Cognitive Reprogramming
A long-term project learning practices in using physical micro actions, thoughts and verbal cues to activate desired mental and emotional states on demand.
Cognitive Reprogramming
A long-term project learning practices in using physical micro actions, thoughts and verbal cues to activate desired mental and emotional states on demand.
Zátopek never wanted to become a runner. When the management at the shoe factory where he was working elected him for a local race, he tried to refuse. Zátopek told them he was unfit, that he had no interest, that he’d never run in a competition. But he competed anyway and came in second out of 100 contestants. Zátopek saw a brighter future for
... See more1. We take notes to remember surprising things which don't match with our current assumptions or understanding of a concept or a thing. This is how we learn and update our mental model.
2. To remember questions or things we completely didn't understand and help us pursue that information and try to find answers to them.
3. To find connections to what we already know, like how is this related to something else that I have already remembered or thought about? This helps develop our understanding to become stronger and introduce more novelties, like more ideas.
4. To finally make a decision on what we have learned and act on it to help us pursue our objectives and goals.



And I wanted her to let me vent. Well, it turns out the research shows that venting does not work. That venting does nothing but cement the vision that you have of people, the beliefs that you have about people. It just makes them more vivid. So venting, we know, does not work, even though that's kind of the conventional advice.
So you have to blow
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