<ul><li>When people notice you are sure about yourself. This communicates strength.</li><li>When people see you are not trying to be confident. Trying reveals desperation. Desperation isn't sexy.</li><li>When you allow others to be themselves in your presence. You allow others to shine and aren't intent upon hogging the attention or making it about yourself.</li><li>When people see that you are not about competing with others. Nobody enjoys someone who makes it about their ego to be above or better than others.</li><li>When people notice that you actively listen and appreciate what others are saying. You make others feel seen.</li></ul>

You appear charming to others

<ul><li>When you choose to speak, you speak intelligently and have got jokes. Intelligence with self-effacing humor is charming. It shows that you are smart but at the same time you understand that the world doesn't revolve around you.</li></ul>

Humans are not the object that you need to impress. They are neither worthy nor unworthy. They are just like you are.You can't control others. Why not focus entirely on controlling your conduct and centering it around values that make you respect yourself?Your expectations must be to uphold your values. How dignified, mannerful, and decent you are to your fellow human species is how you decide what to think of yourself.

Stop Trying to Impress People

The motivation to 'Improve talking skills so people will like you more' is desperate.Instead focus on making your mind a beautiful place filled with knowledge, facts, wisdom, and perspectives, and people will enjoy conversing with you as a result.

Make Your Mind a Beautiful Place

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Projection is a <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/defense-mechanisms-2795960">defense mechanism</a> in which an individual recognizes their unacceptable traits or impulses in someone else to avoid recognizing those traits or impulses in themselves subconsciously.People protect their self-esteem by denying characteristics, impulses, or feelings they find threatening while seeing those same characteristics in someone else.

Projection as a Defense Mechanism

<ul><li>A wife is attracted to a male co-worker but can't admit her feelings, so when her husband talks about a female co-worker, she becomes jealous and accuses him of being attracted to the other woman.</li><li>A man who feels insecure about his masculinity mocks other men for acting like women.</li><li>Someone feels guilty for feeling the urge to steal, leading them to suspect that others are planning to take their wallet or other valuables.</li><li>A young man ignores his own aggressive impulses and instead inaccurately believes his friend has aggressive tendencies.</li></ul>

Examples of Projection

We always see our own unavowed mistakes in our opponent.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

In the short term, projection can be helpful. By denying uncomfortable truths about themselves, people can better cope with their anxieties and maintain their self-esteem.However, projection can ultimately become harmful because it can disrupt interpersonal relationships and lead to issues like bullying, jealousy, and victim-blaming.

Impact of Defensive Projection

<ul><li>The first step is self-reflection. Try to be honest with yourself about what makes you insecure and anxious, and examine the traits and impulses you have that you may least like about yourself.</li><li>Then, attempt to view your behavior objectively to see if you may be projecting any of the anxieties you have about yourself onto someone else. Try not to judge yourself during this exploration; observe and honestly assess without dwelling on anything you uncover.</li></ul>

How to Recognize and Overcome Projection

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Projection is when one sees the traits that they find unacceptable in themselves in others. Learn about the origin and impact of the defense mechanism projection.

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When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made them do it? Once you understand their concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for them and cease to either be amazed or angry.If their concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive them since you would have acted as they did in similar circumstances.But if you do not share their ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle.

A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. Spanning from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation, they cover such diverse topics as the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods and the values of leadership. But while the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation, in developing his beliefs Marcus also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a series of wise and practical aphorisms that have been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and ordinary readers for almost two thousand years. To provide a full understanding of Aurelius's seminal work, this edition includes explanatory notes, a general index, an index of quotations, an index of names, and an introduction by Diskin Clay putting the work in its biographical, historical, and literary context, a chronology of Marcus Aurelius's life and career. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Meditations (Medieval Greek: Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, romanized: Ta eis he'auton, lit. 'things to one's self') is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. Some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia, because internal notes tell us that the first book was written when he was campaigning against the Quadi on the river Granova (modern-day Hron) and the second book was written at Carnuntum.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known, noncontemporaneously, as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calmness and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD.

