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- Concentrate When you meet someone with the same name as you, do you remember their name? Yes, because you are interested in that name, you always hear it, and your attention is at a peak.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
The best way to talk yourself up is to remind yourself of stuff you know is true. If there have been times when you’ve faced similar challenges and succeeded, that’s where to start. Actual information trumps New Age aspiration every time.
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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Those steps are called retrieval and reconsolidation, respectively.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
How to Create Instant Authority with Your Audience
Marco Polo, a Venetian explorer born in 1254, is famous for being the first to explore the Silk Road to China. At least, that’s how he is remembered.
There is only one small problem: he wasn’t an explorer at all. Like all good Venetians of the time, he was a merchant.
Long before Marco Polo, plenty
... See morenathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
Until we unlearn, what to Holmes is effortless couldn’t be more effortful to our Watson selves. We must stop Watson at every point and ask instead the opinion of Holmes. But as we practice this more and more, as we force ourselves to observe, to imagine, to deduce over and over and over—and to do it even in those circumstances where it may seem
... See moreMaria Konnikova • Mastermind
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Sherlock Holmes has illustrated the four elements most likely to allow us to do just that: selectivity, objectivity, inclusivity, and engagement.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
statistical comparisons may be made strictly in terms of the interior variation in the data,
Stephen M. Stigler • The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
Ninth, because the Shah didn’t have riot police, he frequently deployed the army to stop demonstrations, but the army was not prepared for that, and sometimes demonstrators were killed. This fired people up against the regime, but Pahlavi didn’t want to overuse force. The result was a deployment of the army who couldn’t use its weapons to quell
... See moreTomas Pueyo • Why Did Israel Strike Iran Now?
I want you to take away two things from this:
- Being someone who is actively pursuing their dreams and sharing the journey puts you in rarefied air. You will stand out, as that’s just 1% of people.
- The gap between the last two categories—those who do things and those who do things and share —is actually very small. The simple step of documenting what