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Atomic Habits, Page 144

Like muscles responding to regular weight training, particular regions of the brain adapt as they are used and atrophy as they are abandoned.


Focus, Page 144

If our emotional circuitry… perceives an immediate threat it will flood us with hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which ready us to hit or run.


Atomic Habits, Page 144

…no sooner has frequent repetition cut a pathway… difficulty vanishes; the actions become so automatic that they can be performed while the mind is otherwise engaged.


The 5 Levels of Leadership, Page 144

The key to building a winning team is recognizing, selecting, and retaining the best people from the ones you attract.


The Coaching Habit, Page 144

…use the phrase ‘Out of curiosity.’ What this does is shift the question from perhaps coming across as an inquisition to being a more noble inquiry.


The Effective Manager, Page 144

Great managers will tell you that they give out far more positive than negative performance communications.


The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Page 144

The fight response to a feeling of insufficient value is to call attention to ourselves more aggressively.


ReWork, Page 144

When you get suckered into an arms race, you wind up in a never-ending battle that costs you massive amounts of money, time, and drive. And it forces you to constantly be on the defensive, too.


Leaders Eat Last, Page 144

In small organizations, where we able to know everyone, it is much easier for us to do the work necessary to look after them.


The Messy Middle, Page 144

We vastly underestimate how much the products we use impact the products we create.