Less Phone, More Nature: 34 Resolutions For a Better 2018

One of my favorite investment writers, Jason Zweig, who writes The Intelligent Investor column for The Wall Street Journal, Shares his suggestions for New Year's resolutions (12/29/17). Zweig advises: "Make all your resolutions in public. The fear of social pressure, whether it materializes or not, will help you keep your word, since you are pledging not just to yourself but to others."
Some of my favorites:

• Listening to what someone else is saying without hearing what you already think is one of the hardest challenges for the human mind. When you listen, listen as if your life depends on it. Otherwise, you’ll just hear your own words coming out of someone else’s mouth.
• Be more judgmental about ideas and less judgmental about people.
• If you think you’re the smartest person in the room, you must not have talked to everybody in the room yet.
• Never try to get other people to change their minds without first trying to understand why they think the way they do. Never do that without being open to the possibility that the mind that might need to change the most could be your own.
• Try to take your work more seriously, and yourself less seriously. The more seriously you take your work, the easier it will become to take yourself less seriously; the constant reminders of your ignorance should never cease to amaze you.
• Tweet less; read more.
• Talk less; listen more.

Especially the last two!

Read the full list at: http://on.wsj.com/2lsq4Vt