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Don’t dismiss meditation as a *“woowoo spiritual practice.”* Meditation has been proven to sharpen attention, enhance focus, manage stress, and reign in impulsiveness. **This simple practice creates real, physical changes in the parts of your brain that control willpower.**
I Have 10 Pieces of Willpower Wisdom to Share With You
Charlotte Grysolle
My career advice usually falls within the framework of doing the absolute minimum amount of work necessary to prevent starvation, and then doing something that’s not about money, completely outside of supporting structures, and not simply a matter of “consuming experience” with the remaining available time.
Why are people so puritanical about the Puritans? “Very simply,” Robinson writes, “it is a great example of our collective eagerness to disparage without knowledge or information about the thing disparaged, when the reward is the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved.”
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