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The Crime Your Brain Commits Against You
The more deeply a thought or action is tied to your identity, the more difficult it is to change it.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We’re all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The brain of man conserves programming space by being reluctant to change, which is a form of inconsistency avoidance. We see this in all human habits, constructive and destructive. Few people can list a lot of bad habits that they have eliminated, and some people cannot identify even one of these. Instead, practically everyone has a great many bad
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"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See more
"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See more
Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
When you have repeated a story to yourself for years, it is easy to slide into these mental grooves and accept them as a fact.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller
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Then the brain enters a state that's valuable to understand for anyone interested in human conflict and drama. From being model-builders we become model defenders. Now that the flawed self with its flawed model of the world has been constructed, the brain starts to protect it. When we encounter evidence that it might be