We blush when we’ve admitted the uncomfortable possibility of having offended, inconvenienced, or misled someone. This discomfort is a sign of our disdain for personal arrogance; we hold ourselves—sometimes seemingly against our will—to the standards of honesty & humility.

The Blush- When & Why 

We recognize our ability to annoy & harm others in the absence of self-awareness. The underlying questions behind a blush, such as “Does the person with whom I’m infatuated feel the same?” kindly consider the independence of others, & the profound reality of uncertainty.

The Good Of Blushing 

Perhaps the person who never blushes is worse-off: so certain of everything as to think and act arrogantly, with entitlement & a disregard for self-awareness— particularly of one’s own power to affect others through words and actions.

The Non-Blusher 

You shouldn’t feel so fearful & unforgiving of yourself that your every word & action is up to your own critical scrutiny. Self-awareness pairs well with confidence— sociability with humbleness, & kindness with self-respect.

Striking A Balance 

The uncomfortable blood pressure spike & reddening of the face is perhaps not such a misfortune, after all. 

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Content on max-ing motivation and productivity is everywhere. You probably have a mental list of all the platitudes or hacks. Motivational quotes trick us into feeling like we’ve accomplished something.Then why do we have days when we check off items from To-Do's and days when we just can’t get ourselves out of bed on time? And when we do get motivated, why is it so hard to keep it up?

Did you read platitudes today?

Author Robert McKain quoted “Action precedes motivation.”, but we always read that motivation is what makes us act. So what is it? So should I wait for that drive to get stuff done, or not?There exists an elaborate process of brain activity that pushes you to pursue goals YOU REALLY WANT TO ACHIEVE and the performance tasks that are demanded from you irrespective of interest.

Patience or Impulse?

Having resolutions and not following through is not because you didn't have the time. It's the Neurochemistry of your Motivation & Reward Systems.Motivation is <ul><li>A complex process in the brain</li><li>Involves multiple brain regions</li><li>Several Pathways</li><li>Release of Neural Messengers (Neurotransmitters like Dopamine)</li></ul>

80% of NY Resolutions Fail??

Dopamine (DA) is synonymously used with happiness and reward. It helps feel pleasure and relays 'motivational salience'. Motivational Salience means DA<ol><li>Indicates positive rewarding stimuli and </li><li>Responds to negative non-rewarding stimuli like stress</li></ol>This means, that both external environment and mood play a role in your drive to act.

Craving and Prediction of Rewards

DA is released when we work towards something we think is rewarding - a video game or desire for something tasty. DA is released while predicting and craving rewards, not so much while experiencing it. The process : <ol><li>Release in Planning Network in Pre-frontal Cortex (does most of the thinking)</li><li>Release in Motivation Generating Network in Striatum</li></ol>Parts of the striatum read motivational variables & push you to act on them. This can sometimes go awry - depending on the path and timing of this DA release, you may feel motivated to carry on a task like reading a book or you just don’t feel like it.

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“I only write when inspiration strikes, Fortunately, it strikes at nine every morning.”

Reward/Incentive - achievability of a task and the perceived pleasure/reward from it decides your motivation levels. But the aim is to conquer your goals without waiting for that drive. So what else?<ul><li>Indulge in Challenges/ Competition: Activity of Glutamine and Glutamate determines motivational stamina (our ability to continue a difficult task)</li><li>Unexpected Rewards: Finding money on your walking path one day, will raise your hopes of finding more.</li><li>Habit: Once you start acting on those goals/tasks, a routine will act as a cue for your motivation.</li></ul>

What will boost my motivation?

Ways you can consciously increase and sustain your motivation : <ul><li>Anticipation of Rewards: Visualize a completed task and act towards it, it activates the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC)</li><li>Record your Progress: Track your progress and accomplishments while taking small steps</li><li>Health & Intake: Regular exercise can remodel your entire reward system, allowing increased dopamine release and availability. </li></ul>

Purposeful Self-Motivation

Something we need to know the science of before we blame ourselves for unproductivity. 

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The Angel Philosopher Naval Ravikant has blown the collective mind of Twitter and Podcast Land too many times to count. Here is the ultimate list of his life-changing quotes and wisdom.

