<ul><li>You’re blaming your idea, when in reality you should do things differently </li></ul>

The Reason

I started a business 2 years ago, and 2 months ago I decided to quit. I shouldn’t have  

Take a few steps back, and you won't regret it! Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about his experience of starting another business was a mistake, the lessons he wishes to impart, and why doing boring work is just as important as making money. Welcome to The Game Podcast where we talk about how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, and keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way to $100M in sales. We've got roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hustle with a little bit of cleverness and a lot of heart. Timestamps: (1:22) - Neighbor creating same business again: used existing skills & knowledge (3:25) - Good strategy is knowing what to say “no” to (5:00) - Can't be CEO of two businesses (7:59) - Learning from 10+ years of experience is more fruitful Follow Alex Hormozi’s Socials: LinkedIn  | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube  | Twitter | Acquisition 

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(This episode is a re-run. Original airdate was October 5, 2021) Take a few steps back, and you won't regret it! Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about his experience of starting another business was a mistake, the lessons he wishes to impart, and why doing boring work is just as important as making money. Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth. Timestamps: (1:22) - Neighbor creating same business again: used existing skills & knowledge (3:25) - Good strategy is knowing what to say “no” to (5:00) - Can't be CEO of two businesses (7:59) - Learning from 10+ years of experience is more fruitful Follow Alex Hormozi’s Socials: LinkedIn  | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube  | Twitter | Acquisition 

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

The Game w/ Alex Hormozi

Why Creating Another Business Isn't The Answer | Ep 518

Why Creating Another Business Isn't The Answer (#ThrowbackThursday) | Ep 518

<ul><li>Something that feels novel.</li><li>Something that feels true. </li><li>Something you want more of. </li></ul>

What’s Creative? 

<ul><li>Executive network: to eliminate choices.</li><li>Default mode network: for spontaneous imagination that arise when you stop paying attention to the external world. </li><li>Salience network: to pay attention to what’s more interesting in the external world or in your mind. </li></ul>

Neural Circuits Involved In Creativity

<ul><li>Divergent thinking: involves taking one stimulus to radiate out into different things. </li></ul> (This is what underlies idea generation).<ul><li>Convergent thinking: involves getting to a single answer from one stimulus. </li></ul>(It requires more focus).

What Is Needed For Creativity 

Because there is impossible to be creative without the information to generate it.

Why Limitless Movie Can’t Happen In Real Life 

<ul><li>Nigra-Striatal Pathway: involved in generating movements, eye movements, and when you think about movement.</li></ul>(It’s involved in divergent thinking). <ul><li>Mesocortical pathway: it’s involved in motivation and emotions. </li></ul>(It’s involved in convergent thinking). <ul><li>Mesolimbic pathway</li></ul>(Not involved in creativity)<ul><li>Tuberoinfundibular pathway</li></ul> (Not involved in creativity)

Circuits In The Brain That Utilize Dopamine 

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Open monitoring meditation (For divergent thinking).</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Focused attention meditation (For convergent thinking).</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Yoga nidra (For divergent thinking): it creates a 65% increase in the release of dopamine. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Explore patterns of movements (for divergent thinking)</li></ul>

Tools To Be More Creative 

Allow whatever thoughts, emotions or ideas arrive to occur.

Open Monitoring Meditation

Focusing your attention on one stimulus.

Focused Attention Meditation

<ul><li>If you feel in a good mood (High dopamine levels), avoid external stimuli and start with divergent thinking as soon as possible. </li><li>If you feel in a bad mood (low dopamine levels), seek external stimuli and don’t start divergent thinking just yet. </li></ul>

What You Should Do Depending On Your Mood

<ul><li>Serotonin can increase both Convergent And Divergent Thinking</li><li>Cannabis can increase too much divergent thinking, but those ideas can be forgotten.</li><li>Being in a good mood facilitates creative thinking.</li></ul>

Additional Notes 

According to this theory, there are three elements to enhance creativity: <ul><li>World building: imagine new worlds are posible by creating new rules.</li><li>Perspective shifting: think about others underlying motivations.</li><li>Action generating techniques: force collaboration</li></ul>

