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The Simplest Way to Find Joy, Multitasking Doesn't Exist, and Why Mosquitos Choose You

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Mario Peshev
November 19, 2022

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3 Ideas For Better Habits

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Find Joy in Other Peoples' Successes

Former Hindu Monk, Jay Shetty on how we can experience more joy by celebrating others.

“Mudita is the principle of taking sympathetic or unselfish joy in the good fortune of others. If I only find joy in my own successes, I’m limiting my joy. But if I can take pleasure in the successes of my friends and family—ten, twenty, fifty people!—I get to experience fifty times the happiness and joy. Who doesn’t want that?”

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You're not Actually Multitasking

Journalist & writer, Johann Hari on the rarity of uninterrupted time.

“The average office worker now spends 40 percent of their work time wrongly believing they are "multitasking" -- which means they are incurring all these costs for their attention and focus. In fact, uninterrupted time is becoming rare. One study found that most of us working in offices never get a whole hour uninterrupted in a normal day.”

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Why Wait any Longer to Make the Most of our Limited Time?

Best-selling author, Oliver Burkeman, on reframing the need for control and making the most of our 4,000 weeks.

“It’s alarming to face the prospect that you might never truly feel as though you know what you’re doing, in work, marriage, parenting, or anything else. But it’s liberating, too, because it removes a central reason for feeling self-conscious or inhibited about your performance in those domains in the present moment: if the feeling of total authority is never going to arrive, you might as well not wait any longer to give such activities your all—to put bold plans into practice, to stop erring on the side of caution. It is even more liberating to reflect that everyone else is in the same boat, whether they’re aware of it or not.”

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Brain Food

Today I Learned: The female mosquito will hunt down any human, but some of us get bitten far more than others. The answer why may be hidden in our skin. (​Source​)

Science: Lack of sleep is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, depression, diabetes, hypertension and sexual dysfunction. (​Source​)

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