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Prejudice is an assumption or an opinion about someone simply based on that person's membership to a particular group.In society, we often see prejudices based on characteristics like race, sex, religion, culture, and more.

Prejudice

When people hold prejudicial attitudes toward others, they tend to view everyone with the defining characteristic as being "all the same." They paint every individual who holds specific characteristics or beliefs with a very broad brush and fail to look at each person as a unique individual.

<ul><li>Ageism, such as believing that someone is "too old" or "too young" to work in a particular role or participate in a specific activity.</li><li>Classism, which may include having a negative belief about someone based on their income or looking down on someone because they are "poor" or a member of the working class.</li><li>Homophobia, often defined as feeling a sense of discomfort, fear, distrust, or hatred for people who are members of the LGBTQ+ community.</li><li>Nationalism, which involves believing that the interests of your state's group are more important than those of other groups.</li></ul>

Types of Prejudice

<ul><li>Racism, which involves having a negative attitude toward members of a certain racial or ethnic group rooted in systems of power and oppression.</li><li>Religious prejudice, which involves feeling negatively toward someone because of their religious beliefs, practices, or ideologies.</li><li>Sexism, which involves holding certain stereotypes or beliefs about someone based on their sex or gender.</li><li>Xenophobia, which involves disliking or fearing someone who the person considers "foreign" or "strange," often in the context of their native country.</li></ul>

Develop empathy for members of other groups.By imagining themselves in the same situation, people are able to think about how they would react and gain a greater understanding of other people's actions.

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Prejudice involves having negative attitudes and stereotyped beliefs about members of a group. Learn why prejudice forms and how to overcome it.

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Everyone tries to market themselves as someone they are not. That's why relying on first impressions is a shitty way of making judgments.The best way is to look at their actions and wait until you gather enough real-life data.Making assumptions without the right data will never give you an accurate analysis of a person.

First Impressions Can Be Delusional

Admire people and learn from them. But don’t become someone’s blind follower.The element of honesty is what separates blind following from admiration.Honesty removes the fake image of perfection from your eyes. Instead, you see ordinary, accessible people with flaws and struggles, just like you. That’s why you admire them, for their reality.

Admire, Don’t Follow

When you see perfect people online, you realize that you lack something they don’t, which causes self-doubt.The thing is, you don’t have any real-life data about them. You have no idea what they are like in real life.In real life, people aren’t perfect. People have so many flaws that even they aren’t aware of.

Perfection Only Exists Online

Getting depressed or motivated by rejection only means that you are desperate for another person’s approval, which you definitely shouldn’t be.Rejections have nothing to do with you. It is you who has to decide your self-worth. Nobody knows “you” more than you.

Rejections Are Normal

You never stop chasing those things that make you happy or give you immense joy. Once you get something pleasurable, you crave more.Happiness doesn’t last for eternity. Therefore, one should continually strive for self-satisfaction. The search for self-satisfaction gives us peace of mind and happiness as a product.

Stop Chasing Happiness

Specialness is something you earn. If you need somebody else to tell you that you are special, then you have not done anything to earn it. People aren’t qualified enough to decide whether someone is special or not.Specialness should be the feeling felt on upgrading in life after mastering a skill.

Specialness Is Earned

Everything you’ve learned so far comes from someone telling you how to feel and what to think. If you want to become intelligent, you have to admit that you don’t know anything or that what you know is probably wrong.Avoid blindly following beliefs and learn to question. Wrong beliefs make you stupid; it’s the right ones that set you free.

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These ideas are not intended to teach but to make you think.

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Don't face complex issues head-on; first understand simple ideas deeply. Clear the clutter and expose what's really important. Be brutally honest about what you know and don't know.Then see what's missing, identify the gaps, and fill them in. Let go of bias, prejudice, and preconceived notions. Rock-solid understanding is the foundation for success.

