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How to Change Someone's Mind, Optimize Your Nutrition, Time Management Secrets

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Mario Peshev
June 25, 2022

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3 Ideas For Better Habits

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Persistent Failure Breeds Success

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman on the failure behind success:

“I’ve always had the view that how successful you are is really a function of how you deal with failure. If you deal with failure well and you persist, you have a high probability of being successful.”

Protect Your Most Productive Hours

Author Elizabeth Gilbert on the secret to time management:

“You should know by this point in your life what time of day you’re ‘good' — like what time of day is your brain at its best. Because the reality is we all get, maybe, two good hours a day where we actually feel awake and alert.

“And the big, important question is: Who currently gets that time from you. The best time from your brain every day—who or what currently gets that? And would you be willing to take it back so that it’s yours and then give the world the ‘second-rate' version of you (which is the other 22 hours of the day)…”

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Use Stories to Change Minds

Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers on how to change someone's mind:

“The best arguments in the world won't change a single person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”

Source: The Overstory

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Productivity Tools and Resources

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5 Things to Do When You Have Too Many Ideas and Never Finish Anything (Article)

"This is the paradox of choice. More choice often leads to less action. The more ideas and goals we pursue, the less likely we’ll follow through on any one of them. And vice versa."

Brain Food

Today I Learned: "In just the U.S. alone, one estimate suggests 500 million straws are used every single day. One study published earlier this year estimated as many as 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world's beaches. In the U.K., at least 4.4 billion straws are estimated to be thrown away annually." (Source)

Science: In a study recently published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the University of Tsukuba discovered that music with a groove, known as groove music, can significantly increase brain function in participants who are familiar with the music. (Source)

Have a productive week,

The Smarter Brain Team