Learning Learning new things is an obvious way to cause your brain to process more information and slow down time. Given the subject matter of this book, if you are going to learn something new, it might as well be something that will help you maximize your impact. New places Experiencing a new environment can …
There are many situations in life that cause us to feel like time is moving more quickly or more slowly. Does time fly when you’re having fun? In 1990, William Friedman published a review of 70 time experiments, including a list of phenomena that occur during duration time estimates. Several of his findings along with …
Philip George Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He specializes in researching “Time perspective”. It is the study of how individuals divide the flow of human experience into different time frames or time zones (referring to the past, present, and future). This usually occurs automatically and unconsciously but it varies …
If there was no time nothing that we can perceive would exist. Although our senses – sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste – work by utilizing specialized sensory receptors, there is no specific receptor for time. Yet we can obviously perceive it. However, our perception changes over time – no pun intended. “From infancy onwards …
There is a long list of scientific reasons to start meditating and we will briefly address them here (4.15). Improves immune function Davidson, Richard J. PhD et al, conducted research aimed at exploring biological processes that are associated with changes in mental and physical health in response to meditation. The researchers measured brain activity before …
Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics. His research indicates that our “experiencing selves” perceive happiness differently from our “remembering selves”. He tells the story (4.14) of a friend that was listening to a concert that ended with a screeching noise. The friend mentioned, with a lot of passion, that the …
Sometimes maximizing your positive impact means minimizing your negative impact or the negative impact that something was somebody will have on you. Receiving bad news usually triggers a sequence of predictable events. After receiving the news we immediately start calculating numerous very bad possible future scenarios and consequences. Our mind takes control of our imagination …
Antonio Damasio is a neuroscientist and neurobiologist and the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California. He says (4.12) that if we didn’t have consciousness we wouldn’t know anything about the world, there would be no pain, no joy, etc. There would be no ability to love or to create. Over …
Is fear real or are we in fear of fear itself after all? Many people suffer from a fear of something that is preventing them from being what they want to be and constraining their potential impact. They have a fear of aiming high, fear of failure, a fear of being themselves and many others. …
If you want to aim higher and achieve the higher goals you probably need to become a better version of yourself. Some aspects of life will simply have to change. Kelly McGonigal, PhD is a Stanford health psychologist talks and author of book “The WillPower Instinct”. She says (4.10) that a willpower challenge is anything …