One of the most important tricks for maximizing your productivity involves matching your mental state to the task.
People think they follow advice but they don’t. Humans are only capable of receiving information. They create their own advice. If you seek to influence someone, don’t waste time giving advice. You ca...
Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, ev...
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences untilreal understanding can be found. Sometimes understanding comes and the temporary word...
There is more information in one thimble of realitythan can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It isbeyond the human brain to understand the world and itsenvironment, so the brain compensates...
There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.
Women define themselves by their relationships and men define themselves by whom they are helping. Women believe value is created by sacrifice. If you are willing to give up your favorite activities t...
You should also try to figure out which people are thing people and which ones are people people.
It is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not bel...
Shyness is caused by an internal feeling that you are not worthy to be in the conversation.
Take care of yourself first and use that success as leverage to get everything else you need. I’ll
An insane person believes his world is consistent. If hebelieves the government is trying to kill him, he will seeample evidence of his belief in the so-called real world. Hewill be wrong, but his evi...
Avoid career traps such as pursuing jobs that require you to sell your limited supply of time while preparing you for nothing better.
Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognitionthat you don’t know as much as you thought you knew.
But Trump apparently wanted to squeeze some extra juice from the word lying and make his branding stand out. So he insisted that Lyin’ Ted was the proper spelling, not Lying Ted. This was good brandin...
Clinical psychologists have proven that ordinary peoplewill alter their memories of the past to make them fittheir perceptions. It is the way all normal brains functionunder ordinary circumstances.
Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That’s exactly how you look to them.
Every generation of humans believed it had all theanswers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumedwould be solved at any moment. And they all believed theirancestors were simplistic and delu...
Every other question has an answer to why. Onlyprobability is inexplicable.
Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.
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