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4 Self-Improvement Myths That May Be Holding You Back
Mimicry and comparisons
Self-improvement doesn't come from mimicry and comparing ourselves with others.
Focus on getting better than you were yesterday and living up to your own potential and aspirations, not somebody else’s.
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Peak performance
You should expect some variability in your performance. Your path is not going to be linear.
Mimicry and comparisons
Self-improvement doesn't come from mimicry and comparing ourselves with others.
Focus on getting better than you were yesterday and living up to your own potential and aspirations, not somebody else’s.
Singular grand strategies
They don't work, because there is no one single way for anybody to improve.
Singular grand strategies seldom work because they don’t account for exigencies that emerge along the way. Adaptability is also important in the path to self-growth.
Setting goals
Goal setting sometimes inhibits self-improvement: the amount of thinking you put into something can decrease the amount of time you spend doing it.
Once you begin to work toward your goals, focus on what brings you joy about the activity itself.
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Re-reading and highlighting
Both of these study strategies are relatively ineffective. Passively reading the same text over and over again won’t do much for recall unless it’s spaced out over time.
Different learning styles
Systematic studies of learning styles have consistently found no evidence or very weak evidence to support the idea that matching the material to a student’s learning style is more effective.
Right or left-brained
There is no conclusive evidence that people preferentially use the left or right hemisphere.
Certain functions are processed more by one region of the brain than others, and this is known as lateralization. But we all use our entire brain equally.
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5 hours of sleep is enough
Habitual sleep deprivation is associated with diverse and far-reaching health effects and none of them is good.
Between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night are recommended. You can get used to l...
Watching Television before bed
Cellphones, tablets, and all kinds of personal electronics are not a good idea when you’re getting ready for bed.
Researchers have increasingly focused on “blue light” emitted by screens and its effect on sleep and negative sleep-related health outcomes.
It doesn’t matter when you sleep
Our bodies tend to follow a natural rhythm of wakefulness and sleep that is attuned to sunrise and sunset for a reason.
While some missed sleep here and there isn’t necessarily a big deal, shifting your sleep schedule long term isn’t healthy.
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Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day
Everyone has a different requirement for water. Temperature, humidity, size, age, gender and activity have an influence on your fluid needs.
Instead, drink when you are thirsty.
Eggs Harm Your Heart
Eggs have a lot of cholesterol compared to other foods. Although cholesterol in the blood is strongly related to heart disease, eating cholesterol is weakly associated with raising the cholesterol levels in your blood.
Eggs have other heart-protecting properties and eating it probably won't harm your heart.
Cancer or Alzheimer’s From Antiperspirant
- A chain email in the 1990s was responsible for the false belief that antiperspirant was raising the risk of breast cancer.
- When researchers found higher ratios of aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, aluminum in antiperspirant was suspect. But it seems aluminum in antiperspirant is hardly absorbed by your skin.
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