Is a simple and effective thing to do if you want to stick with a habit for good. No matter the format (calendar, journal, app), it provides immediate evidence whether you are making progress or need to change course.

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It creates a visual cue that can remind you to act.
It is motivating to see the progress you are making. You don't want to break your streak.
It feels satisfying to record your success in the moment.

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Manual tracking should be limited to your most important habits.
Record each measurement immediately after the habit occurs.

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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing one day in keeping a habit is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.

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It means using technology with more intention and purpose.

It's a “philosophy of technology use” rooted in reclaiming control and intention back from the devices and platforms that have hijacked it.

You figure out what's valuable to you. And then you happily miss out on everything else.

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It promtes the basic idea that technological innovations can bring value and convenience into your life.

It just looks at the positives. And it's view is more is better than less, because more things that bring you benefits means more total benefits.

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If you want to maximize the amount of value you feel in your life, you want to put as much of your time and effort as possible into the small number of things to give you huge rewards.

When you think about it that way, fear of missing out looks like, just mathematically speaking, a really bad strategy.

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... is a key life skill, an inherently interpersonal activity that requires a good understanding of human psyche, and it is vital to your success.

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Judgement: Evaluate the content of the available options for its fairness.
Choice: Determine which available option is preferred.

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Instead of making one single offer, try offering 3 possible scenarios:

Something that works for you but can be very expensive for the other party. A win-lose.
The red herring. Something that is a lose-lose for both parties. An option through which no one wins.
Something that is a middle ground and a win-win for both.

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The value of an offer is influenced by the first realistic number that enters the conversation.

Once this number—or anchor—is set, other judgements are made by adjusting away from that number as the reference point.

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Scenario: You've reached a verbal agreement, but in negotiating the final terms, the deal gets questioned. \"We're not really sure that this is the right thing for us to do at this time.\"

The best strategy is probe further to see whether there's a real problem or whether you're just being yanked around.

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Scenario: Working with a prospect to craft a deal and suddenly the customer demands something that makes no business sense. \"We'll need you to stop doing business with our competitors if you're doing business with us.\"

Your best strategy is to call the customer's bluff.

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Scenario: You're at the point of signing the contracts,when the prospect demands a steep discount. Example: \"My boss says that if don't drop the price 25 percent, the deal is off.\"
The worst thing at this point is to give the discount, because then you've told the prospect you can't be trusted to offer the best deal.

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Scenario: The sales opportunity is proceeding apace when suddenly all the important meetings are pushed way out. \"I can't meet next Friday to discuss this; how about next month?\"
Your best strategy is to surface some negative consequences of delaying the sale.

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Like all games, there are skills to learn and rules to follow.

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Emotion predicts action: A negotiator wants to know what you're thinking and will carefully track your emotion for clues. Choreographed emotions will call your opponent's bluff.
The power of anger: For the opponent to concede to your demands, rising anger is more effective than static anger and rising anger is more effective than either rising or static happiness.
A rising surge of anger elicits fear of possible escalation into conflict and fear of no deal at all, so the opponent wants to cut losses by giving in. But you are in trouble if you're negotiating on values, not goods or if there's a power imbalance.
Taking action. Though anger studies are useful, caution is advised. The trick is to feign displeasure without showing aggression or disrespect.

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The most successful negotiators don't entertain dirty tricks in negotiation but instead strive to reach agreements that are satisfactory to both parties.

But if you find yourself on the receiving end of something that doesn't feel quite right, provided you recognise what's happening, you can address the situation and swiftly bring it back to a better place.

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Used on negotiators who travel long distances: to start meetings while the negotiator's concentration is impeded due to jet lag or fatigue. Jet lag seriously impairs judgement.

Tip for the negotiator: Travel early and leave time for recuperation before meeting the other party. Where you suspect your hosts like to be hospitable, keep news of your early arrival quiet.

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It's important to recognize when tactics are being used in an attempt to best you in a negotiation.

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Left at the altar - This tactic often yields 11th-hour concessions.
Making balloon futures - A service is forecasted to be worth more before it's performed.
Calling a higher authority.
Crunch time - Where the other party applies pressure.
Bring in the dancer - Distracts by long talks without saying anything substantive to the issue at hand.
Re-trading the deal - Other party tries to reopen points from a closed agreement.
Huntley and Brinkley - Two people for the other party team up against you at the same time.
Turning Soviet - Your side is not considered in the deal.
The walkout - Deliberately walking out of a negotiation to show disinterest.
Roaring brains - People that talk a lot with no real experience in a particular area.

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A dirty trick often used against people visiting other cultures.

The approach of \"but we always do it this way over here\" can be difficult to counter if you're not prepared for it.

Tip for the negotiator: If you suspect this approach in advance, have with you a local expert who knows the customs.

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This dirty trick is frequently used to gain additional concessions from the unwary when the agreement appears to be in sight.

Giveaway phrases to look out for: “I think we’ve nearly got a deal, if we can just agree on this last item I think we’re there...”

Tip for the negotiator: Draw up an agenda of all the issues to be discussed early in the negotiation, so that additional ones can’t be introduced at a later stage.

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This is an attempt to gain concessions using time pressure.

In its simplest form the trick involves setting a deadline by which time the agreement must be signed, or the deal is off.

Tip for the negotiator: Keep arrangements flexible and build time around your negotiation. Time pressure may even work in your favour if you keep arrangements to yourself until the deadline has arrived.

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This is based on the assumption that the more a negotiator has invested in trying to reach an agreement, the less willing they will be to abandon the negotiation.

Tip for the negotiator: Write-off the previous investment. It then has no significant influence on current decisions.

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The perpetrator attempts to instil panic into the negotiator by changing from a position of enthusiasm with the negotiation to suddenly showing no reaction.

Tip for the negotiator: Being aware of this tactic allows you to remain calm. To counter their silence, and to avoid giving anything away, ask questions about their position. This way you gain information and in doing so, take back power.

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A tactic sometimes used when the other negotiator is losing ground.

Tip for the negotiator: Skilled negotiators deal with this by:

checking their understanding with the other side to ensure both parties hove the same view
summarising to confirm agreement on what has been discussed.
This requires patience and listening skills, but is a very effective way of refocusing on the real issues.

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A tactic to imply a lack of decision-making authority. The negotiator is quite happy to accept concessions made by the other party but qualifies any concessions asked for by saying, \"I'll have to check this out with my boss, as this demand exceeds my mandate\".

Tip for the negotiator: At the outset, check the other party has the authority to make a deal. If not, either match your authority to theirs

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A tactic sometimes used when the negotiation is not going the way the other party would like.

The new negotiator often denies knowledge of concessions their company has made or claims the previous negotiator had no mandate to make them. At the same time, you are held to the concessions you have made.

Tip for the negotiator: Counter this by either insisting that previous agreements are honoured or by starting negotiations again from scratch. In some circumstances, it may be in your interests to also change negotiators.

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This is one of the most commonly used dirty tricks in negotiation. People using this tactic often appear reluctant to release details of a so called competitor offer or other issue on ethical grounds.

Tip for the negotiator: Even though the other party will probably refuse to release details, you can check the credibility of the competitive offer by asking details such as: \"What sort of operator training are they offering?\" or \"What response time do they guarantee?\"

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Listening to music with lyrics is distracting for most people. It’s best to avoid it when working on tasks that require focus or the learning of new information.
Listening to music with lyrics may help people working on repetitive or mundane tasks.
Classical or rock music allows people to identify numbers more quickly and accurately.
Ambient noise, or ambient music, at about 70 decibels can be the best kind of music for work productivity. But increasing it over 85 decibels hurts creativity.
Searching for the right artist can detract from workplace productivity but, once you know what works for you, music can become a tool for near-instant concentration.

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Music has a real impact on human emotions and perception. Music activates different areas of the brain in different people, but there are general brain and mood patterns revealed by music research.