The Mind Of Naval Ravikant

<ul><li>It’s better to go through a book really slowly, and struggle and stumble and rewind, than it is to fly through it quickly just to say, ‘Well now I’ve read 20 books.'</li><li>I would rather read the best hundred books over and over again until I absorb them, rather than read every single book out there.</li><li>Read what you love until you love to read.</li><li>It’s far more important in life to know the basics really well across a few domains and combine that than it is to try and be a deep expert in any one domain</li><li>When it comes to reading, I’d make sure your foundation is very, very high-quality.</li></ul>

On Books And Reading

<ul><li>The first step to being happier is to believe you can be happier.</li><li>What you do, and how you do it, is so much more important than how hard you do it.</li><li>Productize Yourself – Create a product out of whatever it is that you naturally and uniquely do really well.</li><li>Find a career/job where you’re tracked on the outputs, rather than the inputs – this will allow you to control your time much better.</li><li>Discipline is just you fighting with yourself to do something you don’t want to do.</li></ul>

Doing What You Love

<ul><li>When faced with a difficult choice, if you can’t decide, the answer is no.</li><li>If you have two choices to make, and they’re relatively equal (it’s 50/50), take the path that’s more difficult and more painful in the short term.</li><li>In times of interpersonal conflict, make the choice that will leave you more equanimous (internally calm).</li></ul>

Decision Making Heuristics

<ul><li>Guilt is just society’s voice speaking in your head.</li><li>You don’t have to deal with anyone you don’t want to – just walk away.</li><li>We’re afraid of death because we fear we haven’t spent our time here on earth wisely.</li><li>If you’re smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy. Otherwise, you’re not that smart.</li></ul>

An Understanding Of Life

I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker, if somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich.

You have social statisticians, scientists, and researchers in lab coats, literally the best minds of our generation figuring out how to addict you to the news. And if you fall for it, if you get addicted. your brain will get destroyed.We are overexposed to everything. The way to survive in modern society is to be an ascetic, it is to retreat from society. There’s too much society everywhere you go. You have society in your phone, society in your pocket, society in your ears… It’s socializing you and programming everyone. The only solution is to turn it off.

The News

Peace is happiness at rest and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace to happiness anytime you want.In today’s day and age, many people think you get peace by resolving all your external problems, but there are unlimited external problems. The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up the idea of having problems.The peace that we seek is not peace of mind, it’s peace from mind.

The Idea Of Peace

The way to retire is actually to find the thing that you know how to do better than anybody. And you know how to do it better than anybody because you love to do it. No one can compete with you if you love to do it. Be authentic and then figure out how to map that to what society actually wants, apply some leverage, put your name on it so you take the risks but you gain the rewards, have ownership and equity in what you do, and then just crank it out.

How To Retire Early

<ul><li>Stop thinking in terms of “careers”</li><li>Instead, focus on developing skills, and doing what you want to do at a particular time to get paid.</li><li>The idea of having a lifelong career is going away.</li><li>If you want money – “Give the world something it wants that it does not yet know how to get”.</li><li>You have to like what you’re doing though – if you don’t like it, someone who does will outcompete you.</li><li>Know that your physical health, mental health, and your relationships will bring you more peace and happiness than any amount of money ever will.</li></ul>

Work And Career

The number one thing you can have is general intelligence, because general intelligence allows you to get good at everything else”.If you’re smart, and question everything, you’ll eventually figure everything else out at a good enough level – this can apply to nutrition, fitness, your sales skills, really anything.Intelligence and open-mindedness are everything.

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<ul><li>Package yourself in a product.</li><li>Create a product out of whatever it is that you naturally and uniquely do really well.</li><li>If you compete at being someone else, you won’t be the best in the world at it, and in turn, you won’t get rewarded properly for it.</li><li>If you’re getting paid for renting out your time, you can make good money, but you won’t make the kind of money that can really give you freedom – the passive income that can make you money while you’re on vacation.</li></ul>

Productize Yourself

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. Aim to have a job, career, or profession where your inputs don’t match your output.Being tracked on the outputs, rather than the inputs, will allow you to control your time much better.2000 years ago, the inputs and outputs were connected – effort=result.Specific Knowledge – A combination of unique traits from your DNA, combined with your unique upbringing and your response to itFigure out what it was you were doing as a kid, almost effortlessly, that you didn’t even really consider a skill, but people around you would notice.

