Inspiration The 3R’s (and icons) of maintaining a healthy environment and planet can be re-purposed to also remind us how to maintain a healthy, active, and rapidly learning brain. Reduce → Reduce Reuse → Reuse Recycle → Reward 1. REDUCE Reduction is synonymous with simplification. Remember we talked earlier about how “studying harder” is less effective […]
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Falling Down the Rabbit Hole in Search of Korea’s Most Wanted Man
You take the BLUE pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the RED pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the Rabbit Hole goes. — Morpheus, The Matrix Korea’s Most Wanted (INTERPOL Red Notice) For a long time, I […]
Until Your SHOULDS Become MUSTS, You’re Doomed to Walk the Road of Average
If you want to know the difference in people’s lives, it all comes down to: what are the things in your life that are “MUSTS” versus “SHOULDS”? — Anthony Robbins Should Recently, I listened to an interview with Anthony Robbins where he talks about the difference between Must and Should. He said, “If you want […]
My Experimentation (and Success!) with Habit Creation
Over the past week, I’ve been playing around with habits. Actually, habits have fascinated me for some time – particularly since I started studying them in the book by Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit. I’ve written a number of previous posts on habits (using some of the stuff I learned from that book for […]
How to use Neurological Cravings to Create Good Habits (Like Studying Korean)
If you can identify the right cue and reward—and if you can create a sense of craving—you can establish almost any habit. … Craving, it turns out, is what powers a habit. – Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit The last Motivation post on here talked about habits, particularly about the power of habits and […]