For the most part, research suggests that listening to music can improve your efficiency, creativity and happiness in terms of work-related tasks.

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The cue triggers a craving, which motivates a response, which provides a reward, which satisfies the craving and, ultimately, becomes associated with the cue.

Together, these four steps form a neurological feedback loop—cue, craving, response, reward; cue, craving, response, reward—that ultimately allows you to create automatic habits.

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Cue 1: Time - Most common way to trigger a new habit
Cue 2: Location - Most powerful driver of mindless habits and also the least recognized
Cue 3: Preceding Event - Many habits are a response to something else that happens in your life
Cue 4: Emotional State - emotional state is a common cue for bad habits
Cue 5: Other People - people you surround yourself with can play a role in your habits and behaviors.

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This philosophy is guided by the idea that we should be in control over what kinds of media we consume, not have our habits dictated to us by technology.

This applies to the office as well as to the home: Having deep work at the office, but digital addictions at home, is hardly a victory.

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Instead of defaulting into the low-quality obsessions that leave us wondering where the time has gone, we should cultivate high-quality hobbies that lead to lasting satisfaction.

Re-evaluate your relationship to technology:

First allow for a period of abstinence.
Follow this by a selective re-introduction of only those tools and technologies that pass a more rigorous cost-benefit analysis than you typically impose.

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They go hand-in-hand.

Addiction seems to be the inevitable consequence of our culturally-created environment changing faster than our biologically-hardwired brains.

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To be a digital minimalist means you accept the idea that new communication technologies have the potential to massively improve your life, but also recognize that realizing this potential is hard work.","image":null,"imagePosition":2,"saved":null,"subtitle":null,"stashes":null,"totalSaves":758,"theme":null,"title":"The Distraction of Digital Technology","isDraft":false,"url":null,"urlTitle":null,"user":150,"isFetching":false,"numberOfReads":null,"timeToRead":10.2},"9893":{"categoriesById":[1661],"id":9893,"articleId":1675,"authorName":null,"content":"

We spend all day staring at screens, read books on Kindles or iPads, and come home to relax by watching a movie or TV.

Digital technologies lump together the good with the bad.

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As Cal Newport defines it, Digital minimalism is:

“A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.”

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Choice and intention. You’re still using technology, but only what you want and only in ways that connect to your values.
Optimizing the tools you use. What you allow into your life needs to work for you. This means separating the good from the bad.
Accepting you won’t be everywhere all the time. Tech companies survive on FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). But digital minimalists are happy to miss out on the things they know don’t bring value to their lives.

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Set aside a 30-day period during which you will take a break from optional technologies in your life. Work email is not optional. Twitter probably is.
During this break, explore and rediscover activities and behaviors you find satisfying and meaningful.
And after the 30 days are up, reintroduce the optional technologies you want back into your life.
Determine the value it brings you and how specifically you can use it to maximize that value.
Bing optional technologies back by first creating rules on how exactly you’ll use them and when.

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Ways to rediscover non-digital activities you love that will support your newfound digital autonomy.

Spend Time Alone without your digital technology. Try leaving your phone at home while you go for a walk, journaling, or simply spending more time alone.
Don’t Click Like or allow yourself to be always available.
Reclaim Leisure. One of the reasons we lean so heavily on digital technologies is that we’ve lost our hobbies and leisure activities.
Join the Attention Resistance. Reduce the number of entry points. Try deleting social media off your phone or treat it like a professional task—something you do as needed and not more.

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Digital minimalism is a \"philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimised activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.\" - Cal Newport

Use technology to \"support\" your personal goals, rather than letting it \"use\" you.

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Clutter is costly. Digital minimalists recognise that cluttering their time and attention with too many devices, apps, and services creates an overall negative cost that can swamp the small benefits that each individual item provides in isolation.
Optimisation is important.To truly extract the full potential benefit of a technology, it’s necessary to think carefully about how you’ll use it.
Intentionality is satisfying. Digital minimalists derive significant satisfaction from their general commitment to being more intentional about how they engage with new technologies.

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\"The underlying behaviours we hope to fix are ingrained in our culture, and […] they’re backed by powerful psychological forces that empower our base instincts. To re-establish control, we need to move beyond tweaks and instead rebuild our relationship with technology from scratch, using our deeply held values as a foundation.\" - Cal Newport

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Put aside a 30-day period during which you will take a break from optional technologies in your life.
During this 30-day break, explore and rediscover activities and behaviours that you find satisfying and meaningful.
At the end of the break, reintroduce optional technologies into your life, starting from a blank slate. For each technology you reintroduce, determine what value it serves in your life.

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Schedule your internet and email use. To train yourself, try waiting five minutes after a buzz, beep, or ding before reaching for your device. Then increase this to 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and so on.
Develop a ranking system for your email. Sort into categories like (a) important and urgent, (b) important but not urgent, and (c) neither urgent nor important.
Give yourself clear “online hours.” Set an alarm for when you’ll shut down every night.

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“Success” isn’t just having lots of money.

Success is continuously improving who you are, how you live, how you serve, and how you relate.

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Start the day with your #1 priority.

Getting up early isn’t enough. You need to put first things first. When you put your top priorities first, then you ensure they make it into the bucket of your day. After your main priorities have been completed, the rest will fill the gaps.

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Most people have a growth mindset about the learning style they are comfortable with: if you like math and learn in analytical ways, you probably believe you can get better at math and seek opportunities to do so.
Most people have a fixed mindset about the learning styles that aren't comfortable with: if you don’t like writing, you probably believe you can’t get better at it.

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Think about what it is you want, and ask yourself this simple question:

What about ___________ is important to me?

Then put your answer into the same question. It’s good to go at least 7-questions deep into this exercise.

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You get in life what you expect you will. This theory is based on 3 things:

How bad you want something
How much you believe you can actually have/do what you want
Your belief that the means by which you seek your goal will actually bring about the desired result

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Mastery comes from embracing difficult emotions. You’ll face difficult emotions because, in order to gain true mastery, you must understand all sides of something.

You need to be able to integrate what you know with tons of new information and to be able to quickly connect your understanding with things from seemingly disconnected domains.

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Why you should give to others:

You genuinely want to help other people.
You believe in humanity.

Why you shouldn't give to others:

Don't give to boast.
Don’t give to put others in debt to you.
Don’t give to get ahead.
Don’t give to make others feel inferior.

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\"The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person’s ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.”

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People are getting more used to having everything at their fingertips
People are getting used to having their needs met quickly, and cheap
People are also lowering their standards for the quality of services they are getting (and information they are consuming), because so much stuff is now available for free

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The success of your morning begins the night before.

All you have to do is spend a few minutes making FIRM decisions about what you’ll do when you first wake up. You don’t need a huge to-do list. You just need to know the FIRST thing you’re going to do.

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Take a minute or two to sit in a comfortable position and breathe deeply into your stomach.

Let your body calm down before you approach your work. You’ll find it really helps you concentrate.

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Take the time to identify what deserves your focus for the year, for the month, for the week, and for the day. Then look at your calendar and block time dedicated to focus.

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If you need to focus, log out of email and social media. Log out for 30 minutes either at the beginning of the day or for a period in the afternoon. You won’t believe how much you can get done when you’re not always interrupting yourself to return emails.

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It helps you focus on the day. While caffeine doesn’t improve learning or memory performance, Astrid Nehlig found it does increase physiological arousal, which makes you less apt to be distracted and better able to pay attention during a demanding task.

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If it’s too hot or too cool in your work environment, it could impact your focus.

A study from Cornell University found that workers are most productive and make fewer errors in an environment that is somewhere between 68 and 77 degrees.

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Too much background noise can be very distracting. According to some studies, having music playing helps you focus on your own thoughts. The catch? You have to like the song.

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A study found that participants who were given short breaks during a 50-minute task performed better than those who worked straight through.

The study examines a phenomenon called “vigilance decrement,” or losing focus over time. Taking a short break in the middle of a long task reenergizes the brain.

