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Quieting the lizard brain
why do people keep doing such stupid things? Why do they fail to control themselves and continue to do what they know is not good for them? I, for one, can easily muster the willpower to ignore all the desserts on the menu. But if dessert is placed on the table, I can’t resist it. I can resolve to focus on a task and not get up until it is done, ye
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Happiness Hypothesis
These three motives stem from the most basic and ancient parts of our brains — they are what promises a creature its best chance of survival and prosperity. They tend to trump everything else, and the behavior it creates is often so unconscious that we don’t realize quite what it is we’re after. Logic can’t compete with these drives, not without so... See more
David Cain • What you want is never a thing
don’t control your impulses, if you lose your self-control, you may be the very source of the disaster you so fear. It has happened to smarter and more powerful and more successful people. It can happen to us too.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The meaning of life is something like: To trade the constraints imposed upon you by others, for constraints you impose upon yourself. If you fail to design your own choice architecture, one will be assigned to you. The brain loves efficiency; the brain wants to preserve bandwidth; but the brain is agnostic as to who installs the routines. When ever
... See moreRichard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
When it comes to our actions, disorder and distraction are death. The unordered mind loses track of what’s in front of it—what matters—and gets distracted by thoughts of the future. The process is order, it keeps our perceptions in check and our actions in sync.