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"The gut microbiome plays a significant role in making our neurotransmitters, which control our thoughts and feelings and regulate mood and behavior."
“The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time.”
"Movement is medicine, and the simplest acts of daily motion can have profound impacts on our health and longevity."
"Run after your obsessions with everything you have. Just be sure to take notes along the way."
"I believe that if an Attention Rebellion begins, we will, sooner or later, have to take on this very deep issue: the growth machine itself."
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"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."
"If you’re required to exert willpower to do something, there is an obvious internal conflict."
"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day - Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death."
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"When it comes to creating and sustaining culture, what matters is not the content of any one message, but its tone."
"Measure what you value, and others will value what you measure."
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"Ego is stolen. Confidence is earned. Confidence is based on what is real and solid. Ego is fake. It is hollow."
"Productivity is not just about getting things done, it's about achieving our goals and living a meaningful life."
"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?" — Epictetus
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"To be principled means to consistently operate with principles that can be clearly explained."
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"Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you end up depends entirely on who you choose to be from this moment forward."
"Practicing hyperfocus means practicing how to manage your distractions."
"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."
"Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless."
"Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways—operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes—makes you smarter."
"We capture what has our attention; clarify what each item means and what to do about it; organize the results, which presents the options we reflect on, which we then choose to engage with."
"Givers, takers, and matchers all can—and do—achieve success. But there’s something distinctive that happens when givers succeed: it spreads and cascades."
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"Your habits will make you or break you."
"What's the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?"
"Taking small, consistent steps leads to massive, lasting change. Don't underestimate the power of incremental progress. Each step, no matter how small, brings you closer to your destination."
"The first principle of ultralearning is to deeply understand the material, not just to pass a test or complete an assignment."
"You can't do everything, but you can do the most important things."
"All change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end."
"You must write every single day of your life. No matter how small, write something every day."
"It's not about the pursuit of happiness; it's about the happiness of pursuit."
"Learn to identify and trumpet ONE thing you want people to know. And do it in ONE strong sentence. Or no one will ever remember it."
"How we get to the end of our lives with minimal regrets: We choose well. We set aside lesser pursuits to seek meaning in our lives. And we do it every single day."
"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."