Pinkcast 2.17: Life advice from Warren Buffett
19 words to use in providing feedback.
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: To find out more about The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, visit Daniel Coyle’s site. The research comes from “Breaking the cycle of mistrust: Wise interventions to provide critical feedback across the racial divide,” which appeared in the April 2014 edition of the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Pinkcast 2.15: This is when you should drink coffee.
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: For more on the effects of caffeine on cortisol, see this 2009 study. On the science of nappuccinos, see this paper from Psychophysiology and this paper from Clinical Neurophysiology.
Pinkcast 2.14. This is the best time of day to exercise
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: All the research encapsulated here is explained more fully on pages 44 through 46 of WHEN: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.
Pinkcast 2.13. How to be great at work: Do less and obsess
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: Morten’s book is Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More. (Buy it at Amazon, BN.com, IndieBound, or 8CR.) You can find out more about Morten and his research on his site.
Pinkcast 2.12: This is how to network without feeling slimy
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: Eric’s Book is Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success is (Mostly) Wrong. (Buy it at Amazon, BN.com, iBooks, IndieBound, or 8CR.) Eric’s weekly newsletter is one of the best around. You can subscribe — it’s free! — here. The go-to academic paper
Pinkcast 2.11: 86 days this year when you can change your behavior
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: The paper referenced in the video is The Fresh Start Effect: Temporal Landmarks Motivate Aspirational Behavior. Its authors are Hengchen Dai, Katherine Milkman, and Jason Riis. Here are 86 dates that are especially effective for making a fresh start: • The first day of the month (twelve) • Mondays (fifty-two)
Pinkcast 2.10: This is how to use science to choose the perfect gift
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: The great animations and new title card in this Pinkcast are the work of the creative minds at Tremendousness. The paper I mention is Giving them what they want: The benefits of explicitness in gift exchange. Its authors are Francesca Gino and Francis Flynn. Another interesting related study is Overindividuation in
Pinkcast 2.9: Which should you give first — good news or bad news?
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: The research, described in chapter 5 of WHEN: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, comes from social psychologists Angela Legg and Kate Sweeny. You can read their full paper here and a good summary here. Their work builds on this study by Linda Marshall and Robert Kidd.
Pinkcast 2.8: Another trick for dealing with jerks
LINKS AND FURTHER READING: Bob’s book is The A**hole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt. (Buy it at Amazon, BN.com, IndieBound, or 800CEOREAD.) You can find even more weasel-avoidance tips in this article from the Stanford School of Engineering.