High Performance People

11/02/2022

We like to think we have conscious control over our behaviour, but the more we learn, the more we know that that’s not entirely true. We’re less in control than we’d like...
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All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view, Nick Paumgarten writes.

20/04/2021

"Additive solutions have sort of a privileged status—they tend to come to mind quickly and easily. Subtractive solutions are not necessarily harder to consider, but they take more effort to find."

People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones

18/04/2021

Deliberate practice is the key to expert performance in writing, teaching, sports, programming, music, medicine, therapy, chess, business, and more. But there’s more to it than 10,000 hours. Read to learn how to accelerate learning, overcome plateaus, turn experience into expertise, and enhance fo...

08/04/2021

Resilience is a set of skills—and psychologists know how you can learn them.

29/03/2021

“A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of his life.”....
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Time is invisible so it's easy to spend without proper consideration to its value. Seneca offers a warning on how we squander our time only to regret it.

29/03/2021

"If someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally underestimate how effort needs to be poured into talent in order to develop it. So much of getting good at anything is just pure labor: figuring out how to try and then offering up the hours."

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People like to say that lives on social media look unattainable and perfect, but whenever I see something that’s beautifully curated all I can see is the sweat: the money expended, the surgery and fillers, the workouts, the interior designers, the carefully selected objects, the hours spent settin...

14/03/2021

We look at how reinforcement and incentives shape our actions and how we can use these tools effectively with others.