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Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 5:13 am On Sep 13

How to Find and Fix The Cause of Your Bad Habits

WHERE CRAVINGS COME FROM

A craving is just a specific manifestation of a deeper underlying motive.

Some of our underlying motives include:

• Conserve energy

• Obtain food and water

• Find love and reproduce

• Connect and bond with others

• Win social acceptance and approval

• Reduce uncertainty

• Achieve status and prestige

Your brain did not evolve with a desire to smoke cigarettes or to check Instagram or to play video
games.

At a deep level, you simply want to reduce
uncertainty and relieve anxiety, to win social acceptance and approval, or to achieve status.


Look at nearly any product that is habit-forming and you’ll see that it does not create a new motivation, but rather latches onto the underlying motives of human nature.

• Find love and reproduce = using Tinder

• Connect and bond with others = browsing Facebook

• Win social acceptance and approval = posting on
Instagram

• Reduce uncertainty = searching on Google

• Achieve status and prestige = playing video games

Your habits are modern-day solutions to ancient desires.
New versions of old vices.
The underlying motives behind human behavior remain the same.


The specific habits we perform differ based on the period of history.

Here’s the powerful part: there are many different ways to address the same underlying motive.

One person might learn to reduce stress by smoking a cigarette. Another person learns to ease their anxiety by going for a run.

Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.

Once you associate a solution with the problem you need to solve, you keep coming back to it.
Habits are all about associations.

These associations determine whether we predict a habit to be worth repeating or not.

As we covered in our discussion of the 1st Law, your brain is continually absorbing information and
noticing cues in the environment.

Every time you perceive a cue, your brain runs a simulation and makes a prediction about what to do in the next moment.

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 5:24 am On Sep 13

The cause of your habits is actually the prediction that precedes them. The prediction leads to a feeling.”

“Highlight the benefits of avoiding a bad habit to make it seem unattractive.”

“Habits are attractive when we associate them with positive feelings, and unattractive when we associate them with negative feelings.

Create a motivation ritual by doing something you enjoy immediately before a difficult habit.”       

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 12:15 am On Sep 14

The Law of Least Effort


“Human behavior follows the Law of Least Effort.”


“We will naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work.”


“Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.”


“Reduce the friction associated with good behaviors. When friction is low, habits are easy.”

“Increase the friction associated with bad behaviors. When friction is high, habits are difficult.”

“Prime your environment to make future actions easier.”

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 12:21 am On Sep 14

How to Stop Procrastinating by Using the Two-Minute Rule

The Two-Minute Rule states, "When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do."

“Standardize before you optimize. You can’t improve a habit that doesn’t exist.”

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 12:30 am On Sep 14

The Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change


“The 4th Law of Behavior Change is make it satisfying.”

“We are more likely to repeat a behavior when the experience is satisfying.”

“The human brain evolved to prioritize immediate rewards over delayed rewards.”

“The Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change:
What is immediately rewarded is repeated.
What is immediately punished is avoided.”


“To get a habit to stick you need to feel immediately successful—even if it’s in a small way.”

The fourth law of behavior change—make it satisfying—increases the odds that a behavior will be repeated next time.”                

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 12:47 am On Sep 14

How to Stick with Good Habits Every Day

“One of the most satisfying feelings is the feeling of making progress.”

“A habit tracker is a simple way to measure whether you did a habit—like marking an X on a calendar.”



“Habit trackers and other visual forms of measurement can make your habits satisfying by providing clear evidence of your progress.”

“Don’t break the chain. Try to keep your habit streak alive.”

“Never miss twice. If you miss one day, try to get back on track as quickly as possible.”

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 12:52 am On Sep 14

How an Accountability Partner Changes Everything

“The inversion of the 4th Law of Behavior Change is make it unsatisfying.”

“We are less likely to repeat a bad habit if it is painful or unsatisfying.”

“An accountability partner can create an immediate cost to inaction. We care deeply about what others think of us, and we do not want others to have a lesser opinion of us.”

“A habit contract can be used to add a social cost to any behavior. It makes the costs of violating your promises public and painful.”

“Knowing that someone else is watching you can be a powerful motivator.”


Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 12:56 am On Sep 14

The Goldilocks Rule—
How to Stay Motivated in Life and Work




“The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities.”

“The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.”

“As habits become routine, they become less interesting and less satisfying. We get bored.”

“Anyone can work hard when they feel motivated. It’s the ability to keep going when work isn’t exciting that makes the difference.”

“Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.” 

Source            

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 1:43 am On Sep 17

How to Win Friends and Influence People By Dale Carnegie



Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business.
Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.




Research done a few years ago under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching uncovered a most important and significant fact—a fact later confirmed by additional studies made at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.




These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one’s financial success is due to one’s technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 1:48 am On Sep 17

In the heyday of his activity, John D. Rockefeller said that:
“the ability to deal with people is as
purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee.”

