Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.
Our most precious gift is our brain. It is what allows us to learn, love, think, create, and even to experience joy. It is the gateway to our emotions, to our capacity for deeply experiencing life, to our ability to have lasting intimacy. It allows us to innovate, grow, and accomplish.
I will see it when I believe it.
New belief: There is no such thing as failure. Only failure to learn.
Give a person an idea, and you enrich their day. Teach a person how to learn, and they can enrich their entire life.
If you are struggling to reach a goal in any area, you must first ask: Where is the limit? Most likely, you’re experiencing a limit in your mindset, motivation, or methods – which means that it’s not a personal shortcoming or failure pointing to any perceived lack of ability.
If you’re struggling to find motivation to learn, or to accomplish anything else in your life, there is a good chance you haven’t uncovered the why of the task.
All behavior is driven by belief, so before we address how to learn, we must first address the underlying beliefs we hold about what is possible.
Our most precious gift is our brain.
You can learn to unlimit and expand your mindset, your motivation, and your methods to create a limitless life. When you do what others won’t, you can live how others can’t.
To remember any new piece of information, you must associate it with something you already know.
Reasons that are tied to your purpose, identity, and values will sufficiently motivate you to act, even in the face of all of the daily obstacles that life puts in your way.
What I have come to find over my years of working with people is that most everyone limits and shrinks their dreams to fit their current reality.
In a era of autonomously driven electric cars and vehicles capable of taking us to Mars, our education system is the equivalent of a horse and carriage.
But being limitless is not about being perfect. It’s about progressing beyond what you currently believe is possible.
Remember that we tend to remember that which we create.
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we must be accountable for who we become.
Do you remember what it was like when you were approaching your teens and you first started formulating thoughts and opinions independent of your parents? My guess is that this experience was extremely liberating for you and that it might have even been the first time in your life when you truly felt like your own person. What had happened to you, of course, was that your critical faculties had become refined enough to allow you to regularly employ reason to navigate through life.
Scientists have learned that animals that experience prolonged stress have less activity in the parts of their brain that handle higher-order tasks – for example, the prefrontal cortex – and more activity in the primitive parts of their brain that are focused on survival, such as the amygdala.
In his TED talk about sleep, Dr. Jeff Iliff of Oregon Health and Science University takes the “laundry cycle” metaphor even further. He notes that, while we’re awake, the brain is so busy doing other things that it doesn’t have the capacity to clean itself of waste. The buildup of this waste, amyloid-beta, is now being linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.