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Even if you erase your thoughts after a few minutes, just the act of writing them down facilitates a constructive thinking process like nothing else.

We tend to think differently when we express with different equipment, and many people find that writing and drawing by hand unwraps a broader palette of ideas.

The future of work is increasingly cognitive.

…deeply embedded human drives are not known for responding to rationality.

The optimal way to deploy our human brains is sequentially.

Once we… start systematically rethinking how we work, we’ll inevitably create short-term inconvenience on our way to long-term improvement.

You can change what you think about or how you behave, but you can’t force yourself to be happy.

Turn up the heat, and the unthinkable becomes surprisingly thinkable.

…lock yourself into a virtuous path… make it impossible – or somehow unthinkably disgraceful or sinful – to leave the path.

…your belief becomes a form of self-control: a self-fulfilling mandate. I think I won’t, therefore I don’t.