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If you’re sitting in on a long meeting or conference, improve your focus–and your artistic skills–by doodling.

Doodling aids in cognitive performance and recollection.

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Meditation significantly lowers depression, stress, and anxiety – the key reasons for a restless mind.

Elimination of these factors greatly helps in improving concentration, thus increasing your productivity level.

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Puzzle games and crosswords are both good mind stimulators and can improve your brain power, confidence, and self-esteem.

Their inherent attractiveness lies in the fact they are challenging. Solving puzzles makes your brain work continuously, thus making you push the limits of your intellect.

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A hobby that you can pursue in a relaxed and non-competitive environment opens up the creative windows of your mind.

Try something like embroidery instead of the usual paintings and water-color drawings.

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The benefits of learning new languages are multifold – from enhancing communication skills in different languages to giving perception and overall smartness a boost and preventing dementia.

Additionally, knowledge of different languages helps significantly in the professional field by expanding and diversifying your career options.

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Although it may sound a little awkward, solo traveling brings several benefits:

uplifting your confidence level
letting you enjoy quality “Me Time”
making you a better trip planner
helping you become a better observer.

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Make a list of the things you want to do. It doesn’t matter whether it comprises big or small things.

Rather, it’s the presence of a target that matters. Work through the list regularly and give your best shot to achieve your goals.

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Cooking provides 3 main benefits:

A great pastime
Good health
Considerable savings with respect to finances.

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Positive self pep-talk can turn out to be a great self-booster.

A self-talk session should have constructive critiques, compliments, sharing of everyday experiences, achievements, repeating positive comments received from worthy people and most importantly, boosting your own morale.

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Helping others, especially the less fortunate ones, is a great way to contribute and to make yourself feel happy and worthy.

You can take small steps and do it on your own, like offering food, clothes, or education to a few. Or, you can volunteer for a community cause like cleaning up the neighborhood.

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Playing an instrument not only takes you to a different world but improves fine-motor skills, eye-hand coordination, and cognitive development, apart from boosting your IQ.

You may even opt for dancing, which is a significantly low-cost hobby that helps you to enjoy your pastime and even stay fit in the process.

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Relying on tech to “do it for you” can make us mentally lazy.

Research by University College London into the brains of trainee taxi drivers showed that those who had passed the famous “Knowledge” test to learn routes across the city’s 25,000 streets and thousands of places of interest had a greater volume of grey matter in their posterior hippocampus — the nerve cells in the brain where processing takes place — than when they started.

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Speaking more than two languages has a protective effect on memory in seniors who practice foreign languages over their lifetime or at the time of the study.

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They tend to have ripple effects which change your behavior in unexpected ways.

The power of a keystone habit draws from its ability to set off a chain reaction that causes other patterns to change as well.

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Exercising regularly is for many people a keystone habit because when they do it, they also make healthier eating and life choices and procrastinate less.

Other keystone habits include: meditation, reading, writing and socialising. They provide a nice foundation for a healthy life in all domains

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Look for behaviors that have a ripple effect, and change your other behaviors without extra effort.

Also, pay attention to how you see yourself when you do a particular habit: Does it change your self-image? Do you feel better when you think of yourself as a person?

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To make any habit stick in the long-term (keystone or not), do it regularly.

The more often you do the habit, the more you'll get used to it, and eventually, you'll do it without thinking—the definition of a habit.

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It helps to know how often you’re succeeding (or not). Use whatever works for you: pen and paper of habit tracking apps.

A simple way to keep track of your progress is to mark each day you complete your habit on a calendar.

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Do the minimum you can and be consistent in your behavior.

To create a new habit, you must first simplify the behavior. A good tiny behavior is easy to do — and fast.

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Planning ahead is the trick to not getting thrown off by unfamiliar situations.

Because there are so many variables that can affect our ability to stick with new behaviors, planning ahead is the best way to build up the consistency we need for the habit to stick.

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Start working toward your goals. Don't just wait around for someone or something outside yourself to pick you up and carry you forward.

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When trying to explain complex information to an audience, the first task is to get the content of what you're saying right.

How we communicate is also crucial. When someone is speaking, most of the information we receive comes through their body language, enthusiasm and tone of voice. It's our overall experience of the speaker that counts.

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Try not to use technical language. If you do, make sure it is absolutely necessary in order to help the audience understand or appreciate your point – and ensure that you explain the word or term immediately afterwards.

Keep your words as simple and clear as possible, and use real-life examples and illustrations where possible. But don’t patronize your audience.

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If you look alert but relaxed, your audience will mirror this and feel the same way. Stand up straight, but relax any tension or stiffness in your body.

It’s a good idea to gesture with your hands in such a way that helps to make clear what you are explaining – but only do this if it feels natural, and try not to wave your arms around unnecessarily.

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It is important to celebrate your own uniqueness and use your own way of communicating. Think about how you would tell your friends an exciting thing that happened to you today, and what gestures you would naturally use.

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Pacing or moving around as you talk can sometimes add to the excitement of the story, but it can also be distracting.

It is a good idea to video yourself to see if there are any things you are doing that are distracting or give away your nerves. Fidgeting, fiddling, shifting your weight, swaying or playing with a pen are classic examples of this.

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One of the most important areas of body language is eye contact. This can really help an audience feel immersed in the story, but can also help you, as a presenter, to feel less nervous.

A few seconds of eye contact with individual audience members will actually help to calm your nerves.

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If you can get an audience to really 'see' what you’re trying to explain, they will not only be able to understand it better, but they will also remember it.

Analogies and metaphors work really well, especially if there are no real-life examples to draw on.

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Think of your talk as a series of self-contained mini-talks, then if one part goes wrong, gets forgotten, or simply doesn’t feel like it’s working on the day, just jump to the next part – you can always go back to it later.

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Nerves are a perfectly normal phenomenon and are a very useful way of making sure that you are fully energized, revved up, and ready to deliver your talk.

Embrace the adrenaline rush and try to think of it as excitement rather than fear.

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It can be helpful to do some physical exercise a little while before giving a talk. This wakes up your body, releases tension, and gets the creative juices flowing.

You can also listen to music that inspires or excites you. And then, just before you're ready to go on stage, try to do some breathing exercises or meditation to calm your heart rate and help you focus.

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Fear of failure, poverty, and loss of money
Fear of losing love
Fear of losing our jobs and our financial security
Fear of embarrassment or ridicule
Fear of rejection and criticism of any kind
Fear of losing the respect or esteem of others.

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The most common reaction in a fear situation is the attitude of, “I can’t!”

This is the fear of failure that stops us from taking action. It often shuts down the brain and causes us to revert to the “fight-or-flight” reaction.

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Your self-image, the way you see yourself and think about yourself, is eventually altered by feeding your mind these positive mental pictures of yourself performing at your best.

So visualize yourself performing with confidence and competence in an area where you are fearful.

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With this method, you walk, talk, and carry yourself exactly as you would if you were completely unafraid in a particular situation.

You stand up straight, smile, move quickly and confidently, and in every respect act as if you already have the courage that you desire.

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The Law of Reversibility says that “If you feel a certain way, you will act in a manner consistent with that feeling.”

But if you act in a manner consistent with that feeling, even if you don’t feel it, the Law of Reversibility will create the feeling that is consistent with your actions.

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Move toward the fear. When you identify a fear and discipline yourself to move toward it, it grows smaller and more manageable.

Address it head-on. Your self-esteem will go up and your self-respect will increase.

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Charisma, defined as that irresistible magnetism some people possess, is often thought of as trait you’re born with (you either have it or you don’t).

But the truth is that charisma is a skill you can learn.

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There are 3 keys to being charismatic:

you need to be present in the moment when engaging with others.
you need to give off warmth by implying goodwill toward others.
you need to appear powerful by coming across as someone capable of affecting the world around you.

