Many of the survival components of the MPI life wall can be obtained with money and, if you live in the developed world, it can be very difficult to obtain them without money. In the meantime, there are other things that money can buy that go beyond survival. Some of these are things that can …
Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist that studies the sleep cycles of the brain. He says (8.3) that, statistically, the average human spends 36% of their life asleep. Margaret Thatcher once famously said, “sleep is for wimps”. It’s as if sleep is an illness or an enemy. The brain does not shut down while sleeping. …
Once we get beyond the survival requirement for shelter we can transition your thinking into how to optimize our living environments for the ideal life that we want to live. The space that we live in is an extremely important yet extremely under-discussed subject. If we want to feel happy then we need to exist …
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination,” Albert Einstein once said. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Although the use of imagination has led to many of the greatest discoveries ever made, our understanding of the science of imagination has been surprisingly limited. …
Research from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden indicates our imagination can change our perceptions of reality. It appears that your mind can literally play tricks on you by changing illusions of what you think you hear and see into what seems like reality. The research helps us understand how the human brain combines information from the different senses …
I strongly encourage you to read and contemplate each of these quotes about imagination. These people are not just saying that it played an important role. They are essentially attributing their success to it. It goes even further, most of them give the impression that using their imagination was not only the thing that leads …
We will spend some time how to use your imagination however, when it comes to using your imagination, there is one critical rule that can never, ever be broken. That rule is that “there are no rules in imagination”. Your private inner world Nobody can bother you here. It’s your own “other world”. You can …
If you’re going to maximize your impact, you’re going have to imagine it first. If you have trouble imagining any goal your goal is doomed before you even start. Assuming you can imagine it and you do get started, the size of your impact will also be determined by your imagination. Do you have the …
As I was researching energy management and optimization (for humans) I was surprised at how little organized and detailed information was available that addresses such an important subject that directly impacts every human on the planet. There is a lot of information relating to energy management for athletes, however, this is only partly relevant to …
Humanity needs energy to operate and so do we as individuals. Energy is literally and figuratively the fuels that powers us. So, what is it? How do we get more of it? In the chapter about Time I mentioned that life is one big exercise in time management. In this chapter, I’m saying that life …