The brain learns and remembers best when focus is greatest. Video games focus attention and get us to repeat moves over and over, and so are powerful tutorials. That presents an opportunity for training the brain. from Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
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156/365 This is your life
This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time. ~ Tyler Durden, Fight Club
146/365 What life is about
There is no hope in the past. There is no solution to be found in the present. Nor will we be better off by jumping ahead into an imaginary future. The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the[…]
133/365 Between stimulus and response
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.” Quote of Viktor Frankl in “Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)” by Chade-Meng[…]
132/365 Always choose now
Yet the awareness of true reality is an experience, not an idea, that in fact requires a “radical refusal of thoughts” in favor of a simple state of attending to the moment. “Your purpose—the fullness of life—is just to be here now,” he says. “To be the space for whatever[…]
131/365 Pause, when insulted
Pause, when insulted, to consider whether what the insulter said is true. If it is, there is little reason to be upset. from “A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy“, by William B. Irvine
129/365 The three basic benefits of mind training
Any one of the three basic benefits of mind training—mental calm, mental clarity, and emotional resilience—is, by itself, life changing, and with practice all meditators can acquire all three. from Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within, by Chade-Meng Tan
128/365 Mastery of focus is a skill
The mastery of focus is a skill, which like any other takes discipline and effort to develop. from Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, by Winifred Gallagher
127/365 “Anyone can become angry – that is easy”
Anyone can become angry – that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy. Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
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