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Tag: learning

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    Older and Younger

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    1–2 minutes

    You are always older and younger: forgetting either shortens your life.
    Your body is more fragile, your will gives out quicker, but going into overdrive (overcoming) blocks your child-like curiosity, humor, and empathy… for yourself.We often embody the wrong age at the wrong time.

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    Skills over Debate

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    While others engage with criticism and gossip, spend your time learning skills.
    Take feedback, but don’t argue, don’t ruminate: just work on yourself.

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    Brain Training

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    Almost no one uses metrics to guide themselves in cognitive labor.
    It is normal to train your body for specialized results. Why do we not measure and track our brain fitness equally?

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    Exhaustion leads to productivity

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    Exhaustion can lead to a dumb form of productivity simply because you are too tired to transition.
    You won’t learn anything and you will make mistakes, but you do get to check all the little boxes on your to-do list.

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    Retain curiosity for simplicity

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    Many mistakes are made because we skip the basics of reality and perception.

    Try to stay curious and start off engaging at the most basic level. When you skip forward into your complex biases and preferences, it is all about you, not reality.

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    Forgiving the shape of wisdom

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    We can use the words to parrot the phrases shaped like wisdom.
    To entwine the wisdom with your soul, how many repetitions and reflections are needed? We can all be forgiven for a bit of mimicry when finding our footing on the path.

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    Emotional trojans

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    Thoughts are the trojan horse that smuggle in emotions. Emotions are temporary: they are real, but not really you. They can capture you and own you.
    You can stare down the emotion and rob the thought of it’s emotive force just by being aware of the trick.

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    Caring is turbulence

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    Fluctuating moods come from caring about others: to connect is to risk stability.

    Simplistically, you can sit on the shore, drown, or learn to surf. The problem is that surfing requires an inhuman mastery of persistent balance.

    There must be an effortless way to do all three simultaneously: collapse the wave.

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    You create your state

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    Things affect you because you decide to care: you made it about you. Most of your cares are small and serve no one, not even yourself.

    Equally, you can let nothing affect you and become a stone. How boring.

    Be aware, be particular.

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    Productivity can displace the goal

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    Productivity is necessary, but don’t forget why you are being productive.
    Why are you trying so hard? To live well? You can do that right now.
    Don’t let the "to do" block you from "being" and "becoming."