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... by making a graceful exit. Offer the other person something of value before you go:

Information: an article, book, or web site you think might be of use to them.
A connection: someone they ought to meet, whom you know and can introduce them to.
Visibility: an organization you belong to, where you could invite them to speak.
Recognition: an award you think they should be nominated for

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The concept of the sabbatical has its roots in the Hebrew Bible. Every seven years, a sabbath year (rest) was commanded to give the land rest from agricultural activity.

Similarly, our minds need to rest to be able to continue to grow.

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One reason is that we take on more work than we can handle. We are too busy.

In spite of being too afraid of falling behind during a time of rest, a sabbatical can have a positive effect.

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A sabbatical is a chance to explore ideas related to your work.

You need a strong reason to take one, especially if you have to sell your boss on the idea.

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Instead of complaining that you are burned out, talk to your boss about a sabbatical and explain what you are planning. Make sure you give an adequate amount of notice to all who will be affected.

Interestingly, 23% of companies in the U.S now offer sabbaticals from work, including Adobe, Boston Consulting Group, Autodesk, and even The Cheesecake Factory.

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A successful work sabbatical depends on pre-planning. Pick start and end dates and put them into your calendar.
Get your financial situation in order. Saving early is the best way to ensure financial stress doesn't interfere with your time off.
Bring in accountability partners and have them help you stay strong as your sabbatical start date comes up.

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Sabbaticals are all about rejuvenating and exploring topics you’re deeply passionate about.

If you are unable to take a long sabbatical, consider taking off one day a week, be unreachable one day a month, or disconnect for one hour a day.

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Traditionally, a sabbatical involves a break from work, granted by your employer, and after taking a mutually agreed-upon amount of time off, you return to your work.

A sabbatical can be used to consciously achieve your goals.
A sabbatical might be necessary if you feel drained, unmotivated or exhausted.

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A sabbatical is a chance to readjust, refocus, and get refreshed for the next phase of your life.

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Save as much money as possible in advance.
Find a support system. Self-doubt or criticism from others could prevent you from taking a sabbatical.

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Traditionally, a sabbatical is a period of paid or unpaid leave that is granted to an employee so that they may study or travel.

A modern sabbatical is no longer defined as the absence of work. It can be defined as an active pursuit of purpose.

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You will have a lot of time on your hands to consider the creative ideas in your mind.

Write it down and self publish. Share your knowledge and your narrative with the world.

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Do you have a skill that you would like to improve?

You could use your sabbatical to start a client base for consulting work and build your portfolio while making a profit.

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There are many opportunities where you can use your specific skill set to impact the world. You could spend your time helping a worthy cause while learning about yourself and others along the way.

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A sabbatical may be the time to pursue a higher level of education.

Don’t stop at traditional education avenues either - invest in e-courses, read more books, listen to podcasts (or start your own).

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Set a goal that you would never have done because it would require too much time or effort.

The goal should make you feel like you’re growing and leave you feeling accomplished.

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Join a community of people who are working or in the midst of their professional pursuit, and travel to a different city every month together.

It is your chance to expand your perspective to include the stories, challenges, and optimism of people.

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You need a good reason for your time off.

It could be doing something on your bucket list, like volunteering or teaching, or doing a crash course in a new skill.

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Running off to treat your workplace burnout might not be the best solution. Ask yourself first if your work is fulfilling. If not, it is better to try and find something else first, then take some time off before you start a new position.

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Before you plan a sabbatical, check with your HR department to see what the policy is regarding extended breaks.

Many organizations allow workers a certain amount of unpaid leave.

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Get advice from your peers who have been in a similar position. Find out how to be prepared for a sabbatical and if they think it was a wise choice.

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It is probably a good idea to set a date in advance to ensure both your employer and yourself have enough time to plan.

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Make sure your finances are in order before you take the plunge.

You could also think about raising money or cutting your expenses. Many people work part-time or take on freelance jobs while on sabbatical to supplement their financial situation.

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Most bosses will be skeptical about losing a valued team member for a large period of time.

Mention that taking a sabbatical could positively affect your career. You could also suggest hiring a trainee to cover your duties.

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Most contracts require a year's notice for a sabbatical.

Be sure to speak to your employer as soon as possible.

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Create a plan on what you will be doing on your career break so your goals are more visible.

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Plan your leave well in advance. Create a guide with instructions for your replacement (if there is one) or a detailed brief on your ongoing projects for your colleagues.

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While on our sabbatical, keep in touch with your workplace. Offer to help out with anything if they need you to. Make sure you stay visible. Arrange a hand-back-to meeting before you go.

You could even keep them up to date with your experiences while you're traveling.

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It will be a way of keeping in touch with your friends and family and allow you to put in context what you’ve achieved over your time off from work.

Consider writing a personal diary, blog, or posting on your social media pages.

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Research shows than half of the hiring managers surveyed say the most important thing they look at when hiring candidates is how they kept their skills updated during a career break.

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Before turning on your computer, sit down with a blank piece of paper and decide what you can realistically accomplish that will further your goals.

Take your calendar and schedule those things into time slots, placing the hardest and most important items at the beginning of the day.

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Manage your day hour by hour.

Set your phone or computer to ring every hour. When it rings, take a deep breath, look at your list and ask yourself if you spent your last hour productively.

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Shut off your computer and review your day.

What worked? Where did you focus? Where did you get distracted? What did you learn that will help you be more productive tomorrow?

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We are caught up in a rigid culture that values positivity.

However, when we put aside our difficult emotions in order to embrace dishonest positivity, we fail to discover skills that can help us to deal with our problems.

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How we deal with our emotions affects how we love, how we live, how we parent and how we lead.

We should not view our emotions as good or bad, positive or negative. We need our emotions for real resilience.

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When we go through tough situations, we cannot ignore our negative emotions with the hope that they don't matter.

Write down what you are truly feeling in a personal notebook. Move beyond the rigidity of denial.

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Don't consider what you think you should feel. Open your heart to what you do feel, even the difficult emotions. It could involve pain, regret, grief or loss.

When we name our emotions accurately, we are able to find the cause of our feelings. For example, there is a big difference between \"I'm stressed\", and \"I'm in the wrong career.\"

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Emotions are not directives. We can label our emotions for their values without listening to them.

We own our emotions, they don't own us.

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It means producing something novel or original, evaluating, solving problems, whether on paper, on stage, in a laboratory or even in the shower.

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Geniuses know “how” to think, instead of “what” to think.

People who are more creative can simultaneously engage brain networks that don’t typically work together.

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The default mode network involved in memory and mental simulation
The salience network which detects important information
The executive control network which plays key roles in creative thought

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It can take years to perfect a piece of art, or build something unique.

Cultivate patience. And learn to enjoy the process. It’s part of the discovery.

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“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”

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They are autodidacts and have an inner motivation to solve problems that fascinate them. They preferred figuring things out, rather than waiting to be taught.

They also choose their subjects, materials, rhythm and time.

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\"To truly create something amazing, or contribute to the world, you have to be able to connect countless dots and cross-pollinate existing ideas from a wealth of unrelated disciplines.\"

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We tend to reproduce what we are thought or what we learn when confronted with issues or things to solve.

In order to creatively solve a problem, you must leave aside the initial obvious approach that comes from past experience and re-conceptualize the problem.

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“On average, creative geniuses aren’t qualitatively better in their fields than their peers, they simply produce a greater volume of work which gives them more variation and a higher chance of originality.”

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When you feel a strong, tough emotion, don’t run away from it. Understand why you have this emotion and be open to it.

What is the emotion telling you? Notice the emotion for what it is. Be with your emotions with curiosity, compassion and courage.

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They are basal responses that begin in the subcortical areas of the brain responsible for producing biochemical reactions to environmental stimuli that have a direct impact on our physical state.

Coded into our DNA, emotions help us respond quickly to threats, like our ‘fight or flight’ response. Also, they can often be measured objectively through physical cues such as blood flow, heart rate, brain activity, facial expressions, and body language.

