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Greatness Within You
Your best self already resides inside you.
Just like Michelangelo chipped the slab of marble to bring out the piece of art hidden within, you need to chip away everything that isn't t...
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Back To Being Amazing
You were amazing when you were a kid, but the disappointments and negativity of the world began to blind you from your greatness, stifling and burying it in the last few decades.
Even if now ...
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Impatience
When you want to learn skills and do good work, impatience is one of your biggest enemies.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting things to happen fast. In fact, that’s one of the main rea...
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Overnight success doesn’t exist
Big splashes don’t happen. We have to remind ourselves of that whenever we’re impatient.
When you’re trying to achieve your goals, improve yourself, and live a better life, there are moments you want to speed things up. It happens to every ambitious person. People who never do anything with their lives don’t suffer from this.
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Self Reliance
If you’re waiting for someone to give you the right training to change your job or do something radically different in life you will wait forever.
It’s up to you to train yourself. I...
Learning to Learn
Learning is not a rigidly formal system of precisely labeled steps.
Learning is messy. It’s trial and error. It’s failing and then failing again and then slowly figuring it out.
Give Up Magical Beliefs
You can’t borrow someone’s motivation. No matter how many books you read or chants you do you won’t become more motivated.
Motivation comes from inside. It comes from you and nowhere else.
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What Creativity Does
Creative acts can grow new neural connections, reduce depression and isolation, enhance cognitive skills, and increase emotional fulfillment.
There are many well-known creative activit...
Triggering the Creative Process
- Change one element in an activity you do repeatedly. This will require you to learn something new and that will trigger the creative process.
- Add something new to a routine. For example, when watching your favorite TV drama, pause it every ten or so minutes, and predict what will happen when you resume watching.
- Engage in an activity that constantly changes.
- Begin a new activity. The best example is learning a new language. Everything is fresh: the meaning of words, the syntax, and pronunciation.
The End Products
The purpose of creative activities for brain health is not to produce a sellable or even a laudable product. These activities creates new neural connections that can preserve your cognitive ability or at least slow down its deterioration.
Also, just as muscle strength takes time to develop after years of idleness, so does improved memory and better reasoning abilities.