Narrative Theory

In this episode, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one’s ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in these creative thinking patterns in specific and powerful ways. I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. Excitingly, creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman ROKA: https://www.roka.com/huberman Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://www.insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Creativity (00:04:30) ROKA, Thesis, LMNT, Momentous (00:08:51) What is Creativity? (00:11:16) Creativity in Visual Arts, Escher & Banksy (00:23:37) Neural Circuits of Creativity (00:31:58) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:33:13) Creative Ideas & Divergent Thinking (00:42:09) Testing Creative Ideas & Convergent Thinking (00:46:41) Dopamine, Convergent & Divergent Thinking Pathways (00:57:02) InsideTracker (00:58:06) Tool: Open Monitoring Meditation & Divergent Thinking (01:07:38) Tool: Focused Attention Meditation & Convergent Thinking (01:11:06) Mood, Creativity & Dopamine (01:16:00) Tool: Mood Calibrating, Caffeine & Dopamine (01:23:41) Dopamine Supplementation; L-Tyrosine, Caffeine (01:30:15) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest, Mesocortical Dopamine & Divergent Thinking (01:43:130 Serotonin, Psylocibin & Creative Thinking (01:49:13) Alcohol & Autobiographical Scripting; Cannabis (01:52:04) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Creativity (01:54:45) Tool: Movement & Divergent Thinking (02:01:02) Tool: Narratives & Storytelling for Creativity (02:14:47) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media Disclaimer Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac

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In this episode, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one’s ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in these creative thinking patterns in specific and powerful ways. I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. Excitingly, creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://athleticgreens.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Huberman Lab Premium https://hubermanlab.com/premium Timestamps (00:00:00) Creativity (00:04:47) Sponsor: LMNT (00:08:51) What is Creativity? (00:11:16) Creativity in Visual Arts, Escher & Banksy (00:23:37) Neural Circuits of Creativity (00:27:54) Sponsor: AG1 (00:33:13) Creative Ideas & Divergent Thinking (00:42:09) Testing Creative Ideas & Convergent Thinking (00:46:41) Dopamine, Convergent & Divergent Thinking Pathways (00:58:06) Tool: Open Monitoring Meditation & Divergent Thinking (01:07:38) Tool: Focused Attention Meditation & Convergent Thinking (01:11:06) Mood, Creativity & Dopamine (01:16:00) Tool: Mood Calibrating, Caffeine & Dopamine (01:23:41) Dopamine Supplementation; L-Tyrosine, Caffeine (01:30:15) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest, Mesocortical Dopamine & Divergent Thinking (01:43:13) Serotonin, Psylocibin & Creative Thinking (01:49:13) Alcohol & Autobiographical Scripting; Cannabis (01:52:04) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Creativity (01:54:45) Tool: Movement & Divergent Thinking (02:01:02) Tool: Narratives & Storytelling for Creativity (02:14:47) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media Disclaimer Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac

Huberman Lab discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.

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The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation | Episode 103

The experiences in your residency CV can be used to help you indicate why you are applying to a particular program and how you came to that decision.

What to Include in Your Personal Statement

<ul><li>Specific reasons for choosing the specialty</li><li>Experiences in the specialty you are applying to</li><li>Reasons for applying to the specific program</li><li>Any experiences working in the city and program you are applying to</li><li>Learning goals and future career plans</li></ul>

Topics That Should Be Covered

<ul><li>Reflections on the selection criteria mentioned by your program</li><li>Personal strengths that you can contribute to the program</li><li>Did you consider applying to other specialties?</li><li>Significant research contributions, publications or presentations</li><li>Any gaps in your medical education or evaluations that were less than satisfactory</li></ul>

You may also choose to include the following:

Residency personal statement examples are one of the best ways to find inspiration if you are having a mental block. Here are the top 20 for 2022 with feedback and tips from doctors who matched into their first choice specialty!

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If you want to learn skills that improve your salary But you don't usually remember the information you're learning These are 3 tools that, according to science, will improve your salary by learning new things

What Do you Want?

Maybe you finished uni two years from now. In that time, you have not been able to improve your salary because they ask you for specializations, master's degrees or doctorates. And you probably don't have enough time or money to start taking them. Let's see how you can learn better to improve your salary according to science →

Probability

Before I used to learn new information in the following way: I got up early, took a shower with cold water to have energy, had breakfast and then I had a coffee to start studying. I felt awake, but after a couple of days the information I had learned was no longer on my mind. Why?