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Feelings are preceded by emotions and tend to be our reactions to them. Emotions are a more generalized experience across humans, but feelings are more subjective and influenced by our personal experiences and interpretations, thus they are harder to measure.

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They can be defined as unpleasant or unhappy emotions evoked in individuals to express a negative effect towards something.

Although some are labeled negative, all emotions are normal to the human experience. And it’s important to understand when and why negative emotions might arise, and develop positive behaviors to address them.

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Negative emotions are uncomfortable, but they aren’t a sign of weakness or low emotional intelligence and ignoring them can increase emotional pain. Exploring and understanding their purpose, we can learn ways to respond which supports our emotional growth and sense of well-being.

Emotions are a low-level reaction so you can decide how you respond to them and not let them hijack your behavior.

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Spending too much time dwelling on negative emotions and their sources can lead to a spiral of rumination. Rumination is obsessing over negative emotional situations, which can eventually negatively affect your mental and physical wellbeing.

The problem with rumination is that it increases your brain’s stress response circuit, meaning your body gets unnecessarily flooded with the stress hormone cortisol, which is a driver for clinical depression.

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It has been linked to overeating, smoking, alcoholism, insomnia, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and clinical anxiety and depression.
Excessive rumination after a negative emotional experience leads to prolonged recovery time from the physiological impact of the experience.
Many confuse it with problem-solving which can lead to prolonged ruminating and further implications for mental and physical wellbeing.

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Sadness helps you focus on details, as it alerts you to something that isn’t right and asks us to turn our attention to why this may be.
Anger can motivate you to address problems in order to restore peace.
Anxiety’s discomfort quickly encourages you to seek new ways of approaching problems.
Guilt serves as a self-punishing device for perceived transgressions, thus helping you change or prevent negative behavior.
Jealousy more often turns into “benign envy”, which motivates you to work harder.

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If we can reframe difficult or negative emotions as part of the bigger picture of overall happiness, they can instruct us that a change is needed and we need to act on the negative behavior to create the change that would lead us to further happiness.

This approach sees us embracing adversity, discomfort and negative emotions as a path to building better resilience and a deeper connection with who we want to be and how we want to show up in the world.

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One of the best ways to deal with negative emotions, in us or in others, is through acceptance. It allows us to build better compassion for how they might present themselves and why.

Acceptance allows us to change how we might respond to negative emotions and develop behaviors that are meaningful and bring value to how we express ourselves and engage with others.

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Task management. This one is most commonly taught and includes systems like Getting Things Done.
Knowledge management. This is embodied in systems like productivity educator Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain.
Priority management. Without this category, the first two will fail. You need to have your tasks and resources organized, but also know how to prioritize them.

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Prioritizing tasks at work involves getting all your tasks and commitments in one place. Take a piece of paper and make a list of everything you need to get done. Questions to help you:

Do you have commitments to others like your boss, partner, kids, or clients?
Do you have anything you need to submit?
Do you have any financial tasks that need to get done?
Do you have any planning that needs to get done?
Do you have any administrative tasks? Legal, insurance, staffing, or training?
Do you have any professional development tasks that need to get done? Training, areas to research, skills to develop, books to read or study, or classes to take?

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Find your goals. Without them, it is impossible to prioritize your tasks. Try to set 90-day goals, which is long enough to make meaningful progress. Questions to prompt goals:

What’s the one thing you could do that makes everything else easier or unnecessary?
If you were giving advice to someone else in your position, what 1-3 things would you tell them to focus on?
What do you want to have accomplished over the next five years?

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Prioritize your list of possible goals using and expected value (EV) calculation. Expected Value = Resources Required x Return on Investment x Probability of Success

Take the list of everything you could potentially work on over the next 90 days and then rank them by these criteria.

Resources required: This is your time and cash required.
Probability of success: How likely it is to work and how excited you are about it.
Return on Investment (ROI): Your 1 Year and 5 Year ROI. Some projects have quick payback periods, and others have long term ones. Try and keep a balance by having one long and one short term ROI.

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This method consists of ranking your tasks into five categories.

A – Very important, must be done at all costs.
B – Pretty important, but the consequences aren’t as serious if it’s not completed.
C – It would be nice to have done, but with no consequences for not doing it.
D – Delegate this to someone else as it's not worth your time.
E – Eliminate. Not worth doing, delete it.

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The priority matrix allows you to look through your to-do list and categorize based on their urgency and importance.

Quadrant 1 - Urgent and important. This is anything due soon or overdue. See what can be automated or delegated.
Quadrant 2 - Not urgent and important. This contains tasks that are beneficial to your career or business in the long run.
Quadrant 3 - Urgent, not important.
Quadrant 4 - Not urgent, not important. Everything else goes here.

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Categorize your tasks by how much value they generate for you or your company. Tasks can be assigned as either $10/hour, $100/hour, $1,000/hour or $10,000/hour.

We might think of the value of the tasks as linear, where some tasks are more important than others. But the difference in value can be huge. For example, one new product could dramatically grow the business while the minor website update might make a negligent difference.

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Some examples of things that often waste time:

Checking business stats (traffic, sales) every day if there is nothing actionable to be done with them.
Going back and forth in an email thread more than once in a day
Meetings before noon or without a clear agenda
Errands that can be outsourced
Social Media and Email on Phone
Responding to Emails more than twice a day
Micromanaging people instead of managing by KPIs and results

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Maker Time: Maker work requires long amounts of uninterrupted time, like coding, designing or writing. The peak energy part of your day is most suited for this.
Manager Work: This work needs to be done, but does not drive things forward, like meetings, email, or filling out tax forms. It is best to \"chunk\" this time too and do it after your Maker work.
Admin Work: This is work you can do when you feel otherwise brain dead, like organizing your office or data entry.

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Update all the tasks on your list and prioritize them. Then put them on your calendar based around your energy levels. Ask \"Given my current energy level, what's the most valuable task I can do now?

First put your rest in your schedule, because it is the easiest to neglect.
Then add your exercise times. It's so easy to skimp on if not scheduled in.
Next, add the high priority work (Maker work or $1,000 - $10,000/hour work.)
Then add your learning.
Finally, add the manager and admin or $10 - $100 work.

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At the start of each day, look over your calendar and task list for that day, and quickly write down three things you are grateful for your priorities of the day.

Writing on paper makes it less likely to keep adding as the day progresses. Crossing the tasks off as you complete them feels very satisfying.

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Our minds are not static, but dynamic. The Brain has the capability to modify itself, change its structure, and to alter its biochemistry, at any age.

We can renew, rewire, heal and adapt our brains.

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You can improve your grey matter by learning a new, complex skill like juggling.

The simple act of juggling has recently been linked with better brain function. A new study reveals that learning to juggle may cause certain areas of your brain to grow.

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Even if it is just for 10 minutes before going to bed, you should be learning new stuff every day, a new skill, a new word, a new kind of idea or philosophy. Expose your brain to new frontiers.

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Have plenty of sleep to protect your brain from shrinking, avoiding any protein buildup (which eats brain cells) and the rapid reduction in brain functioning.

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Exercise rewires the brain. Keep your body active by taking any kind of daily exercise.

Even if you take a 20-minute walk or cycling, it can do wonders for your brain.

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Meditation can permanently rewire your brain to raise the levels of happiness.

The effects and benefits of meditation include stress reduction, improved concentration, a boost in memory and reduced emotional reactions.

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A 1999 study that stated that consuming eggs can lead to cardiovascular disease(CVD) has now been updated. An extensive new study clearly shows no link between egg consumption and CVD risk.

Moderate consumption of eggs is healthy for us.

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... consider:

More than 70% of leaders say their teams do not collaborate on their most important business problems, and 70% say their teams are conflict avoidant.
2 in 5 leaders believe that members of their team have developed caring, trusting, or supportive relationships with one another.
1 in 5 leaders believes that their teams are reaching their full potential.