Understand Deeply

"﻿﻿I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

Fail to succeed. Intentionally get it wrong to inevitably get it even more right. Mistakes are great teachers -they highlight unforeseen opportunities and holes in your understanding. They also show you which way to turn next, and they ignite your imagination.

Make Mistakes

﻿“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Never pretend to know more than you do. Don’t build on ambiguity and ignorance. When you don’t know something, admit it as quickly as possible and immediately take action — ask a question.Ideas are in the air - the right questions will bring them out and help you see connections that otherwise would have been invisible.

Raise Questions

﻿﻿“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

﻿"﻿We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there."

Look back to see where ideas came from and then look ahead to discover where those ideas may lead. A new idea is a beginning, not an end. Ideas are rare – milk them. Following the consequences of small ideas can result in big payoffs.

Follow the Flow of Ideas

﻿Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied,"By thinking about it all the time."

You can always improve, grow, and extract more out of your education, yourself, and the way you live your life.Change is the universal constant that allows you to get the most out of living and learning.

Change

﻿﻿“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”

Offers real-life stories, items, and methods that allow for a deeper understanding of any issue, provide the power to use failure as a step toward success, and develop a habit of creating probing questions.

Simple but powerful strategies for increasing your success by improving your thinking The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking. The idea is simple: You can learn how to think far better by adopting specific strategies. Brilliant people aren't a special breed—they just use their minds differently. By using the straightforward and thought-provoking techniques in The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, you will regularly find imaginative solutions to difficult challenges, and you will discover new ways of looking at your world and yourself—revealing previously hidden opportunities. The book offers real-life stories, explicit action items, and concrete methods that allow you to attain a deeper understanding of any issue, exploit the power of failure as a step toward success, develop a habit of creating probing questions, see the world of ideas as an ever-flowing stream of thought, and embrace the uplifting reality that we are all capable of change. No matter who you are, the practical mind-sets introduced in the book will empower you to realize any goal in a more creative, intelligent, and effective manner. Filled with engaging examples that unlock truths about thinking in every walk of life, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking is written for all who want to reach their fullest potential—including students, parents, teachers, businesspeople, professionals, athletes, artists, leaders, and lifelong learners. Whenever you are stuck, need a new idea, or want to learn and grow, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking will inspire and guide you on your way.

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"If you want to become world-class good all you need to do is put in 10,000 hours."Why It’s Wrong:<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">It focuses on the quantity of time practicing, not the quality of the practice – and not all practice is equally helpful.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">It leads to a misconception that anyone can become an expert in a given area by putting in the time.</li></ol>What to Do Instead:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify"><a href="http://thepowermoves.com/deep-work/">Deep Work</a></li><li class="ql-align-justify"><a href="http://thepowermoves.com/the-talent-code/">The Talent Code</a></li><li class="ql-align-justify"><a href="http://thepowermoves.com/mastery-robert-greene-summary/">Mastery</a></li></ul>

Myth – The 10,000 Hour Rule

"Repeat yourself a mantra and you will eventually come to believe it and embody it."The Truth:"We have found that merely repeating positive statements to yourself does not raise mood or achievement very much, if at all.", says ​psychologist Martin Seligman, one of the founders of <a href="http://thepowermoves.com/best-positive-psychology-books/">positive psychology</a>What To Do:<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Work to improve yourself to the point where you receive (real) positive feedback from others.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Challenge your negative thoughts, “talk back” to them with well-reasoned arguments.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Ask yourself questions and then force yourself to come up with positive answers.</li></ol>

Myth – Incantations

"The brain can rewire and change itself, and that means that you can learn anything."The Self-Help Lie:<ul><li>There is no talent, only effort. </li><li>Since the brain is plastic, you can learn anything and you can get good at anything. </li></ul>The Truth:The brain is plastic… Quite a bit. But that doesn’t mean it can rewire itself limitlessly.What To Do:<ul><li>You can improve on pretty much anything.</li><li>You are also better off choosing fields where you have a natural affinity for.</li></ul>

Myth – Brain Plasticity

"Most meaning of human communication is nonverbal, so you can forget about the actual words."The Truth:This is what, in a nutshell, the Mehrabian study tells us:"﻿When it comes to feelings and atittudes, we get most of our cues of the speaker’s intent from non-verbal sources. When the two are in conflict, we give precedene to non-verbals."That’s the truth of the study and it cannot be generalized outside of feelings and attitudes.

