“the 10,000 Hour rule is a definite key in success”
-Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
“It’s clear from this data that deliberate practice doesn’t account for all, nearly all, or even most of the variance in performance in chess and music.”
-Intelligence, Volume 45, July–August 2014, Pages 34–45 “Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?” David Z. Hambricka, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613000421 - cr0005
When you rely on self-control, you usE
mental energy and depleTE Your resources.
Eventually that
self-control is “fatigued”
“The brain works best with about 25 grams of glucose in the bloodstream – about the amount found in a banana.”
- Leigh Gibson, Research Scientist UCLA
“It takes time (an average of 15 minutes) to re-orient to a primary task after a distraction such as an email. Efficiency can drop by as much as 40%.”
- Harvard Business Review, December 21, 2010 “You Can't Multitask, So Stop Trying” Paul Atchley, http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/12/you-cant-multi-task-so-stop-tr/
biological associations Cause anxiety / Fear responses when we watch a Horror Movie. work Associations Are just as powerful.
Positive Expectation – Drives effort. Positive Fantasies – sap motivation.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 83(5), Nov 2002, 1198-1212.e
“I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.”
- Diane Von Furstenberg
working with your rhythm:
• You’ll Get more done, • Enjoy greater motivation, • and do it All faster.
“for every 10 minutes people “fool around” online, they spend: • 2.9 minutes less on all other types of leisure • 2.7 fewer minutes working (or a more dramatic 3.75 minutes for
people in their 30s) • 1.2 fewer minutes on personal care - including sleep • 1 less minute traveling • 42 fewer seconds on household activities • 36 fewer seconds on educational activities”
- Washington post, October 22, 2013 “Here’s how the Internet hurts your sleep schedule, productivity and personal life” Scott Wallsten, Senior researcher at the Tech Policy Institute,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/22/heres-how-much-the-internet-hurts-your-sleep-schedule-productivity-and-personal-life/
"Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is indispensable to the brain… it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done."
- Tim Kreider, New York Times
"the gritty individual approaches achievement as a marathon; his or her advantage is stamina.” - Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
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