And the move to remote work (especially in a global pandemic context) will likely make a bad situation worse if you don't take action.
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Virtual and traditional teams can only succeed if all the members of the team feel like they can be candid.
Everyone on the team needs to be accountable, not only to results and to their superior, but to each other.
They proactively foster strong relationships (caring, trusting, supportive generous) among members.
Teams thrive when they have ambitious goals that have been collaboratively created and jointly owned.

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Leaders and team members can make a virtue of this global situation and new world of work: you have an opportunity to introduce a totally new meeting culture, one that values candor and accountability.
It's not going to be easy, given the uncertainty we face. But now more than ever is important to work together.

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Remote work allows us to work with greater flexibility.
Remote workers report higher levels of workplace satisfaction.
Virtual teams allow us to be more diverse and inclusive.
Remote teams outperform collocated ones: A BCG study of 80 software teams found that virtual teams outperform “in real life” counterparts.

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People have loved puzzles since the stone age. It is a phenomenon that is now becoming a craze.

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Being able to solve puzzles provides us with an ‘aha’ moment and improves our pattern recognition, memory and other cognitive skills. Puzzles help us in many diverse cognitive abilities and also helps to reverse age-related cognitive decline. The fun, satisfactory nature of various puzzles help us exercise our brains.

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The ability to solve complex puzzles involves being able to process, match and synthesize a lot of different kinds of information at the same time.

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Mathematics and Music are two areas that are different yet have connections in puzzle solving.

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Paradoxically, the more you get inside a puzzle with seriousness and increased effort, the harder it becomes. Just like the losing chess player who is leaning too close to the board, solving puzzles is not about sheer effort, but a playful, relaxed state of mind.

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Being able to be non-serious and enjoying the moment helps form the necessary connections that are hindered if the mind is in stress.

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According to a cosmetic surgeon, a millimeter in a few spots of a face can be the difference between being very ugly or a supermodel.

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There are times when you feel you are miles away from your desired goal. It is false. You’re only a millimeter away from success.

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When you want to hook up with a wonderful person, there is a chance you may get rejected. If you don't think you can handle it, increase your rejection rate.

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Getting used to being rejected builds mental muscle that will eventually get you a yes from someone you thought were out of your league.

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Every day, a billion things could go wrong for you and create a negative experience.

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Learn to embrace the negative. Reframe your brain, and you will experience something new. Think to yourself, "Isn't it great that it is raining today. Now I can stay inside and read a book."

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It's much easier to follow other people instead of your passion. Stop becoming a follower, and start becoming a leader.

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Tell yourself that you are highly valuable to others and can acquire knowledge and take action. Then coach others and look for ways to help out. Take control of your life, and make your own decisions.

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We often think we need more of everything to get what we want. In truth, we need less of everything, so we can give more, and be better focused on our vision.

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Start practicing living below your means. When you feel you are drawn into a scarcity mindset, practice a form of giving to rewire your brain. Find one thing to give and do so right away.

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Our brain gives hundreds of reasons why we can't do things we've always wanted to do.

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Commit to taking action on the experiences you desire, and stop waiting for the right time. There is never a good time to follow your dreams. When you go ahead and do it, your brain will find a way to deal with the potential time clashes.

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One thing we are never taught is that all success starts with failure.

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Treat your life like a science experiment to find out what formulas for success work for you and which ones don't. String together as many failures in the same area of your life, and if practiced enough, they will translate into one giant success.

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You can read as many positivity blogs as you want. None will help your success.

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What will help your success is taking immediate action on the knowledge you learn from the different sources in your life.

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Amazing things in the world are not created by people with superhuman powers. People like you do extraordinary things every single day.

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You're one of those people. All you need is to put something out in the world that provides value to other people. Your ideas are just as good. Have faith in yourself, and become the catalyst for something.

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We all have days where we need extra love. Love is all around us. It is not hard to find; it's just that you have to give it first before you can receive it.

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Do a nice gesture for someone and watch the love and appreciation be reflected back to you through their eyes.

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We may think that we are going to live forever, but we are not. Nothing is guaranteed.

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It's easy to keep procrastinating. Once you acknowledge that you're not here forever, you'll find a new sense of urgency. You'll follow your passion every day and stop following everyone else.

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We can improve every aspect of our lives by keeping our most vital organ, our brain, healthy.
Exercise is not only good for your body but helps your brain by enhancing many brain structures and functions like the emotion regulating amygdala, and also the prefrontal cortex.

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Drinking tea is good for the brain, helping regulate the age-related decline. It also strengthens the brain connections, the neural network inside the brain, making information processing more efficient.

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Even coffee is said to be good to ward off the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Anything that is bad for the heart is bad for the brain, including smoking cigarettes, or having a sedentary lifestyle, or having diabetes.

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Your blood sugar, body mass index, diet and blood pressure all contribute to the health of your heart, and your brain.

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We consume a lot of disposable information every day. Reading the news, or social media, makes our brains overloaded with irrelevant stuff we don’t need.

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This also includes past memories that are no longer serving us. Too much information clouds your judgement and decision making.

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Consuming low levels of alcohol is associated with a lesser risk of dementia. The key is ‘low dose’. Heavy drinking leads to cognitive decline.

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If your alcohol intake is well within limits and occasional, it will improve overall brain health.

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Running, jogging and aerobic exercises also help the brain. If you can’t take out time to exercise, a simple walk will do.

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Exercise is far better for the brain than sitting and solving brain games, which, according to new research, doesn’t help as much as previously thought.

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What we are doing today, how we master the present day and how good we are in living each day, is the key to master your weeks, months, years and your entire life.

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We start our days accidentally and go spiraling downward, on most days. The first few decisions that are made creates or destroys the momentum and the trajectory the day is going to take.

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Most people keep planning, visualizing and imagining their future life as if they are watching some other person live it. That person is you. If you intentionally live each day, perfecting and maximising your vision of the future, instead of killing time or just living a bread and butter, day-to-day existence, you steer your life towards the direction you want.

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We need to act like the person we wish to become, as we are what we do all day.

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Nutrition: We are what we eat, and having a good nutritious diet, full of green vegetables, nuts and seeds goes a long way. Avoid processed foods at any cost.
Oxygen: or fresh air is a primary need of the brain. Any daily exercise routine is best for brain health.
Information: The brain needs information to process, preferably high quality and diverse. Active learning, along with continuous mental challenges that get the cylinders firing is the way to nourish the brain and form connections. True learning reframes our entire mental model and helps the brain evolve.
Love: What keeps us happy and healthy is good, loving relationships, and the care and touch of loved ones.

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Keep a journal and to-do list, note down in the night what you need to do the following day, and write a bit in the morning about your ideas, completing what you started in the morning. This will enable your subconscious mind to chew on whatever was incomplete at night.
The first three hours of your morning are your coveted hours for productivity, just after you have had a restful sleep.
Your brain is at your best in the morning, along with your energy levels.

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Instead of continuously and tirelessly working, create short bursts of intense activity tailored to your work, followed by rest and recovery.
While taking breaks is looked down upon, this is when the actual productivity of the brain starts to happen, when it is left to think independently.
Deep work, with no distractions is good for a project, but a loose, wandering mind is required to solve difficult problems in an innovative and creative manner.

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When at home, leave your phone aside, as it can consume all your remaining hours in distractions.
Remove unhealthy food from the fridge and pantry.
While working from a cafe, leave your laptop charger at home. Now you have a few hours to complete your work before your laptop dies.
Set yourself short deadlines. Too much time hampers productivity.
Investing your money in your goal makes you more serious about it.

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"A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have."

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Fear to take action can hamper your productivity and pure courage is required to:

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Understand your fear
Face your fear by taking action.

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Confront your fear and do what terrifies you, stepping out of the comfort zone, eventually leading a different life altogether.

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Your being positive and active should have an impact on your network, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Your network becomes your net worth when you consciously leverage it.

