How to retain more of every book you read and a solution for loneliness [best reads]

How to retain more of every book you read and a solution for loneliness [best reads] How to retain more of every book you read and a solution for loneliness [best reads] Every week, I come across insightful posts about behavior change that affect health, wealth, and productivity.At the end of the week (on Fridays), I share ten of the best posts at the intersection of personal development, psychology, technology, and productivity with my Postanly Weekly subscribers.Follow Ladders on Flipboard!Follow Ladders’ magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and more!I handpicked some of the best long reads across the web that are almost as good as reading a book. Shorter than a book but equally valuable.It’s a healthy mix of ideas on how to work better, make smarter decisions, and everything you need to build a better life and career.Sign up here to get future issues. Join over 38,000 people on a mission to build a better life.Issue 230How to Use Spaced Repetition to Retain More of Every Book You Read |  MediumReading offers the freedom to roam the expanse of space, time, history, and offer a deeper view of i deas, concepts, emotions, and a whole body of knowledge. Except we don’t remember a lot of what we read after a few months or years.A Solution for Loneliness | Scientific AmericanLoneliness is rampant, and it’s killing us?- ?literally. Anywhere from one quarter to one half of Americans feel lonely a lot of the time, which puts them at risk for developing a range of physical and mental illnesses, including heart disease…Can We Live Longer But Stay Younger? | New  YorkerAging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. The slow way is the familiar one: decades pass with little sense of internal change, middle age arrives with only a slight slowing down…4 Ways to Quiet Imposter Syndrome And Start Believing in Yourself | TED  IdeasMany of us have an inner voice telling us we lucked into what we have or we’re a fraud. That’s normal; the problem is when we believe it. Here’s how to start recognizing your own worth, from coach and consultant Tania Katan.How Progress Compounds And Why It Matters |  FS“Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” It’s unclear exactly who first made that statement, when they said it, or how it was phrased.Reward Yourself with Negative Reinforcement | Zapier  BlogRecently, many of us at Zapier were talking about motivating yourself through reinforcements and how finding the right reinforcements is really hard. It reminded me of a concept from operant conditioning.Can Decluttering Really Make You Happier? | BBC  Future“Tidying can transform your life.” This is the beguiling promise from Japanese decluttering evangelist Marie Kondo. Around 11 million people have bought her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up…You Procrastinate Because Of Emotions, Not Laziness. Regulate Them To Stop Procrastinating! | Cognitive TodayThere are two trains of thought?- ?One leads to procrastination and one leads to motivation. And somewhere in between, there is a junction called anxiety. Let’s first look at the procrastination train of thought (at least that’s going somewhere…Feeling Stuck at Work? Here’s How to Keep Moving Forward | Scott  YoungIn the last lesson, I showed why a lot of plans people make to avoid their work are misguided. Either the schemes don’t work at all (because they defy basic economic logic) or they result in escaping work only to leave a vacuum with nothing…The Dangers of Treating Ideas From Finance as Generalised Self Help | Common  PlaceI thought it would be a little prudent?- ?given that I’ve been writing about time allocation as capital allocation recently?- ?to recap the dangers of reading too much into ideas drawn from the field of finance. What do I mean by this?  Until Next Week,Thomas, Curator at Postaly Weekly  This article first appeared on Medium.    You might also enjoy… New neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happy Strangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds 10 lessons from Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule that will double your productivity The worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs 10 habits of mentally strong people