Myth – Only 7% of Communication is Verbal

"IQ doesn’t matter, it’s all about how you understand and get along with people."The Truth:<ul><li>Travis Bradberry, author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, found out that EI rises until mid-level management but then decreases at CEO level.</li><li>Hence, if we measure “success” as the “ability to climb hierarchical structures in business organizations”, then the claim that EI is 80% of success is blatantly not true.</li></ul>

Myth – EI Is 80% Of Success

"If you focus on positives you will be happier and more successful. If you focus on the negative you will be unhappier."The Truth:<ul><li><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126111/">Frederickson and Losada</a> found out that too many positives become harmful above a certain threshold (11:1).</li><li>Research shows that thinking about the worst-case scenario can help people to manage their anxiety and lower the pressure.</li></ul>

Myth – Focus Only on Positives

Once the ratio hit about 11 to 1, positive emotions began doing more harm than good. Beyond that balance of positive-to-negative, Life becomes a festival of Panglossian cluelessness, where self-delusion suffocates self-improvement.Some negativity (…) is essential to offer us feedback on our performance﻿

"To feel better and live fully, you must let out all negative emotions."The Truth:There is plenty of evidence that venting your anger actually only makes you more angry and aggressive and increases the negative consequences of anger.

Myth – Release Anger

"You become what you think of. Force yourself to think positive and you’re good."The Truth:<ul><li>Research shows that switching to a good mood when we’re normal is easy.</li><li>When we’re anxious or stressed and we “force” ourselves to feel good is that we fail.</li><li>When we’re already down and we fail to switch to happy, we feel even worse and powerless.</li></ul>The Solution:<ol><li>Accept the idea that it’s OK not to be always happy.</li><li>If you want to switch mood, getting other people to help and/or changing the environment can be more effective.</li></ol>

Myth – Force Yourself Into Positive States

"To be happy, you just need to smile."The Lie:This was actually backed by a famous study originally called in psychology the “facial feedback hypothesis” (<a href="http://datacolada.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Strack-et-al-1988-cartoons.pdf">Strack Et Al., 1988</a>).The Truth:A much larger successive study failed to replicate its results (<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691616674458">Wagenmakers Et Al., 2016</a>).

Myth – Smile And You’re Happy

"The more you visualize yourself winning, the closer you get to actually winning."The Truth:<ul><li>Thinking about goals increases the number of times people thought of those goals and decreased the amount of actual work.</li><li>Research shows that people who used visualization to envision themselves studying instead of getting an A not only performed better, but also experienced less stress and anxiety.</li></ul>What To Do<ul><li>Remind yourself that work trumps visualization.</li><li>Don’t visualize yourself too much with the gold medal but also focus on the process.</li></ul>

Myth – Visualize Winning

"If you think often enough and with enough conviction about what you want you can attract it in your life."The Truth:From a psychological perspective, this notion has some merit but there is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought)">no empirical scientific evidence</a> supporting the law of attraction, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience.

Myth – Law of Attraction

"A survey of Yale’s class of 1953 found out that people who wrote down their goals out-earned all the rest by several orders of magnitude."The Truth: Some people looked for the source of this study. And there was none.Finally, <a href="https://ask.library.yale.edu/faq/175224">Yale University itself</a> came out saying a survey on goal setting was never conducted.

Myth – Goal Setting in Yale

"The more confident and the higher your self esteem, the better off you are."The Truth:That’s not wholly wrong. High self-esteem is good.But only if accompanied by a <a href="http://thepowermoves.com/develop-growth-mindset/">growth mindset</a> and an <a href="http://thepowermoves.com/the-antifragile-ego/">antifragile ego</a>.Paradoxically, the higher your self-esteem, the more dangers you see in your external environment.

