What got my attention on twitter this week

...and the books, podcasts and a few fun quotes.

Although officially retired, I love my 70-hour work week. There is nothing called weekend or ‘poya’ in my schedule. What is it that I do, you ask? I study (20 hours), teach (8 lecture hours+10 prep hours), read (14 hours) and the rest is counseling. In between (those mini breaks that Pomodoro allows), I love to explore what’s happening on social media. The content is amazing, and I love to share my findings.

Follow the Twitter list ‘University’ @varufernando for a great collection of tweets.

Rob Henderson @robkhenderson

"people higher in openness tend to experience greater difficulties in their sex lives, their sleeping and eating habits, and their finances...These more open individuals inadvertently increased their neuroticism because of their more open personalities" psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-06…

Harvard Health @HarvardHealth

Research shows that the best brain foods are the same ones that protect your heart. and blood vessels. #HarvardHealth bit.ly/3Iv0Ob8

Gabe Pluguez @Gabepluguez

My Dad had $532,012 of medical bills due to obesity. If you're overweight, read this:

Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

Questioning your abilities doesn’t mean you have impostor syndrome. It’s a normal response to a new challenge or a difficult task. The absence of doubt breeds arrogance. Feeling unsure maintains humility. A lack of confidence is a reminder that you have something to learn.

Rob Henderson @robkhenderson

"joblessness tends to damage subjective wellbeing, but appears particularly damaging when individuals are uniquely unemployed among people in their local social environment..joblessness was harmful to individuals' subjective wellbeing when they were surrounded by employed people"

Coach Friso @TheCoachFriso

PopEye lied to you…. Here is the truth. //THREAD//

A few books I downloaded (cheap on Kindle, with our dollar crisis and all), but fantastic on value:

Finally, here is the best podcast I listened to this week. Its the latest from Sam Harris, having a great conversation with Peter Zeihan and Ian Bremmer:

I leave you with a couple of quotes for the weekend:

The holiest of all holidays are those

Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. - Bertrand Russell (The Conquest of Happiness)