Input-Output

Everybody can be wealthy. It’s not a zero-sum game; it’s a positive-sum game.The reason you want wealth is because it buys you freedom, so you don’t have to wear a tie like a collar around your neck, so you don’t have to wake up at 7 AM and rush to work in traffic, so you don’t have to waste away your entire life grinding all your productive hours away to a soulless job that doesn’t fulfil you.All the benefits in life come from compound interest, whether in relationships, life, your career, health, or learning.

Wealth Is Freedom

The 5 most important skills are reading, writing, arithmetic, persuasion, and computer programming.If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic math, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.

The Five Most Important Skills

<ul><li>Get comfortable with frequent, small failures. If you’re willing to bleed a little bit every day, but in exchange, you win big later, you’ll be better off.</li><li> Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.</li><li>Reject most advice (but remember you have to listen to/read enough of it to know what to reject and what to accept).</li><li>Results take TIME. In entrepreneurship, you just have to be right ONCE. The good news is you can take as many shots on goal as you want (usually every 3-5 years, 10 at the slowest).</li></ul>

Entrepreneurship

<ul><li>Happiness is a bad word, it’s like love, it’s overloaded, it means too many different things.</li><li>You have to work to achieve happiness, but you don’t need to overwork yourself to get it.</li><li>It’s very easy for self-improvement to degenerate into self-conflict and self-conflict into self-misery.</li><li>You don’t want to spend 90% of your life trying to figure out how to be happy and 10% being happy, you want to be happy right now.</li></ul>

Happiness

<ul><li>Desire is suffering… every desire you have is an axis where you will suffer. So just don’t focus on more than one desire at a time. </li><li>The universe is rigged in such a way that if you just want one thing, and you focus on that, you’ll get it, but everything else you gotta let go.</li><li>Pick your one overwhelming desire – it’s okay to suffer over that one. But on all the other desires, let them go so you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed.</li></ul>

Desire

Meetings should really be phone calls, phone calls should be emails, and emails should just be texts.The cost of meetings is so high, especially given all the people who are in there. You’re literally just dying an hour at a time. You have to drop non-urgent meetings or forget them altogether if you want to do anything great.

Meetings

<ul><li>Set an aspirational hourly rate for yourself and stick to it.</li><li>Then, never do anything with your time for less than that amount – whether it’s attending a meeting or returning a package from Amazon (besides things for fun and leisure, of course).</li><li>If I have to return something, and it costs less than my personal hourly rate, I’ll throw or give it away.</li><li>If you need to do a task, but can hire someone for less than your hourly rate – hire them.</li></ul>

Your Hourly Rate

<ul><li>Be RUTHLESS about not scheduling things. You will HAVE to disappoint people, but when they want your time, that’s their problem, not yours.</li><li>Busy is the death of productivity.</li><li>You have to get bored before you can get creative… You can’t be creative on schedule.</li><li>You need 4-5 hours of time by yourself every day doing NOTHING. Because if you don’t have that time, you won’t be able to do ANYTHING.</li></ul>

Scheduling: The Death Of Productivity And Creativity

<ul><li>The most important form of leverage is the idea of products that have no marginal cost of replication (aka product leverage).</li><li>You can replicate your efforts without having to involve other humans.</li><li>Long ago, to get a similar reach, you would have had to give a public lecture.</li><li>30-40 years ago – you would have had to get on TV.</li><li>But today, thanks to the internet, anyone can launch a podcast.</li></ul>

Leverage

<ul><li>Product leverage is how fortunes will be made in the digital age – using things like code or media</li><li>People who utilized code-based product leverage – Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin.</li><li>Kings of media-based product leverage – Joe Rogan, Gary Vee.</li><li>Combining labour leverage, capital leverage, and product leverage is a magic combination for tech startups.</li><li>You use the minimum, highest output labour – engineers and product developers.</li><li>You add capital which you can use for marketing, advertising, and scaling.</li><li>You then add lots of code, media, and content to get everything out there.</li></ul>

