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  • This means that you always feel on alert or fearful no matter what activity you are doing. This can be extremely distressing and get in the way of your daily life.
    Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) - Better Health Channel
  • If you gamble, you should expect to lose. Gambling should be budgeted as an expense, just like going out for dinner, and not considered a way to make money.
    Gambling - Better Health Channel
  • Earlier, we also saw that our intuition is poor at working out what will make us happy. This is all because our untrained gut instinct makes lots of mistakes, and in these situations it’s hard to train it to do better.
    The evidence on how to find the right career for you - 80,000 Hours
  • Growing up, I did not have much to pride myself on. All I could do was dream, imagine, and fantasize. Dream of being other people. Dream of being an incredible dancer. Dream of being an astounding drummer. Dream of being an amazing computer scientist. Dream of being anything at all, but myself.
    Moqu Alqudah '23 · Connecticut College
  • High school life, especially for my generation, is hyper-focused on the approval of others.
    Luke Sparreo '24 · Connecticut College
  • You may have to throw things away and redo them. You won't necessarily have to, but you have to be willing to. And that can take some effort; when there's something you need to redo, status quo bias and laziness will combine to keep you in denial about it. To beat this ask: If I'd already made the change, would I want to revert to what I have now?
    How to Do Great Work
  • Be the one who puts things out there rather than the one who sits back and offers sophisticated-sounding criticisms of them. "It's easy to criticize" is true in the most literal sense, and the route to great work is never easy.
    How to Do Great Work
  • You have to be working hard in the normal way to benefit from this phenomenon, though. You can't just walk around daydreaming. The daydreaming has to be interleaved with deliberate work that feeds it questions.
    How to Do Great Work
  • The reason we're surprised is that we underestimate the cumulative effect of work. Writing a page a day doesn't sound like much, but if you do it every day you'll write a book a year. That's the key: consistency.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Try to finish what you start, though, even if it turns out to be more work than you expected. Finishing things is not just an exercise in tidiness or self-discipline. In many projects a lot of the best work happens in what was meant to be the final stage.
    How to Do Great Work
  • The trouble with planning is that it only works for achievements you can describe in advance. You can win a gold medal or get rich by deciding to as a child and then tenaciously pursuing that goal, but you can't discover natural selection that way.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Boldly chase outlier ideas, even if other people aren't interested in them — in fact, especially if they aren't.
    How to Do Great Work
  • We’re often not patient enough. We tend to move from one conservation fad to the next. We try something new, we get disappointed, and so we move on to something else, and we are once again overly optimistic about what we could achieve. What we should be doing is take more time to identify the issues and refine a promising approach until we make it work.
    Does it work to pay people not to cut the forest?
  • Perhaps, if your goal is to discover novel ideas, your motto should not be "do what you love" so much as "do what you're curious about."
    How to Think for Yourself
  • You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • They're willing to have anything in their heads, from highly speculative hypotheses to (apparent) tautologies, but on subjects they care about, everything has to be labelled with a carefully considered degree of belief.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • You know that some accepted ideas will later turn out to be wrong. See if you can guess which. The end goal is not to find flaws in the things you're told, but to find the new ideas that had been concealed by the broken ones.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • When I read history I do it not just to learn what happened, but to try to get inside the heads of people who lived in the past. How did things look to them?
    How to Think for Yourself
  • Plus if you're part of several different worlds, you can often import ideas from one to another.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • It will decrease the influence of your immediate peers if you have several other groups of peers.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • it teaches you what to avoid. If you later find yourself in a situation that makes you think "this is like high school," you know you should get out. [2]
    How to Think for Yourself
  • earing other people say surprising things will encourage you to, and to think of more.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • imply to be less aware what conventional beliefs are.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • Conventional-minded people don't like to think of themselves as conventional-minded. And in any case, it genuinely feels to them as if they make up their own minds about everything. It's just a coincidence that their beliefs are identical to their peers'.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • because it's one of the most important things to think about when you're deciding what kind of work you want to do. Do you want to do the kind of work where you can only win by thinking differently from everyone else? I suspect most people's unconscious mind will answer that question before their conscious mind has a chance to. I know mine does.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • to be an administrator, for example — all you need is the first half. All you need is to be right. It's not essential that everyone else be wrong.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • You have to do something that sounds to most other people like a bad idea, but that you know isn't — like writing software for a tiny computer used by a few thousand hobbyists, or starting a site to let people rent airbeds on strangers' floors.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • But if we flip the question, and start inquiring into the other ingredients in new ideas that it implies must exist, we can mine this gap for discoveries about discovery.
    Beyond Smart
  • As in many other fields, that level of reworking is easier to contemplate once you've had a lot of practice.
