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Reducing the distractions
A while ago I read the book Indistractable by Nir Eyal and was reminded of it recently as I watched another Joshua Becker video about how reducing watching television would be the one thing that no one regrets doing after they do it. The Indistractable book was how to reduce distractions in daily life in…
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How to rest
I listened from the book The Sleep Solution by Chris Winter this idea about how rest is also good for you even if you can’t sleep. That helped me reduce my worries about what exactly to do when you wake up in the middle of the night. Soon after that, I actually fell asleep. So…
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Making connections
I’ve been listening to Mindwandering by Moshe Bar and the role of the default mode network. The idea is that your mind makes associations with similar ideas. However the difficulty is that we create ideas based on past experiences and some associations may be unknown to us consciously. I tend to listen to multiple books…
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The Uncertainty Index
I have nearly finished Nassim Taleb’s Black Swan (yes, very late to the party). It’s a book about uncertainty. Some parts are very complex but it is written accessibly. The title of the book is based on the concept that for a long time, humanity believed swans were only white, until they came across a…
