{"id":32426,"date":"2018-10-28T02:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=32426"},"modified":"2018-10-25T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T18:01:03","slug":"radical-marketstrimdeal-with-difficult-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/radical-marketstrimdeal-with-difficult-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Markets\/Trim\/Deal with difficult emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alternative economic ideas<\/strong>
\nCrazy ideas sometimes become everyday and obvious. No book I\u2019ve read has had more crazy economic ideas than\u00a0Radical Markets by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl<\/a>. Their ideas \u2014 which rethink the idea of property and taxes \u2014 are intriguing, and even if wrong, might be productively wrong. It is dense reading, but exhilarating. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Hire a negotiator to lower your bills<\/strong>
\nTrim<\/a>\u00a0is an online service that negotiates with your phone, cable TV, and Internet providers to reduce your monthly bill by asking for a discount. Sure, I could do this myself, but I\u2019m happy to pay someone else a 33% commission on the money they save me. \u00a0So far they\u2019ve successfully reduced my annual bills by $543.24. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

How to deal with difficult emotions<\/strong>
\nPracticing mindfulness is easier said than done.\u00a0This chart<\/a>\u00a0breaks it down into six easy steps to make sense of your difficult emotions. I find that visualizing my emotion as a little tangled mess that lives outside of my body makes it less likely I will react impulsively. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Cooperative tabletop game<\/strong>
\nMost board games have a winner and a bunch of losers. But there are a number of games where users must work with each other to achieve a goal. One of the best is cooperative games is\u00a0Forbidden Island<\/a>\u00a0($18). The goal of this attractively designed card and token game is to recover four life-saving treasures from an island before it sinks into the ocean, drowning all the players. Achieving victory requires players to formulate plans, agree on strategies, and make sacrifices. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Inspiring livelihood documentary<\/strong>
\nShorebreak<\/a>\u00a0is a fast 60 minute doc on\u00a0Amazon Prime<\/a>\u00a0about this surfer who found a special niche in photography. His thing is standing at the scary point where giant waves break onto the beach while he photographs whatever crazy surfers are in the wave, before he ducks under the pummeling mountain. The doc is well done, his photography is stunning. But what I love is the lesson of focus, enthusiasm, mastery, and foolish individualization. His relentless enthusiasm, going back to the shorebreak day after day to see if he could make something new again and again, has improbably earned him a living doing this. What a treat! \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Quotables<\/strong>
\nBelow are some enlightening things I\u2019ve read lately. \u2014 CD<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLoneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.\u201d \u2014 Rupi Kaur<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you say something unkind, when you do something in retaliation, your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and they try hard to say or do something back to make you suffer, and get relief from their suffering. That is how conflict escalates.\u201d \u2014 Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within<\/p>\n

\u201cYour assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won\u2019t come in.\u201d \u2014 Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.\u201d \u2014 Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn\u2019t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.\u201d \u2014 Charles Bukowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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