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Give problems
MY MIND REBELS AT STAGNATION. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or THE MOST INTRICATE ANALYSIS, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world. — Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
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Circumstances
Toni NADAL, coach of the great tennis player RAFAEL Nadal 🎾, explained very well what is the value of BEING AWARE OF CIRCUMSTANCES: ❝While in Monte Carlo we had to play the final against FEDERER and RAFAEL asked me: – How do you see today’s game? 🕵🏻♂️” – 😓Well, I see it complicated. Federer has the drive better than yours, the backhand is also better than yours, the volley is also better than yours, his serve is obviously better than yours…” – 😒 Stop, stop, what morale are you giving me to go out on the court.” – 🤔If you want, I can fool you but Federer won’t fool you…
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Photographies
👨🏼🏫 On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students 📸 into TWO GROUPS. 🟢Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the “QUANTITY” group. They would be graded solely on the AMOUNT of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the NUMBER OF PHOTOS submitted by each student. One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on. 🔵Everyone on the right side of the room would be in the “QUALITY” group. They would be graded only on the EXCELLENCE…
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Habits
❝A good start is half the battle.❞ – Plato 🏛 In order to make habits ‘stick,’ we need to make them AUTOMATIC and EASY. Therefore, reducing the ⚡️ACTIVATION ENERGY⚡️ involved in a task much less energy to sustain it as a habit. Have you ever procrastinated doing something for days or weeks only to eventually get around to doing it 😢, and realizing it wasn’t so bad after all? In fact, once you got started, perhaps it was pretty straight-forward, and not nearly as taxing as you’d anticipated. 🤔 THAT’S BECAUSE THE ACT OF STARTING 🎬 REQUIRED THE MOST EFFORT. In chemistry, ⚡️ACTIVATION ENERGY⚡️ refers to the minimum effort required to…
