psychology
you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail. (Location 317) Boredom is required for anyone who wants to get some level of serious work done: ^8c361b Or, akin to the Congressional Budget
For a planning meeting—probably not. Such meetings rarely dive into substantive content and tend to feature a lot of small talk and posturing in which participants try to make it seem like they’re committing to a lot without actually having to commit. (Location 2564) Once, when contemplating the
psychology
This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. (Location 204) Its difficult to ask the right question, since the hard questions are usually uncomfortable. We lob conversational softballs out of fear that a
deep-life
It takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes of focused attention to reach a flow state. Once in flow, it may last from 30 minutes to a couple of hours. However, it is possible to achieve flow more than once a day, given the right conditions time to enter flow state
psychology
Are values intrinsic or are values built over time Values Document? Certain values are heavily based in millennia old traditions…but all traditions had to start somewhere. Other values are highly individual, and are created by a person to fulfill some sort of need. We see this a lot in
anxiety
Consistent worrying chip away at the minds defenses, and eventually seem less like suggestions and more like causal outcomes. This causes the person to defensively react and create mechanisms to build a "fence" around the negative thoughts, causing release in rituals. This is why we cope! 202301090011
psychology
System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. (Location 338) Automatic processes run the human mind, just as they have been running animal minds for 500 million years,
humor
Ehrenberg’s book allows us to connect some big dots. The liberation of the individual from various identities, obligations, and allegiances in the 1960s gave a new flavor to our economic individualism. The economics of the right became infused with the moral fervor of the youthful left in a grand
economics
The general theme of these findings is that the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others. (Location 891) Whether you are a hippie with a killer business sense 202301092335, or you are a libertarian crypto
psychology
“act calm and kind regardless of how you feel” is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind. (Location 871) Situations are constantly evaluated as good or bad, requiring escape or permitting approach. Good mood and cognitive ease are the human equivalents of
economics
“Plans are best-case scenarios. Let’s avoid anchoring on plans when we forecast actual outcomes. Thinking about ways the plan could go wrong is one way to do it.” (Location 2107) Unless you are Sydney Sweeney, in which case make a powerpoint that will come true 202212200240 Something to think
psychology
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media. (Location 126) Ties into the primacy effect: The primacy effect is a cognitive bias and refers to an