An author who interviewed 200 world-class performers discovered that 80% perform some sort of meditation/relaxation routine. In a more general sense successful people are mindful about how they spend their time. “Everyone else has an agenda for your time, so if you’re in a reactive mode, if you’re playing defense instead of offense, you’re going to get at best, average results”.
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May
May
The 50th law is a book about finding motivation to do the things we want to do, how to approach the world and the things that kick us in the ass. Here’s the summary and several awesome quotes from the book.
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This is probably the best post here so far. If there is one thing you read here, let this be it. I think about this everyday, because it is THAT important.
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May
May
Ten years seems like a really long time. But ask anyone how fast the last ten years passed by and most will tell you they zapped quickly. Learn a way to design the life you want. As chess prodigy Garry Kasparov says, like in chess, in life, you gotta have a plan, a main direction where you know you’re slowly working towards to.
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To read a book or not to read a book? How to quickly read something? These are questions I aim to answer in this post. Here are a few techniques for deciding whether it is worth it to invest time into reading it, and how to efficiently go about doing any long text, whether it be a book or long article.
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The most interesting rules of success taken from various interviews that highly successful people have given over many years. I watched almost all of the videos from Evan Carmichael’s YouTube channel as of March 2016 and took the ones I found the most interesting ones. Enjoy: Efficacy > Efficiency. Pick the right thing to do from the […]
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Simplify & Focus. Have you ever bought a new computer with such complicated new features that you couldn’t get it to work? Complexity is a problem in our modern world because humans, like all life on the planet, prefer simplicity. Nature doesn’t choose the most complicated way to solve a problem. Rather, it finds the […]
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Dec
Dec
If there was a secret on how to learn anything faster and remember it this would it. Learning is affected by 3 key factors, without which it is impossible. Let’s go. Time The longer we spend learning any subject, the more proficient we will be at it. The longer we study a given topic, the more we […]
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You came here to learn faster. Well, the place where you learn, the learning environment, believe it or not, plays a crucial role in your performance. In this case we ought to maximize the things that help it, and minimize the things that don’t. Simple cliche, but it’s perfectly applicable. Now there isn’t a recipe […]
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Dec
Dec
This book is a gem of good information. It’s a fascinating exploration of what science says about the most effective learning and memory techniques — shining light on the techniques that actually work and those that do not work.