The 2 AM Principle

They create reasons to have new experiences rather than focus on why they can’t. For whatever reason, it seems that some people feel like they don’t deserve it, or believe that it’s unattainable for them.

If you are feeling nervous, good. If you are getting butterflies in your stomach, I’m proud of you. You have a good challenge that is worth spending your time on. If your heart rate doesn’t increase, then the challenge is too easy. If you want to live an interesting life, you should accept challenges you don’t know how to complete. That is where th

The importance of a new location is clear; the brain activates areas dedicated that induce exploration, learning, and reward when the environment is new and novel. These areas are not activated in the same way when you are in a familiar environment and experience.

The key is always in creating information gaps that are large enough to create interest but small enough to be crossed.

But for whatever reason, very few people focus on being interesting, and even fewer people are empathetic enough to understand another person’s situation.

If we want motivation and the desire for risk, it is as easy as viewing fast-paced content that will encourage us to think faster.

book examining the science of how our social networks affect us.4 They found that everything from obesity to happiness stems from and is passed through our networks. The importance of this lesson is that an exceptional life is about curating the people around you. Most people end up with friends based on proximity and coincidence. They went to the

Most of us know this to some degree. If we spend time with athletes we tend to get fit; if we spend time with criminals, it is only a matter of time before we break the law ourselves. In 2009, James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis published a

“The quality of our lives is defined by the people we surround ourselves with and the conversations we have with them.”