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I’m a huge advocate of writing in the morning. Science clearly shows that the brain is most readily creative immediately following sleep. Your subconscious never sleeps, and is always engaged in figuring out your problems and making key connections. As Thomas Edison said, “Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.”
How to Turn Journal Ramblings Into Viral Articles
Dr. Benjamin Hardy
This is a perspective from which you can finally ask the most fundamental question of time management: What would it mean to spend the only time you ever get in a way that truly feels as though you are making it count?
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Hegel is probably best known today for his teleological belief that human history tends toward progress and is guided rationally by *Geist*, or “spirit,” a quasi-supernatural force for good. He taught that this progress is slowly achieved through the operation of the “dialectic.” According to this concept, a grand conversation occurs in three parts—thesis, antithesis, and synthesis—in which one side presents an argument (thesis), another side gives an opposing viewpoint (antithesis), and all of this results in a resolution (synthesis) that involves more nuanced understanding of the issues. This rational reconciliation of differences thus leads to advances—in other words, progress.
The Ultimate German Philosophy for a Happier Life
Arthur C. Brooks
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