones that trigger our metabolisms, and we are unaware of the process. A vast number of these silent interoceptive processes are going on within us all the time.

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Understanding Body Language: 7 Strategies For Job Interview Success - Forbes

Words are only part of the story, in the job interview process - and understanding body language is the best way to create success in your career. Body language is the sum total off all the signs we give off when we communicate, including gestures, posture, eye contact and more. These seven strategies below will help set you up for job interview success.

When the conversation matters to you, take time to focus on what matters. Don’t go into the job interview without alignment and connection. Otherwise, your body language can betray you. With a deeper understanding of effective communication, body language can convey a level of authenticity and commitment that supports your career ambition. Maybe you wonder what could make this whole job interview process easier. When it comes to your career, you don’t have to go it alone - that’s where coaching can make a difference. What story do you want your body language to tell, in your next job interview?

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Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work—and is ignoring the return-to-office trend - Fortune

Few if any companies have been hotter this year than Nvidia. Amid the boom in artificial intelligence, its high-powered chips are clamored over by the likes of Amazon, Meta, and Google.

Yet while those companies and many others have issued return-to-office mandates, Nvidia, which has about 26,000 employees worldwide and a valuation of over $1 trillion, is bucking the trend and putting no pressure on remote workers to commute to cubicles.

In May 2020, Huang said he had “no trouble with” letting employees work out of the their home indefinitely. “There’s no question we’re going to do this,” he told VentureBeat at the time.

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