Myth – High Self-Esteem

﻿﻿Violence ensues when people feel that their favorable views of themselves are threatened or disputed by others.As a result, people whose self-esteem is high but lacks a firm basis in genuine accomplishment are especially prone to be violence because they are most likely to have their narcissistic bubble burst.

Self-help can be life changing. But not when it's spreading lies and unscientific BS. This post share the biggest self-help myths and self-help lies.

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Dreams have been responsible for some major creative and scientific discoveries in the course of human history.No longer dismissed by psychologists as random neuron firings or meaningless fantasies, dreams are now considered an ongoing thought process that just happens to occur while we are asleep.

Dreams

Lucid dreams are when you know that you’re dreaming while you’re asleep.You’re aware that the events flashing through your brain aren’t really happening. But the dream feels vivid and real. You may even be able to control how the action unfolds, as if you’re directing a movie in your sleep.Studies suggest that about half of people may have had at least one lucid dream.

Lucid Dreams

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.

Sometimes lucid dreams happen spontaneously and you don’t have to work towards it. But if you want to consciously make it work for you then there are certain techniques to follow:<ul><li>Reality testing</li><li>Dream diary</li><li>Wake-back-to-bed</li><li>Mnemonic induction of lucid dreams (MILD)</li></ul>

How to Lucid Dream

This is when you pause at different times of the day to see whether you’re dreaming.You can try to do something impossible, like push your finger through your palm or inhale through a closed mouth. Or you can do something that's usually hard to do in a dream, like read a page in a book.

Reality Checking

When you write down your dreams, you’re forced to remember what happens during each dream. It’s said to help you recognize dreamsigns and enhance awareness of your dreams.Log your dreams as soon as you wake up. It’s also recommended to read your dream journal often.

Dream Diary

Wake back to bed (WBTB) involves entering REM sleep while you’re still conscious.To WBTB:<ol><li>Set an alarm for five hours after your bedtime.</li><li>Go to sleep as usual.</li><li>When the alarm goes off, stay up for 30 minutes. Enjoy a quiet activity like reading.</li><li>Fall back asleep.</li></ol>

Wake back to bed (WBTB)

To use the MILD technique:<ol><li>As you fall asleep, think of a recent dream.</li><li>Identify a “dreamsign,” or something that’s irregular or strange in the dream. An example is the ability to fly.</li><li>Think about returning to the dream. Acknowledge that the dreamsign only happens when you dream.</li><li>Tell yourself, "The next time I dream, I want to remember that I am dreaming." Recite the phrase in your head.</li></ol>

Mnemonic induction of lucid dreams (MILD)

<ul><li>Less anxiety. When you’re aware that you’re in a dream, you can shape the story and the ending. That might serve as therapy for people who have nightmares, teaching them how to control their dreams.</li><li>Better motor skills. Visualizing physical movements in lucid dream can increase the actual ability to do them.</li><li>Improved problem-solving. Lucid dreams can help people solve problems that deal with creativity.</li><li>More creativity. Some people taking part in lucid dream studies were able to come up with new ideas or insights, sometimes with the help of characters in their dreams.</li></ul>

Benefits of Lucid Dreams

Lucid dreaming is a phenomenon but isn’t uncommon. Some people can have very vivid dreams and even control their actions in them. Learn the latest research, and how you can potentially teach yourself to lucid dream.

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A state of conscious awareness resulting from living in the moment is not sufficient for creativity to come about.To be creative, you need to have, or be trained in, the ability to observe, notice, and attend to phenomena that pass your mind’s eye.

