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Dr. Maya Shankar: How to Shape Your Identity & Goals
The Importance of Cognitive Closure
AI Key Takeaways
- Reducing the need for cognitive closure can lead to a boost in well-being and increased resilience.
- Anticipating future changes based on our present selves can lead to fear and misunderstandings about change.
- Big changes in our lives can have profound effects on us.
- The "end of history illusion" refers to the tendency to underestimate how much we will change in the future.
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Dr. Maya Shankar: How to Shape Your Identity & Goals
Change impacts not only our external environment but also us
AI Key Takeaways
- We tend to imagine how our present day selves will respond to future changes.
- Big changes in our lives can change us in profound ways.
- The end of history illusion suggests that we often fail to recognize our own personal growth and change over time.
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Dr. Maya Shankar: How to Shape Your Identity & Goals
Using a Third Person Perspective to Reframe Problems
AI Key Takeaways
- Taming mental chatter can be achieved using a distancing technique.
- Considering a problem from a third person perspective promotes objectivity and emotional distance.
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F*CK Law Of Attraction! - How To ACTUALLY BRAINWASH Yourself For Success | Hal Elrod
The Relationship Between Personal Development and Success
AI Key Takeaways
- Your level of success is directly linked to your level of personal development.
- The desire for level 10 success is innate in humans.
- Measuring positive, aspirational outcomes on a scale of 1 to 10 can help prioritize personal development.
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#669: Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living
Defining progress in terms of historical betterment
AI Key Takeaways
- The word progress can mean different things, it's a loaded term.
- Progress refers to the idea that overall, on average, this is a better place to live than at any time in the past.
- The 'Obama test' is a hypothetical scenario where one is randomly born at any time period and asked which time period they would choose to live in.
- Intuitively, people would choose to live in the current time period as it's the best time to be alive.
- There is a need to examine the currents and factors that allowed progress and if they're still operational.
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Someday Is Today: Achieve Your Goals And Live Without Regret - Matthew Dicks
The Joy of Pursuing Goals
AI Key Takeaways
- The speaker was robbed at gunpoint when he was 22
- The speaker felt regret, not fear or sadness or anger, during the incident
- The incident gave rise to a realization that the speaker had wasted time in life
- The incident resulted in 15 years of PTSD and other problems
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