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It was a trail of mechanism: mindset impacts emotion, which alters biology, which increases performance. Thus, it seemed, by tinkering with mindset—using everything from physical to psychological to pharmacological interventions—one could significantly enhance performance.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
Is anything more valuable to a company than the way its people spend their energies?
An Everyone Culture
Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey
There is a parable of the teacher who gives a student a challenge: Here is a stone. Here is a tower with one hundred stairs to the top. Your job is to bring the stone to the of the tower. Cradling the heavy stone, the student top manages to get it to the door of the tower. But the door is very narrow and the stone is too wide. No matter how the student turns the stone, it cannot fit through the door.
The task you have given me is impossible, cries the student. The teacher takes a hammer and cracks the stone open so that the pieces all fit easily through the door. The stone is your heart, says the teacher. Only a broken heart can rise upward
Wild Problems
Russ Roberts
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