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The Path to Expertise 🛣️
Mario Peshev
May 08, 2024
Welcome to The Smarter Brain, a curation of thought-provoking ideas and actionable reads to help you build better habits and become more productive.
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The Smarter Brain Team
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3 Ideas For Better Habits
Embracing Life's Lessons
Psychologist and teacher, Gay Hendricks, on the importance of openness.
"Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather.
But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer."
Source: The First Rule of Ten
Prioritizing for Maximum Impact
Time management expert, Brian Tracy, on tackling challenges.
"If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first."
Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
The Power of Constructive Feedback
Psychologist, Angela Duckworth, on the path to expertise.
"As soon as possible, experts hungrily seek feedback on how they did. Necessarily, much of that feedback is negative. This means that experts are more interested in what they did wrong—so they can fix it—than what they did right. The active processing of this feedback is as essential as its immediacy."
Productivity Tools and Resources
Eliminate Digital Distraction
ClearSpace helps you minimize distractions by turning your iPhone into an environment where impulse-clicking is impossible and you'll never mindlessly scroll.
A Home For All Your Lists
Superlist hosts your tasks, notes & everything in between.
What We're Reading
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Brain Food
Today I Learned: Nutmeg is a hallucinogen; it contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses. (Source)
Science: People are more creative in the shower. When we take a warm shower, we experience an increased dopamine flow that makes us more creative. (Source)
Have a productive week ahead,
The Smarter Brain Team
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