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In 2015, researchers at the University of Southern California made a fascinating discovery. Not all mistakes activate the painful anterior insula. Sometimes they activate the pleasurable ventral striatum. What determines which area lights up? It turns out that when mistakes are combined with new learning, we experience them as rewarding. The wisdom we gain allows us to see new opportunities for avoiding mistakes and succeeding in the future. Turning negative feedback into corrective action is rewarding for another reason: it makes failure feel temporary.

Decoding Greatness

Ron Friedman

One long aerobic capacity–building workout each week. Do this at Zone 1 intensity if your AeT heart rate is within 10 percent of your LT heart rate. Do this at Zone 2 if you suffer from ADS (Aerobic Deficiency Syndrome, see page 46) and your AeT heart rate is more than 10 percent below your LT heart rate. This should leave you tired from the duration, not the intensity. This one workout should be 25 percent of the weekly aerobic training volume.

Training for the Uphill Athlete

Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet

Others as well had come to see them as more than mere eccentrics. Life on the Outer Banks was harsh. Making ends meet was a constant struggle. Hard workers were greatly admired and in the words of John T. Daniels, the Wrights were “two of the workingest boys” ever seen, “and when they worked, they worked. . . . They had their whole heart and soul in what they were doing.”

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

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