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Inner strengths such as happiness and resilience come mainly from positive experiences. But unless we pay mindful, sustained attention to them, most positive experiences flow through our brains like water through a sieve. They’re momentarily pleasant but leave little lasting value in terms of changing neural structure. The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones.
Hardwiring Happiness
Rick Hanson
Here is a wonderful fact: your body adapts to the position that you assume for most of the day. So, if you sit and allow your back to round forward (flexion) or arch backward (overextension), your tissues and joints will form a sort of cast around that posture, making it difficult for you to get into better positions later.
Deskbound
Kelly Starrett, Juliet Starrett, and Glen Cordoza
By deploying a blanket policy of doubling these initial estimates, you can counter this instinct toward unjustified optimism. The result: plans that can be completed at a more leisurely pace. The fear here, of course, is that by doubling these timelines, you’ll drastically reduce what you accomplish. But your original plans were never realistic or sustainable in the first place. A key tenet of slow productivity is that grand achievement is built on the steady accumulation of modest results over time. This path is long. Pace yourself.
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
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