How We Are Used to Learn

Anyone would say that I was not studying properly. That I was not studying with active recall or spaced repetition, which are the most effective techniques for learning according to science [1]. And no, that was exactly what I was doing. (By the way, active recall and spaced repetition refer to asking ourselves what we learn and doing it spaced out in time).

The Apparent Mistake

So, if I was studying in the most appropriate way according to science, Why was I forgetting the information? Why did you have to start from scratch every time?

Two Reasons

Let's start with the first: how long do you have to repeat the information to remember it forever. As much as I'd love to promise you foolproof strategies, life doesn't work like that. Everything fails at a certain moment, even one fails. And since you yourself fail, you can't rely on sparingly repeating the information so many times (because you're also lazy). So instead of focusing on how many times you should repeat the information you study, do this →

How Long do you Have to Repeat the Information to Remember it Forever

Add emotion to what you learn. And no, I don't mean to encourage what you are studying. I mean looking for the information you learn to be more emotional. Science has shown that it is easier to remember information this way [2].

The Key

How to make the information you learn more emotional? The easiest way is to relate it (hypothetically) to your daily life. For example, if you are learning how to create a web page, think about how you would explain that to your partner if you wanted them to understand.

How to Make the Information You Learn More Emotional?

You may be wondering what happened to the chemical. What happened to that that was going to allow you to better remember the information in your brain.

There's Something Missing

In the post we talked a bit about asking ourselves what we study and doing it spaced out over time. The problem is that you probably don't have the time to ask yourself the information that you learn very often. What to do in those cases? Is it worth playing the victim and saying you can't improve because you don't have enough time? Not really. Especially since there are always better strategies. And one of those strategies has to do precisely with a chemical substance that has a very particular result:

The Chemical that Will Help you Remember Information Easier 👇🏻.

That substance is adrenaline, and it can be achieved by exposure to cold or by consuming caffeine*. But the key is to do it right after learning [3]. Tell me in the comments if you prefer to take a shower with cold water or drink coffee. I read you *this is informative and not medical, for more information consult a professional.

It Decreases the Number of Repetitions Needed to Remember the Information you Learn.



[1] Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100612453266[2] Cahill L, McGaugh JL. Mechanisms of emotional arousal and lasting declarative memory. Trends Neurosci. 1998 Jul;21(7):294-9. doi: 10.1016/s0166-2236(97)01214-9. PMID: 9683321.

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[3] Cahill L, Gorski L, Le K. Enhanced human memory consolidation with post-learning stress: interaction with the degree of arousal at encoding. Learn Mem. 2003 Jul-Aug;10(4):270-4. doi: 10.1101/lm.62403. PMID: 12888545; PMCID: PMC202317.

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How to Earn While you Learn

Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. And that means getting started is the hardest part.

Use your ritual as an on-ramp for the bigger behavior and habits you want to build into your life. When you master the ability to mindlessly initiate the tasks that are important to you, it's not necessary to rely on motivation and willpower to make them happen.

If you focus on the ritual, the next step follows more automatically.



James Clear on How to Be Motivated Every Day

Twyla Tharp uses rituals and routines to master her motivation. You can borrow her strategies to be motivated every day with the perfect morning routine.

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Habits

How to Be Motivated Every Day: Lessons Learned from Twyla Tharp

You can’t confound it with high’s (likes, money, hookups). Actually, happiness can be boring, and unpleasant.

The Meaning Of Happiness

It’s necessary to get it wrong at first.

How To Figure Out What We Want 

Bestselling author Mark Manson speaking about success and his impact on happiness

Mark Manson is the phenomenon behind ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ and ‘Everything is F*cked’. He has sold over 13 million books and his blog, Life Advice That Doesn’t Suck, receives millions of views every month. His new book is co-written with Will Smith and is called ‘Will’.




Mark is a…

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‎The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: E111: The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck: Mark Manson en Apple Podcasts

<ul><li>Solitude is the strength of being alone </li><li>Loneliness is the weakness of being alone </li></ul>

Solitude Vs Loneliness

Talk to yourself out loud whenever you liked the way you acted or you know you did it bad

Pinpoint Evaluation 

<ul><li>Care </li><li>Character</li><li>Competence </li><li>Consistency </li></ul>

4 Ways A Person Can Be For Us 

You can actually be spiritual and also strive for external things.