Product Leverage

The robot revolution has already arrived – we just keep them in data centres/servers.Every great software developer has an army of software robots working for him/her at night, while they sleep, after they’ve written the code and they’re just cranking away:<ul><li>Robots do web searching.</li><li>Robots handle customer service inquiries.</li><li>Over time, this will progress to autonomous vehicles/planes/trucks.</li></ul>Coding is a superpower because it allows you to speak the language of the robots and tell them what to do.

The Robot Revolution

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Naval Ravikant Quotes That Could Change Your Life • Podcast Notes

Not every emotion we carry is fully acknowledged, understood or felt. Some feelings are 'unprocessed' from within. For example, many of our uninterpreted worries may show up as powerful directionless anxiety. Someone may have abused our trust or violated our self-esteem. We may feel compelled to remain busy, fear spending time on our own or do activities that ensure we don't meet what scares us head-on. These activities can include internet pornography, tracking the news or exercising compulsively.

We don't understand our emotions

Our minds may grow unoriginal. We grow depressed about everything because we are sad about something.  We can no longer sleep because we omitted to process all the thoughts of the day.   We avoid processing emotions because what we feel is opposite to our self-image and threatening to our society's ideas of normality. However, we need compassion for ourselves.

We pay dearly for failing to process our feelings

We fail to know ourselves simply because it hurts a lot. Processing emotions requires good friends, therapists and ritual moments like meditation, where we can drop our defences.  When we process our emotions, we always feel elevated in our overall mood. But first, we must go through a period of mourning where we acknowledge that life is sadder than we want it to be.

Why we fail to know ourselves

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“It is a quirk of our minds that not every emotion we carry is fully acknowledged, understood or even truly felt.
There are feelings that exist in an ‘unprocessed’ form within us. A great many worries may, for example, remain disavowed and uninterpreted and manifest themselves as powerful directionless anxiety. Under their sway, we may feel a compulsive need to remain busy, fear spending any time on our own or cling to activities that ensure we don’t meet what scares us head on (these might include internet pornography, tracking the news or exercising compulsively). A similar kind of disavowal can go on around hurt. Someone may have abused our trust, made us doubt their kindness or violated our self-esteem but we are driven to flee a frank recognition of an appalling degree of exposure and vulnerability. The hurt is somewhere inside, but on the surface, we adopt a brittle good cheer (jolliness being sadness that doesn’t know itself), we numb ourselves chemically or else adopt a carefully non-specific tone of cynicism, which masks the specific wound that has been inflicted on us…”

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According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?

How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts

In her new book, Dopamine Nation, emphasises that we are now all addicts to a degree. She calls the smartphone the “modern-day hypodermic needle”: we turn to it for quick hits, seeking attention, validation and distraction with each swipe, like and tweet. Since the turn of the millennium, behavioural (as opposed to substance) addictions have soared.

Every spare second is an opportunity to be stimulated, whether by entering the TikTok vortex, scrolling Instagram, swiping through Tinder or bingeing on porn, online gambling and e-shopping

Global depression rates have been climbing significantly in the past 30 years and, according to a World Happiness Report, people in high-income countries have become more unhappy over the past decade or so. We’ve forgotten how to be alone with our thoughts. We’re forever “interrupting ourselves”, as Lembke puts it, for a quick digital hit, meaning we rarely concentrate on taxing tasks for long or get into a creative flow.

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She wrote Dopamine Nation because she believes her recovering patients – whether 60-something Jacob who built a masturbation machine to satiate his sex habit; teenaged Delilah, who couldn’t get out of bed unless she was high on cannabis; or Chi, who bought thousands of cheap consumer goods online just to experience the thrill of opening the package – have “acquired a wisdom we all could benefit from"

Why Dopamine Nation

Rather than giving us pleasure itself, as is commonly thought, dopamine motivates us to do things we think will bring pleasure. As the brain’s major reward and pleasure neurotransmitter, it’s what drives us to seek pizza when we’re hungry and sex when we’re aroused. Scientists use dopamine to measure “the addictive potential of any experience,” writes Lembke. The higher the dopamine release, the more addictive the thing.

