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Just picking up after 5 months! 😅

learning about the Yerkes- Dodson rule in psychology and the “Goldilocks zone”
The sweet spot between boredom and motivation, and how a task needs to be challenging to be engaging but not TOO challenging to where we feel defeated and give up.

I’m so glad to be back to reading this book! This chapter talked about your genetic predisposition on habits. Pick the right things to be good at, and your chance of success is so much higher

Example in the book: Michael Phelps was an Olympian swimmer, he was 6’4” with long body and legs. It makes swimming easy, but he wouldn’t be AS great at long distance running, as every pound is weight and slows u down

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Intro done

life- changing

I’m learning so much from this book and it’s really sticking. I keep bringing it up in conversation

Absolutely love it. The physical diagrams are changing and re enforcing all of the behavior I’ve learned in 2024.