False Paradox 

Before Judging Someone Else’s Behaviors…

<ul><li>Breathwork: to come back into alignment</li><li>Visualization: art of visualizing what something will look like (the process)</li><li>Mantra: sound </li></ul>

Types Of Meditation 

Use it as a signal of what matters to you, not as a push that makes you do stuff you don’t want to do, or don’t do something you want to.

The Correct Use Of Fear 

They are not bad for us, what’s bad is how we react to them.

The Impact Of External Events

Stop waiting for someone to change your life, you have to change your life

Don’t focus on that. Instead, be obsessed with your pirposo

About Work - Life Balance 

<ol><li>Learn something </li><li>Launch something </li><li>Love something </li></ol>When you learn something you can launch it and then you learn to love it.

How To Be Happy

As an addition, not a substraction. You’ll always be learning something.

How To Look At Life

<ul><li>How do I feel about myself?</li><li>What do I do for money?</li><li>Who do I give my love to?</li><li>How do I serve on these</li></ul>

The 4 Most Important Decisions 

Would You Like To See More Like This? 

Amazing way of balancing hard work and pleasure on life 

Jay Shetty is the best-selling author of Think Like a Monk, host of the No. 1 podcast On Purpose, spiritual friend to celebrities from Ellen Degeneres to Oprah Winfrey, and a former monk. 




Jay is one of the most wise people I have ever met. Very few people can reach into depths of insight on suc…

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‎The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: E119: Jay Shetty: The 3 Simple Things A Happy Life Needs en Apple Podcasts

“The way to the goal is not to be measured! Of what importance are weeks, months, years?”

Complete awareness of the body and mind in relation to the goal even when the goal have been reached

Zanshin

“After winning the battle, tighten your helmet.”

<ul><li>To writing: the battle does not end when you publish a book.</li><li>To fitness: the battle does not end when you hit a PR.</li><li>To entrepreneurship: the battle does not end when you make a big sale.</li></ul>

Zanshin applied

“One should approach all activities and situations with the same sincerity, the same intensity, and the same awareness that one has with bow and arrow in hand.”

We live in a world obsessed with results. Instead, we should put that intensity, focus and sincerity into the process.

Our mistake

The point is not to worry about hitting the target.﻿The point is to fall in love with the boredom of doing the work and embrace each piece of the process.

Main takeaway

An affirmation and little reminder to the phrase: "journey rather than destination"

Zanshin is choosing to live your life intentionally and acting with purpose rather than mindlessly falling victim to whatever comes your way.

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Zanshin: Learning the Art of Attention and Focus From a Legendary Samurai Archer

Sometimes giving up can be the best thing you can ever do for yourself — sometimes quitting is exactly what you should do.

The reason

Have you ever found yourself working so hard on something without knowing exactly why?

1. Why Am I doing this?

Am I solving a problem by doing what I’m doing? Is what I’m doing helping me? Is it working for me?

2. Is it working for me?


Is what I’m doing really worth it?Is all this sweat and blood worth the end result? Is it worth the sacrifice or is there a chance I might be hurting myself ultimately?

3. Is it really worth it?


Whenever you’re working on something, ask yourself this: “Is there an easier way to do this?”

4. Is there an easier way?


Am I prioritizing effectively? Am I doing what’s best for me from all points of view? Or at least from all the views that I can see at the moment?

5. What could I be doing instead?

There is value in changing your mind.

Quitting is actually productive


"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself because you’re the easiest person to fool.”

You can’t get that time back and the worst thing you can do now is waste even more time.

Takeaway

Not many of us like the idea of quitting. It seems like something we should all be ashamed of. It slams a big ‘loser tag’ on our foreheads — “If you’re a quitter, you’re a loser.” Giving up passes a…

Here’s Why You Should Give Up On Your Dreams

<ul><li class="ql-align-center">This is the thing about resistance: If you’re doing what you think you should be doing rather than what you want to do with your whole heart, you are not persisting, you are resisting the truth about who and what you are.</li></ul>

Quit if the cost is too high, if you’re doing it because you feel you owe it to someone, or quit if you don’t love it.

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