Join 📚 Christian Champ's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Christian's read, .
There is a deep interrelationship here. Our limits are governed by flow’s ability to amplify performance as much as by imagination’s ability to dream up that performance. So asking the question “Where do our limits lie?” is another way of asking, “How far can we stretch our imagination?”
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
“Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.”- Richard Feynman
Tweets From Tom Morgan
@tomowenmorgan on Twitter
Combat isn’t simply a matter of risk, though; it’s also a matter of mastery. The basic neurological mechanism that induces mammals to do things is called the dopamine reward system. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that mimics the effect of cocaine in the brain, and it gets released when a person wins a game or solves a problem or succeeds at a difficult task. The dopamine reward system exists in both sexes but is stronger in men, and as a result, men are more likely to become obsessively involved in such things as hunting, gambling, computer games, and war. When the men of Second Platoon were moping around the outpost hoping for a firefight it was because, among other things, they weren’t getting their accustomed dose of endorphins and dopamine. They played video games instead.
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise