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In difficult and challenging times, we must embrace the many positive things in our lives, however small…

Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes the stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges.

For all the peculiar challenges to losing weight, one of the usual strategies is still effective: The more carefully and frequently you monitor yourself, the better you’ll control yourself.

When you pick your battles, look beyond the immediate challenges and put your life in perspective. Are you where you want to be? What could be better? What can you do about it?

If there are extra challenges ahead… figure out where you’ll get the extra willpower, such as by cutting back on other demands.

Part of the special challenge of being a startup is the near impossibility of having your idea, company, or product be noticed by anyone, let alone a competitor.

In a startup situation, things constantly go wrong.

Happiness can lead people to experience intense effort and long hours as less unpleasant and more enjoyable, set more challenging goals, and think more quickly, flexibly, and broadly about problems.

Games that offer increasingly harder cognitive challenges… drive positive brain changes. But… these skills do not necessarily transfer well to life outside the video screen.

Because technology can evolve much faster than we can, our natural capacity to process information is likely to be increasingly inadequate to handle the abundance of change, choice, and challenge that is characteristic of modern life.