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Your attention span isn’t fixed. It increases with practice.
Evidence: After 20min sessions solving cognitively challenging problems (10-20hrs total), students show significant gains in sustained focus and test scores.
Like physical stamina, mental stamina requires exercise. https://t.co/RTnfnMCKG3
By the way, the “correct” response to any situation is the most skillful one available according to current capacity. And that fluctuates a lot. It’s fine.
Sara Bollmanx.comBoy, turns out you really probably do need to cultivate a strong sense of self before you can no-self properly.
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When you feel calm and regulated and in that state of ventral vagal, something really cool happens.
Self-criticism fades.
Why? Because compassion and self-judgment can't coexist.
Stephen Porges (theorist behind Polyvagal Theory) says that when you're in a state of fight or flight, it's impossible to enter the portal of compassion, because that ... See more
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