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August 1 - September 21, 2017
Any illusion of calm was shattered.
covering
religiously
condensed
No downtime. Completely streamlined.
good DNA
herculean
phenom
emerging
Consumed
Google’s director of research Peter Norvig,
economists Daniel Hamermesh and Elena Stancanelli found that 27 percent of Americans regularly work between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., and 29 percent of Americans do at least some work on the weekends.
SUSTAINABLE
complacent and plateau
relocated to
Less known
Immersion:
compared to wuwei
unremitting
Incubation:
“eureka”
the room. No sooner than everyone’s salivary glands
had depleted their mental muscle
the boundaries between mental and physical fatigue are not nearly as
exclusive
“Weakened self-control may be one potential cause for the levels of infidelity occurring in romantic relationships today.”
fMRI
prefrontal cortex
stress + rest = growth.
discount
shattered.
stress.
qing li zhi zhong yi liao zhi wai
inflammatory proteins and a hormone called cortisol.
SKILLS COME FROM STRUGGLE
Growth comes at the point of resistance; we learn by pushing ourselves to the outer reaches of our abilities.
Drilling specific, testable facts in preparation for rigid, standardized tests doesn’t promote learning.
open-ended
Lamb embraces the challenge, seeing failure not as a setback but an opportunity to grow.
“productive failure.”
better than opftimal pessemist
web of knowledge
System 1 takes over.
default
struggling to the point of failure and
The little voice inside your head saying, “I can’t possibly do this,”
Other stressors in
the point of resistance for growth.
metaphor but also actual
add up.
(from wine tasting to financial investing),
deep concentration.
multitasking?
Elon Musk
Unfortunately, our brains don’t work like computers.
