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CrazyBusy:
…positive emotions matter more than people realize. Usually regarded as a result rather than a cause, positive emotion is in fact a powerful abuse of good results of any kind.
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044 |
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CrazyBusy:
As a person practices any activity, the planning and executing of it moves gradually from one part of the brain to another… with practice – often arduous practice – the activity gets rooted in the back of the cerebellum… the automatic pilot of the brain.
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CrazyBusy:
…the cerebellum can’t run the whole show. Nor would you want it to. You wouldn’t want to live your life on automatic pilot. Conscious, deliberate choice is essential.
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CrazyBusy:
…the goal of all the prioritizing and planning is to program you and your brain so that habit, routine, and other automatic functions can take over a big chunk of the work, freeing up your frontal lobs to the creative, sophisticated work…
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CrazyBusy:
Emotion precedes action. Emotion turns action on or turns it off.
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CrazyBusy:
The rush and the gush become allies if worry gives way to hope. The forgotten variable – emotion, turning negative emotional energy into positive – is the most crucial of all.
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CrazyBusy:
If you turn uncertainty and insecurity upside down, opportunities drop out – and this is certainly an uncertain and insecure age.
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CrazyBusy:
In today’s world, free time or down time – time to do nothing but just hang out and think or feel or listen and watch – has become as rare as silence.
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CrazyBusy:
From all this busyness, another of the many paradoxes of modern life emerges: The faster we go, the more we take on, and the more we take on, the more there is for us to do.
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CrazyBusy:
Blather and clutter so predominate the gush that we accept them without realizing what we’re doing or putting up any resistance.
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