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Mi mente es un loop de esto: "Ya quiero llegar a la casa a leerlo! No puedo pensar en nada más que no sea leer esto!"

It is thy duty then in the midst of such things to show good humour and not a proud air; to understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Me gustaría leer este libro una vez al año. Nada me ha traído tanta certeza.

“There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return”

...the components of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill.

Indeed, there are probably half a dozen different ways to learn. There are people, like Churchill, who learn by writing. Some people learn by taking copious notes. (...) Some people learn by doing. Others learn by hearing themselves talk.

First and foremost, concentrate on your strengths. Put yourself where your strengths can produce results.

Second, work on improving your strengths. Analysis will rapidly show where you need to improve skills or acquire new ones. It will also show the gaps in your knowledge—and those can usually be filled.

Third, discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it

"This kind of clear communication takes time to develop as the coach and athlete become better acquainted, but from the beginning, effort should be made continually to establish and improve the kind of rapport necessary to support the athlete´s technical progress."

The primary concern in this case is the ability of the coach and athlete to effectively communicate with each other - no amount of accurate technique analysis by the coach will have any effect if the athlete doesn't understand the coach´s feedback. Similarly, the athlete must be able to relay to the coach his or her experience with each lift.

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republi...

2:18:14 @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGPT2...

"Those at the top never stop learning: if at any point they start coasting and stop such smart practice, too much of their game becomes bottom-up and their skills plateau"

One cognitive capacity that continues to increase as the years go on is “crystallized intelligence”: recognizing what matters, the signal within the noise. Some call it wisdom

Another antidote to groupthink: expand your circle of connection beyond your comfort zone and inoculate against in-group isolation by building an ample circle of no-BS confidants who keep you honest

It’s not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet.

Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near-constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control

"Los países desarrollados tienen normas flexibles de cumplimiento rígido. Ustedes tienen normas rígidas de cumplimiento flexible"... Mientras no se respeten las leyes y no exista confianza, los países no recibirán inversiones nacionales ni extranjeras, y tendrán que seguir endeudándose para mantener sus economías a flote.