Ep.: 21: Focus

Happy Friday, all! 🌻 

I hope everyone is gearing up for a reflective and rejuvenating holiday!

With that in mind, I wanted to share some insights into how downtime, is a HUGE part of how we remember more, focus better, and build novel insights from our diverse experiences—which ultimately builds the narrative of how we view our entire life, at the end of it.

Take it from a lead neuroscientist on the power of focus on learning:

Here are the major takeaways:

1. Exercise: It improves our brain and creates new brain cells

2. Focus: Do some focus exercises like meditation

3. Practice alertness (to improve its 8-30 min cycle)

4. Sleep: it converts short-term memory into long-term

5. Repeat: Repetition is necessary in various stages of learning

6. Take breaks (20 min) in between long hours of learning (recall Pomodoro technique!?)

7. Make mistakes to train your brain to handle new things

With that, I will leave you with my 3 major insights this week~

“God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.” Why should you and I?

John Dewey, one of America’s most profound philosophers, phrased it, the deepest urge in human nature is “the desire to be important.”

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! 🌻 

Deepak

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