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Be bold And passionate and live each day as your finest. You cannot afford to live passively, pay your bills and die.

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This method is best for people who enjoy working in short, focused sprints with frequent breaks. It forces you to consider how long your work will take.

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Set a timer for 25 minutes and focus on a single task until the timer rings.
When the session ends, mark off one pomodoro and record what you completed.
Take a five-minute break.
After four pomodori, take a more extended, half-hour break.

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With the Time Blocking method, split your day into distinct blocks of time. Then, dedicate each block of time to completing only a specific task or set of tasks.

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Ensure to include blocks for things like lunch, breaks, and commutes for the most accuracy. If a task takes less or more time, make modifications to your list to gain a better understanding of how long tasks take.

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Now that you've decided on the productivity approach, it's time to pick your tools:

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A to-do list app: A digital task manager is great for those who are tech-savvy.
A digital list is useful if you're not into a task-manager but still want a digital solution, such as a word processing app or Google sheets.
A digital calendar: Many people opt for a daily planning tool, like Apple Calendar or Google Calendar.
A paper planner can take several forms, including notebooks, agendas, or specialized planners.
A digital and paper hybrid: You might enjoy a paper first, digital second option where you transfer your to-dos from a paper onto a digital task manager for easy reference.

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Eliminate disctractions that pull you away from your objectives for the day. Work with most of your desktop programs closed, your phone on silent, and your notifications off.
Track your time. Tracking your time can help you work more effectively.
Try hourly check-ins. Regularly check in with yourself to notice if you're moving through your day with focus.
Readjust your plan. When unanticipated work arises, take a few minutes to readjust your plan for the day. Then work off of your new plan.
Get to "To Do List Zero." While you want to have zero tasks on your to-do list, it is an opportunity to take stock of where you're at, re-evaluate your tasks, and re-plan them.

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We're often presented with challenges that we've not encountered before that may leave us feeling fearful of making mistakes. But no one can reduce mistakes to zero.

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However, if you understand how anxiety works at a cognitive level, you can learn to use it to prevent errors.

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Don't be ashamed or afraid of your fear of making mistakes, and don't think that being fearful is evidence that you're an indecisive leader. If you are prevention-focused, channel it to be bold and visionary.

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The traditional image of a leader is one who is intelligent, brave, and unafraid. Your concern about making mistakes is there to remind you that you're in a challenging situation. Being cautious has value.

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Fear of mistakes can prevent people from taking action. Overcome this paralysis with emotional agility skills:

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State your fears out loud. It will help diffuse them.
Accept reality. List every truth you need to accept. "I understand that people will not always behave in ideal ways."
Act on your values. Identify your five most important values related to decision-making in a crisis, then ask yourself how each of those is relevant to the critical choices you face.

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.. but only when you are solutions-focused. We can control systems, not outcomes. If you have a system to avoid mistakes, ask yourself:

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Is your data reliable?
What are the limitations of it?
How do your systems help prevent groupthink?
What procedures do you have to prevent blindspots?
What are your processes for being alerted to a problem quickly and fixing it?

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When we're scared of making a mistake, we can become fixated on that particular scenario. For example, if you're worried about tripping at night, you keep looking at our feet.

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When you see your fears in the broader context of all the other threats, you can get a better perspective. Thinking about other negative outcomes can help put you into a problem-solving mode and lessen the mental grip a particular fear has on you.

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Fear grabs our full attention. However, some people react to fear with extreme hyper-vigilance. They want to be on guard all the time.

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That type of adrenalin-fuelled behaviour can have short-term value, but it can also be myopic. We need leisure and sleep to see the bigger picture and think about tough problems holistically.

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When people are fearful, they may have the urge to constantly look at what everyone else is doing. This can result in information overload and you may feel cloudy or shut down.

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Recognise if you're doing this and limit over-monitoring or over-checking.

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

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“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

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“Not all those who wander are lost."

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“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”

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“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” -

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“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

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“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

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“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”

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"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."

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“Only a very small number of people are truly evil. But a very large number of people are conformists. To prevent evil on a mass scale it’s more important for us to ward against our own instinct to conform with the crowd than it is to worry about anything else."

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Our most repeated physical actions can, with continual practice, be performed automatically without any real-time awareness.

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We think of those particular skills being stored in our ‘muscle memory’ but in reality, they are stored very much in our brains.

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Declarative (or Semantic) memory is our factual memory which stores the details like the information and figures, but not the visual, emotional or sensory details.
Episodic Memory stores our life events, for us to be able to relive our past, complete with all the atmospheric details.
Procedural Memory is the memory of skills, in which the brain records the sensory input from the various body parts and muscles during a particular activity, and is able to replicate the muscle application and movement.

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It is the area of the brain responsible for learning new skills.

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Using brain mapping tools, scientists have discovered that the more we use a certain body part, the more information about it is stored in the Primary Motor Cortex region of the brain, which alters its size and the number of connections with the other regions of the brain.

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It is in the front of the Primary Motor Cortex, and is stimulated when we start learning a new skill or are in the planning stages.

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The Basal Ganglia region of the brain shows activity when the muscle movement is initiated. These two regions of the brain are active during the learning stages and as the skill becomes effortless and automatic, the activity in these regions decreases.

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If you wait for the ideal conditions before you start, you'll probably never do it.

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A lack of motivation is an emotional issue. That means there is no hack to save you. The best way to get motivated is just to start. Small steps on meaningful tasks will build motivation.

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We may not feel motivated all the time but we should take advantage when we are motivated.

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The key isn't to use this wave to get something done today, but to use that rush of motivation to set up systems that will force you to build better habits and stay motivated when you don't feel like it. On a smaller scale, use your most productive hours to make progress on something you've been putting off.

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Even in this digital age, when automation is in full force and being swift on the keyboard is a crucial skill, using your hand and pencil is still on top of the charts for cognitive learning.

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Every student of all age groups has one cognitive toolkit with them: a pen and a notebook, to be able to take notes by hand. Handwritten notes are an important and powerful practice to infuse information in the brain, making it easier to retrieve information when required.

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Keyboarding information verbatim into the laptop does not involve any cognitive engagement like concept and vocabulary mapping, paraphrasing, summarizing or organizing as manual, by-hand note taking does.
When we use a pen and paper, we are creating notes in the real sense, crafting and designing them by hand, which aids brain processing.
The cognitive demands of note-taking, taking into consideration speed and legibility makes the process slightly challenging, and creates stronger memory.

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Handwritten notes, letters, diaries and journals are an artful, reflective activity that aids learning, while becoming enduring over time.

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Doodling and drawing illustrations also help us describe our learnings to others, strengthening and aiding visual learning in us as well as those who we teach.

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ASMR is an emotional state that some people experience when they hear, see, and feel certain "triggers," such as whispering, delicate hand movements, and light touch.

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The feeling is described as a tingling sensation that starts from the top of the head and spreads down the neck and limbs. Feelings of euphoria and relaxation accompany this "trance-like" state.

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ASMR typically emerges in childhood. When people find out that ASMR is a "thing", they often report that they thought everyone had the same experience or that it was unique to them.

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Common triggers include soft touch, whispering, soft-speaking, close attention, delicate hand movements, and crisp sounds. Situations that induce ASMR are often a combination of these triggers, such as getting a haircut or watching someone complete a mundane task.

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One study showed that periods of ASMR tingling were associated with increased activation in brain regions involved in emotion, empathy, and affiliative behaviors.

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Other studies show that people with ASMR have less distinct and more blended neural networks, suggesting that ASMR could happen because of a reduced ability to suppress emotional responses that we obtain from our senses.

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Research suggests that people who experience ASMR have a larger tendency to have more immersive or absorbing experiences.

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People with ASMR score higher on 'openness to experience,' reflecting imagination, intellectual curiosity, and appreciation of art and beauty. People with ASMR are also more empathetic when looking at compassion and concern for others.

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People with ASMR show significant reductions in their heart rates when watching ASMR videos.

