James Clear summarizes @danbharris book, 10% Happier. My favorite parts from @JamesClear summary and my thoughts:
Many people assume they must be paranoid and worry if they want to stay at the top of their game.
VK: In biz you need to be paranoid. Identify risks. Address them. BUT should not have constant anxiety. Meditation helps to identify that anxiety.
VK: In biz you need to be paranoid. Identify risks. Address them. BUT should not have constant anxiety. Meditation helps to identify that anxiety.
People care a lot about the bio on an author's page.
VK: Very true. I think people actually care a lot about author's picture.
VK: Very true. I think people actually care a lot about author's picture.
Meditation is like doing focused reps for your mind. Focus on the breath, lose your focus, bring it back to the breath, repeat. This is the whole game. Keep bringing your mind back to the breath.
VK: It is like taking your mind to the gym
VK: It is like taking your mind to the gym
How to meditate: sit somewhere comfortable, keep a straight spine, focus on a spot, and bring your focus back to your breath whenever you lose it.
VK: Most important - find a place that works for you. A place where you can do it every day. I have favorite benches in parks.
VK: Most important - find a place that works for you. A place where you can do it every day. I have favorite benches in parks.
Meditation helps you shut down your monkey mind for a moment.
VK: To me meditation helps to observe the monkeyness of my mind.
VK: To me meditation helps to observe the monkeyness of my mind.
We have 3 habitual responses to everything we experience: 1) We want it. 2) We reject it. 3) We zone out. Mindfulness is a fourth response. Viewing what happens in the world without an emotional response about it.
VK: Observing your mind as an outsider is key feature
VK: Observing your mind as an outsider is key feature
“Mindfulness represents an alternative to living reactively.”
VK: It helps to bring conscious observing to subconscious action
VK: It helps to bring conscious observing to subconscious action
Mindfulness seems to be about awareness of the self. You recognize and acknowledge the things going on around you and the emotions you are feeling. Rather than let the emotion drive everything, you step outside of it and see it from afar.
Being mindful doesn’t change the problems in your life. You still need to take action, but the key is that mindfulness allows you to respond rather than react to the problems in your life.
VK: allows you to see them more clearly
VK: allows you to see them more clearly
Hedonic adaptation: the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.
VK: This is why buying things doesn't bring happiness - we get used to good things fast
VK: This is why buying things doesn't bring happiness - we get used to good things fast
Scientists have developed a term for the consequence of all our multitasking: continuous partial attention.
VK: We need to re-learn how to focus (NOT-multitask). Multitasking is a bad habit that can be de-trained by daily exercise of deliberate focus.
VK: We need to re-learn how to focus (NOT-multitask). Multitasking is a bad habit that can be de-trained by daily exercise of deliberate focus.
Make eye contact and smile at people. This simple habit that will make you feel more connected and much better each day.
VK: YES! Start with your relatives. Then go to the shopping mall and do this.
VK: YES! Start with your relatives. Then go to the shopping mall and do this.
You can read James Clear summary here jamesclear.com/book-summaries…
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