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Biologists often talk about the “ecology” of an organism: the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not a book about tall trees. It’s a book about forests—and hockey is a good place to start because the explanation for who gets to the top of the hockey world is a lot more interesting and complicated than it looks. In fact, it’s downright peculiar.
þÿOutliers: The Story of Success
þÿMalcolm] Malcolm Gladwell [Gladwell & chenjin5.com
Where is innocence? Where there is will to procreation. And he who seeketh to create beyond himself, hath for me the purest will.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Consistency Over Intensity
Summary:
CNN's John Sutter talks about the concept of habit stacking. He says meditation can be tied to a well-established, daily routine. One woman who wanted to meditate couldn't find time for 20 minutes every day. She was frustrated with herself and decided to give it up completely.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
There is one somebody i was working with who wanted to implement meditation, and for some reason he, or it was she, she couldn't find 20 minutes to do itike, she i just can't do 20, 20 minutes. And she's like, let me try ten minutes. And she couldn't do ten minutes. Now this woman was very startn to get frustrated with herself, because she was breaking promises to herself. And she was in give it up completely. Moka, i guess i can't meditate. And then we started talking about this concept of habit stacking, where maybe you could tie meditation to a habit that's already well established. And as she combed over her routine in the morning, she said, you knowha, i'm wan to do, i'm going to meditate while i brush my teeth.
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