The Drop №. 93 with Chase Hobby

VRB’s weekly list of things to read, watch, listen to, and try that have helped us live better and be better. Brought to you this week by Chase Hobby.

Tips for Sticking to your New Year's Resolutions

Listen to Expert Tips for Sticking to your New Year’s Resolutions. At this point, New Year's Day feels like a distant memory. Are you still on top of your intentions or have you fallen off? It takes 21 days for a new behavior to become a habit so here's 21 minutes of insight and expertise on how you can set yourself up for success and achieve your desired resolutions.

Santana at Woodstock

Watch Santana play Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock in 1969. One of the highlights of Woodstock, Soul Sacrifics is an incredible demonstration of what happens when individual mastery meets a group dynamic that's in the zone. Also, for what it's worth, Carlos Santana played the whole set after learning Jerry Garcia dosed him with psychedelics without his knowledge. So there's that.

Decrease stress, Increase productivity

Read this article about how tracking stress at work can improve productivity. The author I needed a simple, tangible system to figure out how work exacerbated her anxiety, and better ways to reduce the stress, so she could be more productive—and healthier. The crucial lesson: you can’t always prepare for the worst days, but you can plan for them.

Practical Personality Test

Try this practical personality test. PrinciplesYou was produced by two of the most prolific minds out there,Ray Dalio and Adam Grant. The free online test is long - it took me 20 minutes to complete - but worth it. It then supplies you with a group of archetypes, and judging by the results of all my family and friends who took it, it’s pretty accurate. But the real joy is in sharing your results with others. The site will offer advice to both sides of how they might improve their communication given the two archetypes. This is actually useful. And fun.