Meditation and Creativity

1️⃣ Focused attention<ul><li>It stresses concentrating on a single object, such as breathing, and ignoring other stimuli. </li><li>It is strongly related to convergent thinking, which is important for narrowing options and formulating a workable solution.</li></ul>2️⃣ Open-monitoring<ul><li>It involves observing and noting phenomena in the present moment and keeping attention flexible and unrestricted.</li><li>It's far more effective in stimulating divergent thinking, a key driver of creativity</li></ul>

Approaches used in Mindfulness meditation

The ability to observe is closely related to openness to experience, a personality trait that several studies have shown to be one of the most robust indicators of creative success.In Open-monitoring meditation, the individual is open to perceive and observe any sensation or thought without focusing on a concept in the mind or a fixed item; therefore attention is flexible and unrestricted.

Observation

Research shows that some key elements of meditation stimulate creativity, and others may not.

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Flow state is a very powerful state of mind where you are extremely productive and also feel great.
You don’t have to force yourself to work hard. Rather, it seems to go automatically. It seems as if you are ‘flowing’ through your work.
An example is a gamer spending hours behind the computer without feeling bored, fatigued, or hungry.

The Flow State

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

You can get into flow state only when you can focus with undivided attention for at least 10–15 minutes.Whenever you get distracted it takes on average 25 minutes to gain back your full attention on the task at hand. This is because of something called ‘attention residue’, which implies that some of your attention is still left behind at the previous task or distraction that you were dealing with.

Eliminate All External Distractions

Whenever you experience stress or have too much on your mind, it’ll be incredibly hard to keep your mind focused on your task at hand — and therefore it’ll be impossible to reach flow state.<ul><li>Give morning and evening journaling a try.</li><li>Meditate for at least 10 minutes each day.</li></ul>

Eliminate Internal Distractions

Getting into flow state is hard if you are low on energy.Your 'Biological Prime Time' is the time of the day when you have the most energy, and therefore the greatest potential to be productive. To <a href="https://alifeofproductivity.com/3-ways-to-calculate-your-peak-energy-time-of-day/">calculate</a> yours, chart your energy levels for at least three weeks.Another option would be to enter flow state right after you took a break of about 15-30 minutes.

Work At Your BPT (Biological Prime Time)

Music can actually help you become highly focused and, therefore, highly productive.Especially when you listen to music on repeat (or repetitive type music such as techno, classical music or trance) it’ll be easier to reach a state of flow.

Listen To (The Right Kind Of) Music

When it isn’t fully clear about what exactly you’re going to work on, it’ll be highly unlikely that you reach flow state.Therefore be very clear about what exactly you’re going to work on.

Work On One Very Specific Task

Flow state can only be achieved when an activity is<ul><li>Challenging enough to keep your brain interested.</li><li>You’re skilled enough to tackle the challenge without it being too difficult.</li></ul>

Balance Challenge & Skills

Whenever you lack clarity about what you want to accomplish, your brain will struggle to get into optimum concentration. Therefore, clearly set out what you’d like to accomplish to avoid this mental hurdle.Procrastination loves it when this lack of clarity exists, as it’ll try to push you towards quitting earlier or switch to easier tasks instead.

Have A Clear Outcome or Goal

If you consume up to 200 milligrams of caffeine (about 2 cups of coffee), it has been proven that you can<ul><li>Focus more intensely. </li><li>Work for longer without giving up. </li><li>Have a better short-term memory.</li></ul>All of this will help you in reaching flow state.Preferably, don’t drink coffee more than 2 cups per day and don’t consume after 17:00, as this will impact the quality of your sleep.

Strategically Consume Caffeine

Drinking enough water makes sure the energy production of the brain is functioning well.While not drinking enough leads to lower energy production, leaving you to feel foggy, fatigued and not sharp. All of which leads to heavily decreased productivity levels and make it harder to reach flow state.

Stay Hydrated

Do something special each time before you sit down to go into flow state.Whether it’s repeating a special sentence or affirmation, taking a few deep breaths or anything else — do that same exact thing each time you want to get into flow state. Over time, this will help you create a mental cue for your brain.

Create A Mental Cue

Think about the last time where you were engaged in an activity and you simply lost track of time.. You were focused like a ninja, you felt amazing and it seemed as if there was nothing else on this…

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