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But those who have already developed their thinking through writing can keep the focus on what is interesting for them at the moment and accumulate substantial material just by doing what they most feel like doing. The material will cluster around the questions they returned to most often, so they don’t risk too far of a departure from their
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Key insight: Just a handful of the right people paying attention to your work can transform your career security and opportunities.
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Together with the fact that every task is accompanied by writing, which in itself requires undistracted attention, the slip-box can become a haven for our restless minds.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Who has the right answers but I ignore because they’re not articulate?
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
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Finally, the fifth rule is to choose immeasurable rewards over measurable ones. Seeing numerical scores increase is satisfying in the short term, but the most valuable things in life — freedom, meaning, love — can’t be quantified.
Gurwinder • Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
if a random thought arises, acknowledge the thought and then simply let it go by gently bringing your attention back to the flow of your breath.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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proper goal setting requires three sets of goals: massively transformative, high and hard, and clear—for three different timescales. MTPs last a lifetime; high, hard goals can take years; clear goals are accomplished one minute at a time. But it also means knowing which goal to focus on when. Across the shorter timescales of the moment, attention
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And you will run through career change scenarios and try to play out the implications to their logical, full conclusion. That, too, is…
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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Those steps are called retrieval and reconsolidation, respectively.