“And I will pay more for that ability,” said Rockefeller, “than for any other under the sun.”

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 1:52 am On Sep 17

The University of Chicago and the United Y.M.C.A. Schools conducted a survey to determine what
adults want to study.



That survey cost $25,000 and took two years.
The last part of the survey was made in Meriden,
Connecticut. It had been chosen as a typical American town.

Every adult in Meriden was interviewed and requested to answer 156 questions—questions such as:

“What is your business or profession? Your education?
How do you spend your spare time?
What is your income?
Your hobbies?
Your ambitions?
Your problems?.
What subjects are you most interested in studying?”
And so on.

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 1:57 am On Sep 17

That survey revealed that health is the prime interest of adults and that their second interest is people; how to understand and get along with people; how to make people like you; and how to win others to your way of thinking.




So the committee conducting this survey resolved to conduct such a course for adults in Meriden. They searched diligently for a practical textbook on the subject and found not one.



Finally they approached one of the world’s outstanding authorities on adult education and asked him if he knew of any book that met the needs of this group.

No,” he replied, "I know what those adults want. But the book they need has never been written.”

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 1:59 am On Sep 17

I knew from experience that this statement was true, for I myself had been searching for years to
discover a practical, working handbook on human relations.




Since no such book existed, I have tried to write one for use in my own courses. And here it is. I hope you like it.




The rules we have set down here are not mere theories or guesswork. They work like magic. Incredible as it sounds, I have seen the application of these principles literally revolutionize the lives of many people.

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 2:03 am On Sep 17

To illustrate: A man with 314 employees joined one of these courses. For years, he had driven and criticized and condemned his employees without stint or discretion.





Kindness, words of appreciation and encouragement were alien to his lips. After studying the principles discussed in this book, this employer sharply altered his philosophy of life.






His organization is now inspired with a new loyalty, a new enthusiasm, a new spirit of teamwork. Three hundred and fourteen enemies have been turned into 314 friends.







As he proudly said in a speech before the class:

“When I used to walk through my establishment, no one greeted me. My employees actually looked the other way when they saw me approaching.
But now they are all my friends and even the
janitor calls me by my first name.”




This employer gained more profit, more leisure and—what is infinitely more important—he found far more happiness in his business and in his home.

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 2:08 am On Sep 17

Countless numbers of salespeople have sharply increased their sales by the use of these principles.

Many have opened up new accounts—accounts that they had formerly solicited in vain.


Executives have been given increased authority, increased pay.




One executive reported a large increase in salary because he applied these truths.

Another, an executive in the Philadelphia Gas Works Company, was slated for demotion when he was sixty-five because of his belligerence, because of his inability to lead people skillfully. This training not only saved him from the demotion but brought him a promotion with increased pay.




On innumerable occasions, spouses attending the banquet given at the end of the course have told me that their homes have been much happier since their husbands or wives started this training.

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 2:14 am On Sep 17

“Compared to what we ought to be,” said the famous Professor William James of Harvard, “compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.



We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources.
Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.”




Those powers which you “habitually fail to use”! The sole purpose of this book is to help you discover, develop and profit by those dormant and unused assets.




“Education,” said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, “is the ability to meet
life’s situations.”

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 2:22 am On Sep 17

If by the time you have finished reading the first three chapters of this book, if you aren’t then a little
better equipped to meet life’s situations, then I shall consider this book to be a total failure so far as you are concerned.





“For the great aim of education,” said Herbert Spencer, “is not knowledge but action.”

And this is an action book.

Dale Carnegie
1936

Education/ Re: Thread for Bookworms, Philomaths and Scholastics by AnonymousAyo(m) : 2:36 am On Sep 17

Literature/ Re: Thread for Lovers of Novels and Fiction Books by AnonymousAyo(m) : 9:33 pm On Sep 18

H.G Wells

Herbert George Wells(21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories.

His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography.

Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction."

Literature/ Re: Thread for Lovers of Novels and Fiction Books by AnonymousAyo(m) : 10:04 pm On Sep 18

In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking,
even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale.






A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web.



His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. 


Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while Charles Fort referred to him as a "wild talent".



Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed “Wells's law” – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic!".









His most notable science fiction works include:

•The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, 

•The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), 

•The Invisible Man (1897), 

•The War of the Worlds (1898)

and the military science fiction 
•The War in the Air (1907).





Novels of social realism such as 

•Kipps (1905)

and 

•The History of Mr Polly (1910),

which describe lower-middle-class English life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens,

but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in 
•Tono-Bungay (1909),
a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.




Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a Darwinian context.




He was also an outspoken socialist from a young age, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views.




In his later years, he wrote less fiction and more works expounding his political and social views, sometimes giving his profession as that of journalist.




Wells was a diabetic and co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934.

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