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No Pain Principle #6: Take Control Through Self-Regulation How we experience our world and how we react to it influences every system of our body, including the movement system. High stress can steal our adaptability, reduce movement variability, and negatively affect our general health. Thankfully, research shows that we can alter daily stress and take control of our movement and health.
All Gain, No Pain
Bill Hartman
I’ve come up with this rule of thumb for uncreative forks: I go with the one whose outcome is more unpredictable. For instance, if I have a simultaneous urge to go for a nap and go for a walk, I go for a walk, because my mental state at the end of a walk is usually less predictable than after a nap. The chances are higher that something good will come of a walk. The heuristic works because non-creative activities are more predictable, but not in a good way: they tend to predictably put you in a worse (more entropic) state, from where you can do less. They exhaust you physically and emotionally, in a state of dysphoria. Creative work by contrast, might exhaust you physically, but tends to leave you mentally stimulated and euphoric.
The Four Seasons of Lifehacking
tempobook.com
The energy of conversation depends on myriad factors—time, place, and the character of the individuals—but whether the conversation is short or long, there is always that element of energy.
The Lost Art of Good Conversation
Sakyong Mipham
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