1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
You can do this.
The last two Fridays, we’ve explored why being a great place to work is a great idea.
First, great workplaces are poised to win the … continue reading
1: Compared with our ancestors, we are significantly less likely to die by homicide, automobile accident, plane crash, a fall, or in a fire.
So far this week, we’ve examined multiple areas with much to celebrate.
There is, however, one area of accidental death where the news is not good: Poison (solid or liquid).
Because this category includes drug overdoses.
2: 98 percent of the “poison” deaths are … continue reading
1: “Since 1980, about 650,000 Americans have lived who would have died if traffic death rates had remained the same,” Steven Pinker writes in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
Automobile deaths are down twenty-four-fold since the numbers were tabulated for the first time in 1921. Which is “not even the full story,” he writes, “since for every person who died there were others who … continue reading
1: Many people believe that we live in the worst of times and that things continue to get worse.
Nothing could be farther from the truth, Steven Pinker writes in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
How do we know this is true?
Data.
In prior RiseWithDrews, we’ve looked at a number of incredible trends: the mind-boggling uptick in prosperity, the dramatic decline … continue reading
“Time is measured in minutes. Life is measured in moments.” —Mark Batterson… continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Let’s say we’re going to buy something.
It’s a significant purchase. We’re going to lay out some of our hard-earned cash.
Imagine we have two options.
Option one? We … continue reading
1: And how do we create more of them?
Those are amongst the questions Chip and Dan Heath pose in their terrific book The Power of Moments.
Chip and Dan share the research of Harry Reis, a social psychologist who has spent his career studying this mystery.
Turns our there is a simple answer: Our relationships are stronger when we perceive that our partners are responsive to us.
2: What does … continue reading
1: “The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period,” says Dr. Robert Waldinger, director of the longest and most comprehensive study on human happiness.
Period. Hard stop.
Robert tells us: “It’s not the number of friends you have; it’s the quality of your close relationships that matters.”
In his book The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor shares … continue reading
1: Yesterday, we looked at the stunning increase in prosperity over the past 200 years.
“The story of the growth of prosperity in human history is close to: nothing . . . nothing . . . nothing . . . (repeat for a few thousand years) . . . boom!” writes Steven Pinker in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
Imagine a standard nine-inch pie … continue reading
“I do not know if you have ever examined how you listen, it doesn’t matter to what, whether to a bird, to the wind in the leaves, to the rushing waters, or how you listen in a dialogue with yourself, to your conversation in various relationships with your intimate friends your wife or husband. If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our … continue reading
