The value of the $20, just like the value of the coffee mug, didn’t change. But your perspective of it did.
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
We need them both; scientist and poet Jeffrey Burton Russell writes that “as the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor was close to sacrament.”
BRAIDING SWEETGRASSNon-Fiction
Now we have a tool to help us understand our own individual carbohydrate tolerance and how we respond to specific foods. This is called continuous glucose monitoring, or CGM, and it has become a very important part of my armamentarium in recent years.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
Not exactly Star Trek, but the point right now is just to successfully exist.
A CITY ON MARSNon-Fiction
When we embrace negotiating’s transformative possibilities, we learn how to get what we want and how to move others to a better place. Negotiation is the heart of collaboration.
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By indicating her willingness to work but asking for help finding a way to do so, she left her deadbeat customer with no choice but to put her needs ahead of everything else. And she got paid.
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Stress prompts an elevation in cortisol, which in turn stimulates the liver to drip more glucose into circulation. This tells me that we need to address her stress levels and probably also her sleep quality.
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“That’s right,” he said. With those words Brandon embraced the reality of what was holding him back. Once he understood why he was trying to knock down every blocker, he changed course.
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By sprinkling triggers throughout your surroundings, you increase the odds that you’ll think about your habit throughout the day. Make sure the best choice is the most obvious one.
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If you want to predict where you’ll end up in life, all you have to do is follow the curve of tiny gains or tiny losses, and see how your daily choices will compound ten or twenty years down the line.
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Self-control is a short-term strategy, not a long-term one. You may be able to resist temptation once or twice, but it’s unlikely you can muster the willpower to override your desires every time.
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Denying barriers or negative influences gives them credence; get them into the open.
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The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
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What is age, really? When you love somebody the way we love each other, age is just the last thing that matters. It’s meaningless!
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This raises another possibility: that the condition that Alois Alzheimer observed in 1906 was not the same condition as the Alzheimer’s disease that afflicts millions of people around the world.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
It appears, then, that the presence of amyloid-beta plaques may be neither necessary for the development of Alzheimer’s disease nor sufficient to cause it.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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There’s plenty of research that now validates the passage of time as one of the most important tools for a negotiator. When you slow the process down, you also calm it down.
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I think of zone 2 as akin to building a foundation for a house. Most people will never see it, but it is nevertheless important work that helps support virtually everything else we do, in our exercise regimen and in our lives.
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Tracking can become its own form of reward. It feels good to cross an item off your to-do list, to complete an entry in your workout log, or to mark an X on the calendar.
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“No” is not failure. Used strategically it’s an answer that opens the path forward.
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To make bad habits unsatisfying, your best option is to make them painful in the moment. Creating a habit contract is a straightforward way to do exactly that.
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The best way to ride a horse is in the direction in which it is going. Our job as persuaders is easier than we think. It’s not to get others believing what we say. It’s just to stop them unbelieving.
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