Understanding How Dopamine Works

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As human beings, we're very good at keeping going. We live up to our demands and carry out demands others place on us. We keep on showing up and can do this for decades at a time.
Then, one day, much to everyone's surprise, and our own, we break. We can no longer get out of bed. We fall into depression. We don't feel like eating. We refuse to play by the normal rules we've lived by.
But breakdowns are very inconvenient to others, so there's a rush to medicalise the problem so that it can be business as usual. To do this is to misunderstand what's going on.

Breaking down

A breakdown is an attempt of one part of our minds to force the other part into growth, self-understanding and self-development that we refuse to undertake. In essence, it's an attempt to jumpstart a process of getting well. 
There is then a danger to merely medicalising the breakdown and attempting to push it out the way. 
We break down because, over the years, there were messages we needed to hear but didn't pay attention to; emotional learning and communicating we didn't do until the emotional self became desperate to make itself heard.

A breakdown is a bid for health

A breakdown lets us know that things have to change. 
But we find it difficult to simply listen to the emotional need in good time because the conscious mind is inherently reluctant to engage with what the breakdown eventually has to tell it. For years it refuses to listen to sadness or to the dysfunction in a relationship.

A breakdown is telling us that it must not be business as usual

After a breakdown, many people will say that they don't know how they'd ever have gotten well if they didn't fall ill.
During a breakdown, we have not gone mad. We behave oddly, but deep inside, there is a search for health. If we can get through our crisis, it can dislodge us from a toxic status quo and call us to rebuild our lives more authentically.

Rebuilding our lives

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Do Epic Shit - as the name suggest is a great book which provides different ways of living different life. 

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Ankur Warikoo is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Ankur Warikoo has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Ankur Warikoo's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Do Epic Shit

DO EPIC SHIT.

Going it alone

Being insensitive of your behavior on others 

valuing being right above everything else

Having an "I know" attitude 

Avoiding the difficult conversations

playing the victim; refusing responsibility

Blaming others or circumstances 

not honoring the other person's time, energy, resources

Treating commitments casually 

Conspiring against others

Withholding emotional commitment 

Not taking a stand

Tolerating "good enough" 

Self-awareness is a crucial key to finding out that blind spots. Without self-awareness, we move through relationships and experiences disconnected, unaware of how others receive and perceive us, and unable to take full responsibility for our outcomes. References: https://www.fearlessculture.design/blog-posts/how-to-conquer-your-blind-spots https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2014/04/10/how-successful-people-cure-their-blindspots/ https://www.inc.com/marissa-levin/the-top-10-leadership-blind-spots-and-5-ways-to-tu.html Subscribe to my channel: https://goo.gl/wRwHZB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalwavetips/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@digitalwave01 TAGS: education,psychology,information,facts,motivation,health and wellness,relationships blind spots,leadership skills,Top 10 Leadership Blind Spots,Self-awareness,Fearless Leadership,Loretta Malandro,feedback,The Johari Window,Joseph Luft,Harry Ingham,self discovery,personal growth,leadership development,personal development,motivational speaker IMPORTANT! -None of these images, music & video clips were created/owned by us. -This video is purely fan-made, if you (owners) have seen your content and want to remove this video, please message us privately or mail us wshrahdir@gmail.com before doing anything. We will respectfully remove it immediately. -COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER UNDER SECTION 107 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT 1976 - Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Self-awareness is a crucial key to finding out that blind spots. Without self-awareness, we move through relationships and experiences disconnected, unaware of how others receive and perceive us, and unable to take full responsibility for our outcomes. 

References: 
https://www.fearlessculture.design/blog-posts/how-to-conquer-your-blind-spots
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2014/04/10/how-successful-people-cure-their-blindspots/
https://www.inc.com/marissa-levin/the-top-10-leadership-blind-spots-and-5-ways-to-tu.html

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