    Beyond Smart
  • And that "by" is deliberate: you don't think of the ideas first, and then merely write them down. There is a kind of thinking that one does by writing, and if you're clumsy at writing, or don't enjoy doing it, that will get in your way if you try to do this kind of thinking. [4]
    Beyond Smart
  • an obsessive interest in a particular topic. And this can definitely be cultivated.
    Beyond Smart
  • There are a lot of genuinely smart people who don't achieve very much.
    Beyond Smart
  • Rất ít người chịu khó suy nghĩ về những yếu tố căn bản và thường hay biện hộ rằng họ làm điều đó bởi vì “chúng luôn được làm như vậy”, hoặc vì chưa có ai làm điều đó, nên nó nhất định không tốt. Đây là một kiểu suy nghĩ rất buồn cười, và bạn cần phải xây dựng lập luận dựa trên những nguyên tắc cơ bản.
    FIRST PRINCIPLE – TƯ DUY NGUYÊN BẢN: CÁCH ĐỂ TẠO RA SỰ “SÂU SẮC”
  • Cuối cùng thì, chính suy nghĩ của chúng ta về mình là thứ trói buộc khả năng của chúng ta.
    FIRST PRINCIPLE – TƯ DUY NGUYÊN BẢN: CÁCH ĐỂ TẠO RA SỰ “SÂU SẮC”
  • Thế giới hiện nay có rất nhiều cơ hội, và việc học tập đã “phẳng” hơn rất nhiều.
    FIRST PRINCIPLE – TƯ DUY NGUYÊN BẢN: CÁCH ĐỂ TẠO RA SỰ “SÂU SẮC”
  • Cách tiếp cận của Musk được xuất phát từ những cái “đúng”, chứ không phải từ cảm tính. Điều cốt lõi là chúng ta không biết nhiều như chúng ta nghĩ, vì thế nên cảm tính không có độ chính xác ca
    FIRST PRINCIPLE – TƯ DUY NGUYÊN BẢN: CÁCH ĐỂ TẠO RA SỰ “SÂU SẮC”
  • Rất ít người chịu khó suy nghĩ
    FIRST PRINCIPLE – TƯ DUY NGUYÊN BẢN: CÁCH ĐỂ TẠO RA SỰ “SÂU SẮC”
  • Mặc dù mọi quan điểm và những cách thức tư duy khác nhau đều giúp bạn một phần nào đó trong cuộc sống, tuy nhiên, nếu làm dụng suy nghĩ của người khác, bạn sẽ tự “trói buộc”suy nghĩ của mình.
    FIRST PRINCIPLE – TƯ DUY NGUYÊN BẢN: CÁCH ĐỂ TẠO RA SỰ “SÂU SẮC”
  • The part of the tentacle that only feels comfortable when the future feels predictable will reject the exact kinds of paths that may generate the long-term freedom another part of the tentacle longs for. The side of you that wants a stress-free life doesn’t get along very well with the side of you that thirsts to be hang gliding off a cliff in Namibia like Richard Branson.
    How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why
  • but this suggests that when you have a night of long and intense dreaming, you might also just have put to memory all those sad, scary, or disappointing moments of your day. Sweet dreams might not be all that they are cracked up to be.
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • This has potentially useful implications for learning and memorizing information. If we want to remember something, we are much more likely to do so if we associate it with a positive experience. So, if you want to remember an important date, eat some chocolate as you look at it.
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • It seems that when we have pleasurable experiences, the parts of our brain responsible for the feeling of reward — the hippocampus and the ventro-temporal-limbic system – are reactivated during our night’s sleep, and so our brains store these experiences as long-term memories.
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • The results showed that people were much likelier to remember the details of the games that gave them a rewarding experience of victory.
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • the brain to store as memory those experiences that have a greater positive or negative emotional association — what is called “affective relevance” — because it will help guide our future behavior.
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • The first observation is that memories are more likely to be stored if they potentially aid an individual’s survival.
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • We hardly need science to tell us that everything feels a little harder, tasks take a little longer, and everyone seems a little more annoying when we have not had enough sleep. For those of us who have gone days without sleep, the world becomes hazy and surreal, seen through the febrile, distorted mind of the sleepless.
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • Sweet dreams might not be all that they are cracked up to be.
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • when we enter this NREM stage, we “manage the finite storage space within the brain,”
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • all-night cramming session
    Study discovers how one sleep stage reactivates memories
  • Reputational damage can be significant when workers’ problems become public. This can cause a reduction in talent acquisition and criticism from shareholders and customers
    Working Time • Business & Human Rights Navigator