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Surprise Being funny is a state of mind, and the main ingredient for that state is a hunger to surprise: to give the answer we didn’t think of; to react with an emotion we didn’t expect; to care more than we predicted; to be more specific than necessary.
How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth
Will Hines
In one-on-one meetings, Mitt not only asked about the status of project deliverables, he asked about the blockers. A favorite question was “What is getting in the way of your being successful?”
Really, none of this is new. Five thousand years ago, early yoga practitioners were tinkering with embodied cognition to prompt higher states of awareness. If simply standing like Wonder Woman for a few minutes is enough to produce meaningful changes in our hormonal profile, imagine what practicing a full sequence of yoga postures every morning would do. “There’s all this evidence that [movement sequences] have an impact on stress,”11 Peter Strick, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Brain Institute, writes in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “it has an effect on how you project yourself and how you feel.”
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
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