Barking Up The Wrong Tree | The personality trait that predicts your future (and more)

Email look all funky? View it in your browser. Follow on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Barking Up The Wrong Tree is proud to be listed on blogrolls at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. My Wired Magazine columns are here. You can email me here. Books worth a look: Wisdom of Psychopaths How Children Succeed Snoop: What your stuff says about you Maximum Brainpower Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard The Happiness Advantage Creating Minds The Paradox of Choice You're getting this email because you opted-in to weekly email updates at Barking Up The Wrong Tree. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, click here to unsubscribe. Thanks. Top 5 Must-Reads: Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest? (Nurse = good, CEO = bad.) Can one personality trait determine your future? (Conscientiousness predicts a frightening amount.) Why people post so many annoying personal status updates (I feel your Facebook pain.) Do Starbucks employees have more emotional intelligence than your doctor? (Absolutely.) Are hope and despair both self-fulfilling prophecies? (Your brain only plays if it thinks it can win.) So what did we learn this week? Work What strategies really improve companies? (It all comes down to employees and feelings.) What’s the secret to being happy at home and fulfilled at work? (Focus on what you're good at.) What means more to you: money or status? (Most would rather be a big fish in a small pond.) Who is more courageous: soldiers, police, firefighters or… business executives? (Execs, believe it or not.) Choice, Change and Miscellany What 5 counterintuitive things can help you make better choices? (Less is more when it comes to choices.) What are the three steps to making change easy? (Get the rational and emotional brain engaged.) Are genius and autism connected? (Genius may be a type of autism.) What weird little thing do almost all reality shows have in common? (They're not here to make friends.) Email Exclusives: Other interesting stuff from the far corners of the internet: What should you do when you get a spam text? Excellent profile of Oliver Sacks and his new book Hallucinations. What does it feel like to murder someone? Politics is a cognitive bias circus. This Planet Money podcast is great. Want to see the interesting stuff I've been posting to Twitter, all in a nice magazine-style format? Go here. Last week's update is here. That's it for this week. If you have thoughts, questions, or just wanna say hello, you can always reply to this email. Thanks for reading! Eric  follow on Twitter | follow on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 Eric Barker, All rights reserved. You signed up for weekly updates from the "Barking Up The Wrong Tree" blog at www.bakadesuyo.com. Our mailing address is: Bakadesuyo 1706 Gentry Square Lane, #202 Champaign, IL 61821 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences