What doesn’t make you stronger kills you.
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What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
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| — | Herbert Simon |
Those 7s can actually be highly addictive. They’re addictive because you only get rewarded some of the time. Its the same reason gambling is addictive.
Intermittent positive reinforcement yields a stronger conditioning effect then than consistent positive reinforcement.
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| — | Steve Pavlina |
When you have a startup idea then do this:
- Build your product
- Sell it to a customer
- Start shipping
- Then quit your job
- Build your product
- Sell it to a customer
- Start shipping
- Then quit your job
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When you switch away from a primary task to do something else, you’re increasing the time to finish that task by an average of 25 per cent.
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If you can ignore all the haters and focus on continual progress, you’ll be better off than the majority of people trying to do what you are doing.
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An athlete should do the least amount of properly timed, specific training that brings continual improvement.
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| — | Joe Friel in The Cyclist Training Bible |
