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How to Live Longer, Dogs Can Smell Your Stress, Acceptance & Suffering
Mario Peshev
October 22, 2022
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3 Ideas For Better Habits
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Every Great Company is a Conspiracy to Change the World
Author and serial entrepreneur, Peter Thiel on startup success patterns:
“The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.”
Schedule Suffering Into Your Day
Best-selling author & former Navy Seal, David Goggins on how intentional suffering can help you grow:
“It's a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”
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The Desire for More Positive Experiences is a Negative Experience
Best-selling author, Mark Manson, on the power of acceptance:
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. (p.9)”
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Brain Food
Today I Learned: The physiological processes associated with an acute psychological stress response produce changes in human breath and sweat that dogs can detect with an accuracy of 93.75%, according to a new study. (Source)
Science: Think you're someone who just "isn't creative"? Think again. New study shows that anyone can be trained to be creative. (Source)
Have a productive week,
The Smarter Brain Team