Supritha S
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Supritha S
If you feel tempted to live a more polymathic life, Ahmed suggests that you can use your time more efficiently to make space for multiple interests.
David Robson • Why Some People Are Impossibly Talented
The Counterintuitive Approach to Finding Happiness: Do the Painful Things First
James Clearjamesclear.com
Habits and
The lizard is a physical part of your brain, the pre-historic lump near the brain stem that is responsible for fear and rage and reproductive drive. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because her lizard brain told her to.
Seth Godin • Quieting the lizard brain
We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to come to market, but we sandbag the shipping schedule. We say we want to be thin but we eat too much. We say we want to be smart but we skip class or don’t read that book the boss lent us.
Seth Godin • Quieting the lizard brain
If you're anything like me, you want to get to the end of your life and remember it as being joyful and happy. Given what we know about behavioral psychology, we are more likely to remember our lives as happy if they improve over time.
jamesclear.com • The Counterintuitive Approach to Finding Happiness: Do the Painful Things First
Always be open to the possibility that your truth has changed (on how you most profoundly want to use the rest of your life, for example) and that you haven’t taken the time to slow down enough to acknowledge that. Slow down and reflect upon that question soon. "How do I most profoundly want to use the rest of my life?" Create Miracles! Chris
... See moreIn order to reach this state of peak performance, however, you not only need to work on challenges at the right degree of difficulty, but also measure your immediate progress. As psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains, one of the keys to reaching a flow state is that “you get immediate feedback about how you are doing at each step.”
James Clear • The Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay Motivated in Life and Business
Nobody wakes up feeling great and ready to get after it every day. The work is accepting your feelings and taking them along for the ride. It requires equal parts grace and grit, self-discipline and self-compassion.
Keep showing up.
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