“The addict only needs to change one thing… their whole damn life.”— Ben Hill, Ph.D.
In one way, shape, or form, we’re all prone to some form of addiction or bad habit. Whether it’s food, adrenaline, TV, we all have a psychological or physiological “need” for something that we could probably afford less of.
Every second you spend or decision you make trying to fight that compulsion depletes your ability to say “no” to it the next time. If you want to permanently change your relationship with something ... willpower, alone, may not get you there.
That same principle applies to pursuing success or personal progress. The trick is recognizing that you can create conditions that make your success much more likely.
Benjamin Hardy is a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Psychology, a bestselling author of "Willpower Doesn’t Work", a top writer on Medium, and a friend from Genius Network.
I spoke with him about his new book, the idea that “willpower doesn’t work” and what the lessons taught in his book can do for you or your organization. Check it out.
No matter how much internal resolve you have, changing the story you tell yourself and the environment you create for yourself, are reliable ways to make meaningful and lasting change.
Once you’ve found what you really want and created the environment to support it – willpower is secondary.
It's increasingly apparent that privacy in today's digital age is a farce.
If you want to actually stop Google from tracking location (short of selling all of your material possessions and living off the grid) turn off your device information, location history and web activity here. This will depersonalize your searches as well - so your ads will (hopefully) not know your deepest darkest secrets anymore.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting.
I was at the Jersey Shore for my birthday this weekend. Over 30 people showed up to surprise me. It was heartwarming, fun, and genuinely surprising.
My wife, Jennifer, arranged it all without me knowing (or even suspecting).
Here's one picture from the festivities.
We didn't go to the casinos, amusement parks, or to see shows. We did, however, eat good food, go to the beach and spend time together. I wasn't focused on my business or deadlines.
It was a heart-focused (rather than head-focused) time for us.
We are often so good at what we're good at that we forget to focus on the other stuff.
Very few people understand what we do at Capitalogix; even fewer understand it well enough to paint a vivid picture ... yet, that's exactly what Dave did ... almost instantly.
I asked him to retell it on video - to try and capture his take. To set your expectations, his take is different than you might imagine ... It's got ancient bacteria, futuristic algorithms, and a little genius.
"It takes a lot of computer power, and it takes a lot of algorithms, and it takes a lot of environmental sensors ... that's why we can walk around, breathe, and think." ~ Dave Asprey
Markets are an environment just like the environment we live in. Our algorithms can learn and evolve based on markets in a similar way to how humans evolved and adapted to their environments.
To summarize: In the beginning, there was an algorithm ... and it was good.
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - November 25th, 2018
I remember when they told me that eating meat was bad for my health ...
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting.
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