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Over many extended field visits, Hawkes and her colleagues kept track of how much food a wide sample of Hadza community members were bringing home. She says that when they tracked the success rates of individual men, “they almost always failed to get a big animal.” They found that the average hunter went out pretty much every day and was successful on exactly 3.4 percent of those excursions. That meant that, in this society at least, the hunting hypothesis seemed way off the mark. If people here were depend
Over many extended field visits, Hawkes and her colleagues kept track of how much food a wide sample of Hadza community members were bringing home. She says that when they tracked the success rates of individual men, “they almost always failed to get a big animal.” They found that the average hunter went out pretty much every day and was successful on exactly 3.4 percent of those excursions. That meant that, in this society at least, the hunting hypothesis seemed way off the mark. If people here were depending on wild meat to survive, they would starve.
So if dad wasn’t bringing home the bacon, who was? After spending a lot of time with the women on their daily foraging trips, the researchers were surprised to discover that the women, both young and old, were providing the majority of calories to their families and group-mates.
Mostly, they were digging tubers, which are deeply buried and hard to extract. The success of a mother at gathering these tubers correlated with the growth of her child. But something else surprising happened once mom had a second baby: That original relationship went away and a new correlation emerged with the amount of food their grandmother was gathering.

Source: For Human Evolution, Root-Gathering Grandmas May Have Been More Important Than Man The Hunter : Goats and Soda : NPR

And maybe most uncomfortably, the film surfaces why. There’s a clip near the end of the film in which a talking head on Fox News decries Rogers and the “narcissistic society he gave birth to.” I briefly expected the audience at my screening to riot, because it was such a plainly stupid response to what we’d just seen. Fred Rogers believed in radical kindness. Focus Features But it’s also a good example of the confusion that marks public discourse today, in which kindness far too often is decried as weakness

Source: Won’t You Be My Neighbor review: a subversive Fred Rogers documentary – Vox

So the main goal of Won’t You Be My Neighbor is to convince us that while kindness and empathy are in short supply today, it need not be that way. Through interviews with Rogers’s close collaborators and friends (his wife, several performers, and the head of the Fred Rogers Center), archival footage (some of it rare), and interstitial animated segments, the film builds out a portrait of a man who saw in the new technology of television an opportunity to communicate with a generation of children and tell the

Source: Won’t You Be My Neighbor review: a subversive Fred Rogers documentary – Vox

The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon wherein high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area. Its name comes from the story of Pygmalion, a mythical Greek sculptor. Pygmalion carved a statue of a woman and then became enamored with it. Unable to love a human, Pygmalion appealed to Aphrodite, the goddess of love. She took pity and brought the statue to life. The couple married and went on to have a daughter, Paphos.

Source: The Pygmalion Effect: Proving Them Right

The Snowball Principle And How To Have It All The Snowball Principle is the idea that we can have it all if we’re willing to:

1. Get the fundamentals right FIRST and make them non-negotiable.
2. Have Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals (BHAGS), but be patient with them.
3. Replace all-or-nothing sprints with a marathon mentality.

Source: An Ambitious Person’s Brutally Honest Take On Work-Life Balance

Thanks to new text-mining techniques, this has now been done. Researchers at the University of Vermont’s Computational Story Lab have analysed over 1,700 English novels to reveal six basic story types – you could call them archetypes – that form the building blocks for more complex stories. They are:
1. Rags to riches – a steady rise from bad to good fortune
2. Riches to rags – a fall from good to bad, a tragedy
3. Icarus – a rise then a fall in fortune
4. Oedipus – a fall, a rise then a fall again
5. Cinderella – rise, fall, rise
6. Man in a hole – fall, rise

Source: BBC – Culture – Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots

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Top 5 SQL and Database Courses to Learn Online — Best of the Lot For those looking to gain a deeper knowledge of SQL or even those just looking to brush up, here are five online database courses to help you get there.
Source: Top 5 SQL and Database Courses to Learn Online — Best of the Lot – DZone Database

Small. Boutique. High-level. Responsive and hands on. Tech savvy and forward thinking… these are qualities the Goliaths are trying desperately to convey in their rebrands and new marketing starting decades ago with marketing campaigns like Charles Schwab’s “talk to Chuck”. But however effective such advertising might be at hooking in new clients, it can’t deliver these types of values compared to a real David. The overhead alone makes it impossible. You couldn’t have done this 10 years ago. The market, the

Source: How To Stand Out As A Small Consultancy And Crush Goliaths

Link from marginal revolutions blog

Overconfidence has been studied in 3 distinct ways.
Overestimation is thinking that you are better than you are.
Overplacement is the exaggerated belief that you are better than others.
Overprecision is the excessive faith that you know the truth.
These 3 forms of overconfidence manifest themselves under different conditions, have different causes, and have widely varying consequences. It is a mistake to treat them as if they were the same or to assume that they have the same psychological origins.

Source: The three faces of overconfidence – Moore – 2017 – Social and Personality Psychology Compass – Wiley Online Library

Listening for EmotionAt the fourth level we listen for any emotions and or identity issues that may be driving their argument.  These emotions or issues may (unlikely) or may not (most assuredly) make sense to us but at this level we recognize their significance to the other side as they talk about what is important to them. Listening for Their Point of ViewOne level beyond that is where we listen for what their argument, phrase, or statement says about who they are in world.  What does it symbolize or represent to them?  This is where we filter their emotion and logic through a prism of empathy. It is where we should be as negotiators. Getting beyond the cursory level of understanding to a deeper appreciation of their world view.  If we do not understand their world view, we do not really understand them.  If we do not understand them, we will never influence them.  It it is difficult to maintain this level of listening every waking moment of everyday but we need to be ready and willing to get here when the situation dictates.

Source: Did You Know There Are 5 Levels of Listening?