Evidence shows there is actually more happiness predicted by a sense of progress instead of your current status/success. This is because of hedonic adaptation - which is where people adapt very quickly to their status such as wealth, job title, lifestyle. A person whose income

So a tip to actually perform your floor systems is to trick your brain into working on auto-pilot. Use time, place or cue to trigger your floor system. 1. Time - “At 8am I will do X” 2. Place - “When I sit at my desk, I will do Y” 3. Cue - “After I make my coffee I will do Z”

Yes. This is the way I design and carry out my floor systems: 1. Decide which areas of life you want to have a reliable floor in - e.g. nutrition, exercise, work, personal relationships, learning. 2. Then ask yourself what’s the smallest version of progress that you’d be OK

I hear people say that you should show up and perform at your best every day to hit your goals. But this is not realistic. In reality, motivation fades, fatigue hits & pressure comes. This is when you need reliable systems to fall back on to ensure that your worst days are

Check out Aristotle’s Golden Mean - it’s a really lovely framework to frame how you want act in life. The premise is that virtue (the right way to act) lies between two extremes of too much & too little. For example, the golden mean for a good leader: •Confident but open to

There is already significant misalignment with what humans want AI to do and what AI is actually doing. The sycophancy of chatGPT is actually a big issue right now - it tells us what it thinks that we want to hear. There are even accounts of marriage breakdowns from the fact that

Evidence shows that we feel losses much more deeply than gains, even if they are of the same value. This is caused loss aversion. It often leads to people sitting in comfort zones due to fearing losses. For example, if somebody is unhappy in their job, they often don’t switch

“Two-part steers” are one of the most effective verbal communication methods that I use as a doctor. It will help improve your interpersonal relationships. • 1st part - Acknowledge what the other person has said - shows listening, empathy, understanding • 2nd part - Expand

One of the main reasons I even created this account was to provide myself with a documented trajectory of understanding the human brain and body to deeper levels. Progressively learning and understanding more each day, is giving me a strong sense of satisfaction. Trajectory >>>

People who can accurately judge what they know and what they don’t know are the highest performers. Before completing a task, rate your confidence as a %. Then after the task, rate your actual performance as a %. You can then judge whether you were over-confident or

I think the biggest thing is reframing negative self-talk from your brain into an action plan - so reframe “I can’t do this/this is too hard” to “I’ll learn how to do this” with steps on how you’re going to learn it. This pushes you to areas that you’ve never been to before.

Common myth that confidence comes from getting easy wins. That is fragile confidence that depends on things going smoothly. A tough challenge will collapse that confidence quickly. Jump into the fire of a tough challenge, don’t complain, embrace it and get feedback off a mentor.

The mechanisms behind doing muscle strengthening twice per week and this reduction in death risk: 1. Improved metabolism of sugar 2. Reduces fat around the major organs 3. Stops blood vessels getting stiff 4. Reduces inflammation 5. Reduces falls

Tonnes of research now showing that muscle strength is correlated with reduced death rates. Muscle strengthening for all major muscle groups 2 or more times per week over at least a 5 year period is associated with up to a 25% reduction in deaths. Get the gym sessions done guys.

“Large sample size thinking” should be firmly rooted into your mindset 1. It places negative events/people into an overall perspective keeping your emotional state neutral 2. It leads you to discovering repeated truths instead of being detracted by single rare events I often

The TLDR of all this is: 🕶️🟥Red/amber glasses at night (2-3 hours before usual bed time) = good. 🕶️🟡 Yellow glasses in the day = not needed. 🌞Get 20–60 minutes of natural outdoor light exposure within the first 1–2 hours after waking if you can.

My analysis of @marcosllorente’s yellow & red glasses/blue light opinions: ❌ 1. Llorente’s first claim that blue light can damage mitochondria has been shown in lab skin cells in a new study which would have implications for tissue ageing - cancer, muscle loss, dementia, skin

Analysis of Marcos Llorente’s coloured glasses/blue light theory on its way…

It’s actually much worse than that. Sleep deprivation leads to long-term high cortisol. Long-term high cortisol shifts your metabolism to higher fat formation in the body.

I keep saying it but sleep is key to everything. You’re trying to lose fat for example with a new diet/exercise regime ? One study even showed a group with 5.5 hours sleep lost 55% less fat than a group with 8.5 hours sleep on a calorie restriction. Want to lose fat ? Then sleep.