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Deliberately do something challenging (either moving or resisting) → Activate the aMCC → Grow size of aMCC over time → The easier it becomes to engage the aMCC → The more willpower and tenacity you can show in all other areas of your life.
Another Huberman-Induced Paradigm Shift.
Charlotte Grysolle
Of course, everything has gone wrong. A few weeks into coronavirus quarantine, a reader who had cleaned out his home according to the decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s ultra-popular KonMari method emailed me to ask if I had heard from anyone else who was regretting that move. He’d been happy with the results until the country’s circumstances had abruptly changed, and his family ended up reordering some of the same board games and casual diversions they had parted with back when their lives were busier and the boxes were taking up space in a closet.
The End of Minimalism
theatlantic.com
The rise and fall of bitcoin, in terms of its original ambition, serves as a cautionary tale in the digital age—it reveals how ingenious innovations that might challenge power and the consolidation of capital become co-opted and colonised by capital.
In Digital We Trust
nature.com
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