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But what if you *knew* that with every single choice, however small, you’re tapping into that aMCC? Slowly but surely, you’re creating physical changes in your brain that will help you stick to your long-term goals and promises. **Treat every choice as an opportunity to strengthen your mental resilience.**
Small Choices, Big (Brain) Impact.
Charlotte Grysolle
Like I said, this all happens automatically but what’s really cool is that you can take conscious control of the process:
• By intentionally narrowing your visual field, you can increase alertness.
• By intentionally expanding your visual field, you can increase relaxation.
How and Why I Use Vision as a Productivity Tool
Charlotte Grysolle
Aristotle observes that the simple accumulation of capital
merits reproach because it concerns only bare life, and not the good life: “So some people believe that this is the task of household management, and go on thinking that they should maintain their store of money or increase it without limit. The reason they are so disposed, however, is that they are preoccupied with living, not with living well. And since their appetite for life is unlimited, they also want an unlimited amount of what sustains it.” Aristotle, Politics, trans. C.D.C. Reeve (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998), 17 (1257b)
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
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