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Cooking for yourself more often can help, as most restaurants design their foods to be delicious and over eat.

Today, the fruits and vegetables we find in the market look like grotesque energy packed carnival freaks compared to they wild ancestors.

Since health trajectories are shaped since childhood, we should make school nutrition a priority.

Highly palatable foods, typically a combination of fat, carbs and salt, activate our reward systems like a symphony orchestra.

Wondering the isles of processed foods at your supermarket with your Paleolithic food reward system and hypothalamus is like bringing a stone hand axe to a gun fight.
“Bet you can’t eat just one” - they know how deep the odds are stacked in their favor.

We’ve graduated as a species from brutally killing each other to mindlessly killing ourselves.

Think the body like a business. Its main goal is reproduction. There are 37 trillion employees - the cells. And calories are the currency.
Extra is deposited into checking account - glycogen, or savings - fat.

If a deficit is too severe or lasts too long, the manager will take action and change how the energy is spent.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

The human brain will do anything possible you tell it to do if you tell it often enough and strong enough!

What we put into our brains is what we get back out. The subconscious mind is a sponge – it will believe anything you tell it.

Every thought we think, every conscious or unconscious thought we say to ourselves, is translated into electrical Impulse which, in turn, direct the control centers in our brain to electrically and chemically affect and control every motion, every feeling, every action we take, every moment of every day.

We are ships with countless captains, all seeking to direct us on their own courses, for their own purposes.

We control with our own minds most everything in our lives, including our health, our careers, our personal relationships, and our futures.

Whatever you put into your mind - in one way or another – is what you will get back out – in one way or another.

And what is stored there, for most of us, what is decided for us by someone else.

You will become what you think about most. Your success or failure in anything, large or small, will depend on your programming – what do you accept from others, and what you say when you talk to yourself.

The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create.

If anyone offers you the Moon, don’t buy it.

Repetition is a convincing argument.

We became what we most believed about ourselves

It’s virtually impossible for any of us to do anything without being affected by our conditioning.

How successful you will be at anything is inexorably tied to the words and beliefs about yourself that you have stored in your subconscious mind.

Didn’t you learn the difference between Harkonnen and Atreides so that you could smell a Harkonnen trick by the stink they left on it? Didn’t you learn that Atreides loyalty is bought with love while the Harkonnen coin is hate?

But the test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.

Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?

What binds us cannot be loosed.

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Paul Atraides

Scout mindset isn’t a chore they carry out grudgingly; it’s a deep personal value of theirs, something they take pride in.
Compare the following two things you could say to motivate yourself to get out of bed:
1 “I shouldn’t break promises to myself.”
2 “I’m the kind of person who follows through on their promises.”
The first is obligation.
The second frames the situation in terms of your identity.

The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.
"Keep Your Identity Small" essay, by Paul Graham