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  • Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else is Today

    Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else is Today
    Dec 25 2024
    RULE 4 COMPARE YOURSELF TO WHO YOU WERE YESTERDAY, NOT TO WHO SOMEONE ELSE IS TODAY THE INTERNAL CRITIC It was easier for people to be good at something when more of us lived in small, rural communities. Someone could be homecoming queen. Someone else could be spelling-bee champ, math whiz or basketball star. There were only one or two mechanics and a couple of teachers. In each of their domains, these local heroes had the opportunity to enjoy the serotonin-fuelled confidence of the victor. It may be for that reason that people who were born in small towns are statistically overrepresented among the eminent.
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    19 min
  • Treat yourself like someone you are responsibility for helping

    Treat yourself like someone you are responsibility for helping
    Dec 23 2024
    RULE 2 TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING WHY WON’T YOU JUST TAKE YOUR DAMN PILLS? Imagine that a hundred people are prescribed a drug. Consider what happens next. One- third of them won’t fill the prescription. 30 Half of the remaining sixty-seven will fill it, but won’t take the medication correctly. They’ll miss doses. They’ll quit taking it early. They might not even take it at all.
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    15 min
  • Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back

    Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back
    Dec 23 2024
    RULE 1 STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK LOBSTERS—AND TERRITORY If you are like most people, you don’t often think about lobsters 2—unless you’re eating one. However, these interesting and delicious crustaceans are very much worth considering. Their nervous systems are comparatively simple, with large, easily observable neurons, the magic cells of the brain. Because of this, scientists have been able to map the neural circuitry of lobsters very accurately. This has helped us understand the structure and function of the brain and behaviour of more complex animals, including human beings. Lobsters have more in common with you than you might think (particularly when you are feeling crabby—ha ha).
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    15 min