If you are surrounded by fit people, you’re more likely to consider working out to be a common habit. If you’re surrounded by jazz lovers, you’re more likely to believe it’s reasonable to play jazz every day.
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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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If you can’t find a game where the odds are stacked in your favor, create one.
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Training and maintaining a high level of aerobic fitness, and doing it now, is essential to preserving this range of function in your later years.
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The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
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He decided to only give treats to the rats intermittently and, to his surprise, varying the delivery of food did not decrease behavior, but actually increased it.
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Effective negotiation is applied people smarts, a psychological edge in every domain of life: how to size someone up, how to influence their sizing up of you, and how to use that knowledge to get what you want.
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The key is to pick a strategy to which you can adhere but that also helps achieve your goals. This takes patience, some willpower, and a willingness to experiment.
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Negotiation serves two distinct, vital life functions—information gathering and behavior influencing—and includes almost any interaction where each party wants something from the other side.
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Monounsaturated fats, found in high quantities in extra virgin olive oil, macadamia nuts, and avocados (among other foods), do not have this effect, so I tend to push my patients to consume more of these, up to about 60 percent of total fat intake.
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Overestimate the attention you get from having nice stuff, and assume the attention you do get is a reflection of people admiring you versus them fantasizing about having what you have for themselves.
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The key is to tie your desired behavior into something you already do each day.
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Most senators are—how shall I put it—self-satisfied. They think the country will cease to exist without them. They think they are brand names, like Lululemon.
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The governing class is worried more about their problems than those of the voters who elected them.
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The leader leaves no option unexamined in an attempt to move all their options as close to the crisis site as possible.
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The Centenarian Decathlon is a framework I use to organize my patients’ physical aspirations for the later decades of their lives, especially their Marginal Decade.
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CALORIC RESTRICTION, or CR: eating less in total, but without attention to what is being eaten or when it’s being eaten
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I love dogs—they don’t judge, they don’t gossip, and they don’t lie—and I knew Biden did too.
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The real value of anything depends on what vantage point you’re looking at it from.
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Thirty years ago, while I felt like that could be done, I didn’t know how. Now I do.
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In time, we will have many more sensors like this that will allow us to tailor our therapies and interventions far more quickly and precisely.
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Labeling is a simple, versatile skill that lets you reinforce a good aspect of the negotiation, or diffuse a negative one.
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It is beyond backwards that we do not treat hyperinsulinemia like a bona fide endocrine disorder of its own.
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Empathy is not about being nice or agreeing with the other side. It’s about understanding them.
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