THE ANTI-REEL
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THE ANTI-REEL
One idea, told in a handful of cards. Half a minute each, and every one of them ends at the book it was struck from.
NO. 4HISTORY
For 500 years, the Bodleian made even kings read on-site. Stubbornness turned out to be a preservation strategy.
NO. 6ART
The Great Wave was made by a 70-year-old who considered everything before age 50 a warm-up.
NO. 5PSYCHOLOGY
The observation that cracks rumination open: thoughts arrive; you don't send them.
NO. 118COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Charles Duhigg's research explains the fight you have with your spouse that neither of you can quite name.
NO. 15ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Derek Sivers didn't set out to build a company. He tried to keep one from happening — and the constraint became the model.
NO. 124MINDFULNESS & HAPPINESS
One insult outlasts ten compliments in memory, and the psychologist Rick Hanson has a name for why.
NO. 111NATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Peter Wohlleben's forestry memoir argues that what looks like silent competition underground is closer to rationing.
NO. 94MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP
Bill Walsh took over the worst team in football and refused, for months, to talk about victory at all.