Trying too hard in a social setting makes it harder to connect authentically with someone else.

There’s an easier alternative. We can establish upper and lower bounds.

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

“To maximize gains from long-term practice,” the study’s lead author, K. Anders Ericsson, concluded, “individuals must avoid exhaustion and must limit practice to an amount from which they can completely recover on a daily or weekly basis.”

Effortless Inversion means looking at problems from the opposite perspective. It means asking, “What if this could be easy?” It means learning to solve problems from a state of focus, clarity, and calm. It means getting good at getting things done by putting in less effort.

conditions, your brain works at incredible speeds. But

“One must invert, always invert.”

Being asked to do X isn’t a good enough reason to do Y.

turned off digital devices an hour before bed, and