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Modern Systems Of Education Pt. 2

School curriculum was not designed by people who have much experience or talent in the world beyond education. Influenced by a bunch of random forces over centuries of evolution, school was shaped by educationalists and built to set a standard cognition level. The...
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Modern Systems of Education pt. 1

We all start our lives with senses, reflexes, and learning mechanisms and when you think about it - if we lacked any of these capabilities, we would have trouble adapting to the world around us. In contrast, we do not start our lives with information processors,...
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Slack Time

DeMarco defines slack as “the degree of freedom required to effect change. Slack is the natural enemy of efficiency and efficiency is the natural enemy of slack.” Elsewhere, he writes: “Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term...
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Do it on purpose and you’ll find out who you are

“People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.” — Seth Godin Tweet Asking for a guarantee before you start isn’t helpful. Instead, we...
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The Better Generation

Fluid intelligence involves being able to think and reason abstractly and solve problems. This ability is considered independent of learning, experience, and education. — Qwarter Tweet Generational Intelligences People often claim that their intelligence seems to...
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The Feynman Learning Technique

“If something is a tool, it genuinely is just sitting there, waiting patiently. If something is not a tool it's demanding things from you. It's seducing you, it’s manipulating you, it wants things from you. We've moved away from a tools-based technology environment,...
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Social Dilemma

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” — E.F. Schumacher Tweet Pretend to teach a concept you want to learn about to a student in the sixth...
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The digital self and customer loyalty: from theory to virtual reality

“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded in these short term signals: hearts, likes, thumbs up and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth. And instead, what it is is fake brittle popularity that’s short...
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Becoming Indistractable

“Most distraction doesn’t originate outside of us. It’s not just the pings, dings, and rings. Most distraction starts from within.” Nir Eyal Tweet “The more I research this topic of distraction, I start to realize that technology is the proximal cause, not the root...
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To become who we are, we must stop choosing who we are not

What you think, you become What you feel, you attract What you imagine, you create. Buddha Tweet If you want to have an entirely different life by this time next year, then once you are finished reading this, I will need you to do one thing and one thing only: I will...
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The One Thing

“Success demands singleness of purpose. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. Passion for something leads to disproportionate...
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Young & Restless

“Faking joy around others (or on social media) is a quick path to unrelenting depression (and it doesn’t help others’ mental health either).” Lorenzo, Author Tweet In the first quarter of our life, it is our time to make mistakes. To take risks. The 20s are about...
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Young & Restless

Oct 29, 2020

“Faking joy around others (or on social media) is a quick path to unrelenting depression (and it doesn’t help others’ mental health either).” Lorenzo, Author Tweet In the first quarter of our life, it is our time to make mistakes. To take risks. The 20s are about...

Phineas Gage

Oct 22, 2020

Phineas Gage is one of the most famous patients in neuroscience. He suffered a traumatic brain injury when an iron rod went through his entire skull, destroying his frontal lobe. Not only did Gage miraculously survive this accident but he also changed as a person from...

Emotional Intelligence

Oct 22, 2020

Emotional Intelligence can change the way you view yourself, see the world around you, can change the way you got about the goals you want to achieve. EQ is an absolutely critical skill because we have more than 400 emotional experiences every day. Whether you are...

How Kid Cudi’s Passion Found Him

Oct 16, 2020

BAPEKid Cudi was 20 years old when he decided to leave his hometown of Cleveland and moved to New York. He had tried college for a year, but wasn’t feeling it, and even considered joining the Navy, that didn’t work out, either. Ultimately, he wanted to pursue music,...

COVID-19 Outbreak

Apr 14, 2020

The outbreak of coronavirus is impacting people all over the world—not just in terms of physical health, but financially, emotionally, and even socially. As were being challenged to adapt to our new circumstances, it can be tempting to let ourselves go and wait for it...

The Darkness Holds the Treasure

Nov 24, 2019

Failure is usually a good thing to experience but it's all about how we interpret the circumstance, event or result. When you fail in business, let's say when you set high-performance goals and don't reach them, it's only because you felt and acknowledged your limits...

Meditation, mindfulness, & Manifestation

Oct 25, 2019

What is meditation? There’s meditation where you have insights and then there’s mediation where you’re clearing things. But the average person's mind is highjacked by the world, media and social media they’re thinking thoughts that don’t even belong to them. They...

Intention Deficit Disorder

Oct 22, 2019

What are intentions? Intentions are passionate desires blended with a goal for an upcoming day, meeting, or experience. When you set an intention for any result and you believe it will transpire, you send a message to your subconscious signaling the mind to actively...

Emotion vs. feeling

Sep 7, 2019

Emotions Emotions are generally instinctive. A triggering event—which can be an external situation or simply our brain anticipating something—generates an emotional response like fear, amusement, sadness, anger, relief, or love.  Emotions come and go. They’re...