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These stress reductions were similar to those experienced during mindfulness and music therapy. But research is not clear whether ASMR can and should be used as an effective form of therapy.

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Pain, whether emotional or physical is practically unavoidable in the entire human existence. Drugs may blunt it to an extent (with severe side-effects), but we all dread pain and wish it wasn’t there in our lives.
Pain is, at its core, a flashing red light on the cockpit, a warning system of the human body, guiding it on what action, reflexive or respondatory, has to be taken.
Acute pain, like when you burn your hand on the stove, is essential to our survival and is something all living species(some say even plants) have in common.

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Congenital Insensitivity To Pain (CIP) is a rare genetic condition in which a person does not feel any pain, with no warning signs of ‘hurt’ being registered in the brain even after the body gets injured or damaged.

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No one with this condition survived till adulthood due to them not able to act on the(unfelt) pain, which could have saved their lives.

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The very concept of pain, where it locates and provides the severity of the problem, is an extremely important part of the human body mechanism, as it operates on various dimensions.

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As soon as we touch a hot pan (thermal), our hand is located by the brain, along with the intensity, which is extremely unpleasant and diverts your thoughts towards it, demanding full attention (cognition), making us feel unhappy (emotional).

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When we feel acute pain, we act according to our past experience, preset responses and other environmental and social factors, taking the help of some natural powers of our brain, we can even temporarily block our pain. Pain drives us towards action, prompting a fight or flight response.

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Our skin as a whole network of ‘pain nerve fibres’ with nociceptors in the ends which send signals to the spinal cord and to the brain, where the perception of pain along with its intensity is felt by the individual.

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First Pain is in the fast lane of our nervous system and is called A-Delta. It is felt as acute pain that results in sudden, reflex actions.
Second Pain is on the other lane which is a slower and constantly throbbing sensation (going through C-Fibre), which gives your brain a ‘Still hurting, please check’ signal.

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Certain temperatures and qualities in food activate the same nociceptors, like when one eats a red hot chilli pepper. This is dealt with by nature in a sophisticated way, as a certain chemical that is produced, called capsaicin, gets bound to our nociceptors, activating the same.

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Plants disperse the chemical in ways that promote the spread of its seed and with plant reproduction through birds and bees.

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Pain signal activates many regions of the brain like the brainstem, thalamus and multiple cortex areas. The brain surprisingly can suppress, amplify, reappraise and attenuate the incoming pain signal, coating it with emotions to turn up the volume.

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The brain can talk to the spinal cord and suppress pain, like a brake, at least temporarily. This system is called a descending pain modulatory system, and results in a sort of placebo effect.

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Psychogenic Pain or emotional pain, which is without a physical injury, has a neural basis and is as real as physical pain, and cannot be ignored just because there is no physical location to look at.
Chronic Pain, which is experienced by one-fifth of the population and has significant costs attached to it, apart from other complications like depression, anxiety and sleeplessness. It is one of the biggest health problems on the planet and is due to many different conditions like nerve damage, injury, or arthritis.

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Doctors usually measure a person's pain by the visible features like the severe reactions of agony and grimace, apart from a rating scale and even brain imaging. Other measures like heart and breathing rate also give important signals to consider.
Painkillers like Aspirin (now replaced by ibuprofen) are usually prescribed for pain, and paracetamol is given when there is no inflammation.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, physiotherapy and surgery are other treatments, often used as a combination with the pills.

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Biologists still haven’t found the mystery nociceptor that detects hammer blows, a knife cut or a small pinprick.
Chronic pain is often not understood in many individuals, who are then left untreated.
We still don’t know the exact area which produces the ‘hurt’ of the pain.

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“I don’t mind pain, so long as it doesn’t hurt.”

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If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental belief or assumption that was held in your mind for years or decades, or if you have never questioned the basics, then you may be ignorant. Every process of transformation begins with a change of the mind.

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Life is a series of changes, cycles, rhythms, seasons and systems, flowing like a river. Even your body is changing without your consent, and you can only accept the fact.

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Change is the only wave in the ocean which you can surf and take control of.

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If we live life without evolving, changing or upgrading ourselves, not becoming a completely new, refined person every few months or years, then we are stuck being average and not making the most of our strengths, not participating in the great process of transformation that life is inviting us into.

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"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

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Most people do not make any room in their lives to accommodate better, smarter, faster processes and habits in order to automate their repetitive tasks, freeing up mental bandwidth to indulge in creative pursuits that broaden their minds.
If we still rely on the same mental models and principles that worked five years ago, then we are not really evolving.
Our ability to change as the months and years go by is the only thing that can help us survive, thrive and evolve.

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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

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Human beings grow and evolve naturally, based on our ability to change, and the knowledge we ‘download’ from our surroundings. Being in a growth or a change mode keeps us out of our comfort zones and in the learning zone.

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The learnings and changes need not be radical, and even small, incremental changes in our habits and behaviours will significantly improve our life.

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The ancient art of reading out aloud has many benefits like better recall, a better understanding of complex content, and even strengthening of emotional bonds.
In most of our literary history, reading something meant reading it aloud by default, so that one can also listen to what is being read.
Silent reading, or reading just in our heads is now the norm, and we keep bottling the words in our heads quietly.

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The Production Effect: Researchers have found that people remember words and texts better if those are read out aloud, as compared to silent reading.
The Generation Effect: Words said aloud while giving a response to a question stand out, and are distinctive.
The Enactment Effect: Spoken words also let us visualize, imagine and even enact certain words, strongly associating them with our memory.

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Reading aloud is great for elderly people and can delay the onset of dementia and also make certain memory problems detectable at an early stage.

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Many of us read aloud more often than we realize. Some automatic reading aloud happens when we have to understand complex legal and academic text, or follow instructions from a manual.

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Reading out brings joy, comfort and a sense of belonging among our loved ones, strengthening the emotional bonding.

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The visual cortex region of the brain, which is responsible for processing visual information came millions of years before reading and writing was invented.

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Recent research has provided new insights on how the brain is able to make sense of letters studied the ancient engraved patterns produced by early humans and their ancestors like Neanderthals and Homo Erectus.
The findings suggest that many repetitive lines, grids and angles make up the early visual markings that seem to evolve into complex writing and reading.

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Our brain has the ability to respond to certain patterns and try to make sense of them, using the visual perceptions known as Gestalt Principles, helping early scribblers to construct basic formations that stimulated the higher-order visual cortex regions of the brain.

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Our brain's response to geometry and patterns started taking shape in creation of symmetrical tools known as Acheulean Tools, about 700,000 years ago.

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The geometric patterns that denoted information using symmetry, evolved from crude lines into engraved designs and eventually into modern writing.
Writing text involves an area of the brain known as premotor cortex, which is also responsible for driving manual skills.
Various neurological processes involving identification, pattern recognition and replication to create meaning furthered the evolution of the skills of writing and reading, which have stood the test of time.

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The spiral of silence is a human communication theory developed by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann in the 1960s.

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The theory explains how societies form shared opinions an how we make decisions surrounding difficult topics. According to the theory, we are only willing to express a statement depending on how popular or unpopular we perceive it to be.

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According to the theory of the spiral of silence, our desire to fit in with others means we will speak up if we think our opinion will be popular, or avoid expressing an opinion if it is unpopular.

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The feedback loop means each time someone voices a popular opinion, the positive feedback from the group reinforces the feeling that it is safe to do so. Conversely, receiving a negative response for a divergent opinion will strengthen the view that they should avoid expressing it.

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The result of the spiral of silence is that few will publicly voice a minority opinion and will instead will nurse it in private.
The possibility of conflict makes us less likely to voice any opinion. If we want to know what people think, we need to remove the possibility of negative consequences.
When we see a sudden change in mainstream opinions, it can be because of a shift in what is acceptable to express, not what people really think.
Highly vocal people of a minority opinion can make their views seem far more prevalent and acceptable than they really are.

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