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Using Science to Optimize Sleep, Learning & Metabolism
Best time to workout in the Day
AI Key Takeaways
- There is individual variation in optimal exercise timing
- Optimal exercise times correlate with body temperature fluctuations
- It is advantageous to exercise whenever possible
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#157 Carolyn Coughlin: Become A Better Listener
Ask "How could I be wrong?" increases our curiosity
AI Key Takeaways
- Taking other people's perspectives can help us to remove our blind spots,.
- Developing the habit of asking "how could I be wrong?" can increase our curiosity and prompt us to get more curious about other people's perspectives.
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Optimizing Workspace for Productivity, Focus, & Creativity
How to Use a Laptop to Focus on Work
AI Key Takeaways
- Looking at something directly in front of you is the best way to focus on it.
- Looking at something for too long can fatigue your eyes.
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How to Get Rich: Every Episode
Avoid lifestyle creep to get free
AI Key Takeaways
- People who are living far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgratding their life style just can't fathom.
- And I think that's very important.
- Like just a knot upgrade your life style all the time to maintain your freedom.
- And it just gives you freedom of operation.
- Once you make a little bit of money, you still want to be living like your old self, so that just the worry goes away.
- So don't run out to upbrad that house and life style and all that stuff. Lat' you goingto pa ousand dollars an hour.
- The problem is that when you go into a work life style like that, you don't just suddenly go from making 20 dollars an hour to making a thousand dollars an hour. That's a progression over a long career.
- And as that happens, one subtle problem is that you upgrade your life style as you make more and more money.
- And that upgrading of the life style ups what you consider to be wealth, and you stay in this wage slave trap.
- So i forget who said it, maybe it was nasin tolet, but he said, you know, the most dangerous things are heroine and a monthly salary, right?
- Because they are highly indictive.
- The way you want to get wealthy is you want to be poor and working and working and working.
- And this is,.
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Kevin Kelly On The Courage It Takes To Live Your Own Life
Don't aim to be the best, instead be the Only,
AI Key Takeaways
- Don't aim to be the best, aim to be the only person doing something
- Being unique and doing something no one else can do is the key to true genius
- Working on something that nobody has a name for increases the likelihood of a breakthrough
- Carving out your own niche requires courage and perseverance
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How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance
How to get rid of hiccups
AI Key Takeaways
- Hiccups are caused by a spasm of the phrenic nerve, and can be eliminated by inhaling three times in a row.
- This simple technique takes advantage of hyper-contracting the phrenic nerve to relieve the spasm.
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Science-Based Mental Training & Visualization for Improved Learning
Learning is not only strengthening connections but also weakening inappropriate connections
AI Key Takeaways
- Initial attempts to learn a new skill are generally uncoordinated but improve with practice
- Practice leads to a narrowing of movements and coordination in the brain and body
- This concept applies to both physical and cognitive skill acquisition
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The Tools You Need To Embrace Uncertainty | Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr
Should I Focus on One Thing at a Time?
AI Key Takeaways
- Instead of spending a lot of time planning a project, break it into little experiments to see what works
- Start small and focus on one aspect of the project at a time
- Research shows that focusing on one thing at a time is more effective than trying to do everything at once
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Cal Newport: Lifestyle Design, Slow Productivity and Contrarian Writing
What Everybody Should Be Doing, but Mostly Only Software People Do
AI Key Takeaways
- Everyone should be focusing on their bucket list of things, instead of worrying about other things.
- This will free up cognitive overload and make people more productive.
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#558 - Tim Urban - How To Take Charge Of Your Life's Direction
Finding the right work culture for you
AI Key Takeaways
- The roots of success in any industry are often the same: recruiting the right people, having a clear goal, reasoning from first principles, innovating, and being persistent. These principles are not specialized to one industry or another. Applying these principles can help achieve success in any industry. It's important to hire expertise to obtain different skills that the CEO doesn't have. Hard work and long hours are valid and can attract workaholics in a free market. Elon Musk's companies are like the military, NFL and political campaigns; they are not for everyone and it's important to filter out the people who don't want that environment. It's healthy to have companies catering to hardcore people. Nobody is forcing anyone to work there, and it's good to have a variety of work environments to choose from.
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How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance
Breath To Reduce Your Stress
AI Key Takeaways
- Cyclic sighing is an effective way to reduce stress and restore calm.
- One single physiological sigh of the sort that was described is the fastest way to reduce stress levels.
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