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The Science of Self

Despite so many studies being done on improving ourselves, it can be hard to find specific, actionable steps to make our lives better. Bestselling authors cut out the jargon and pop psychology to give insight and tips to be a better you. If you want proven ways and applicable tips to live a better life, listen in weekly and improve your life from the inside out!

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37:28

Lower Your Standards, Raise Your Results: The Power...

The Science of Self ·

2023/12/29

Looking to boost your motivation and productivity? Lower your standards and raise your results with the power of action! Watch this video for some game-changing tips.Think Less; Do More: Create An Action Bias, Stop Overthinking, and Learn How to Actually Change Your Life (Live a Disciplined Life Book 15) By: Peter HollinsHear it Here - https://adbl.co/46YVcld00:00:00 Think Less, Do More00:02:07 Lower Your Standards—Yes, Really!00:09:57 Forget Perfection.00:11:43 Focus On Process, Not

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26:38

One Underappreciated Way To Genuinely Feel Better

The Science of Self ·

2023/02/23

Hear it Here - bit.ly/3FooG0d00:02:42 Emotional Regulation 00:10:02 The Life Cycle of an Emotion • Keeping a gratitude journal is a great way to create genuine feelings of positivity. • Rather than creating good emotions and getting rid of negative ones, we can practice emotional self-regulation and become conscious masters of our own ever-unfolding emotional experience.• What makes an emotion good or bad is the context and our own goals and values. We regulate when we decide which emotions to

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23:38

Socrates’ Endless Questions

The Science of Self ·

2023/02/16

Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/GeniusHollins00:09:20 1. Clarification Questions00:09:28 2. Probing Assumptions00:09:35 3. Probing Rationale, reasons, evidence00:09:44 4. Questioning Viewpoints and perspectives00:09:51 5. Probing Implications and consequences00:10:02 6. Questions About the question00:15:09 The Socratic method as a thinking technique 00:17:46 Turning the questions on ourselves • Socrates’ genius traits included curiosity, intellectual honesty, and non-conventionality.• Though not

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26:40

Understanding Your Needs

The Science of Self ·

2023/02/09

Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollinsWelcome to the science of self 00:00:24 Don't know what your personal values are?00:12:59 STEP ONE: CLEAR YOUR MIND 00:14:15 STEP TWO: START A LIST 00:16:45 STEP THREE: PULL IT ALL TOGETHER 00:18:25 STEP FOUR: RANK YOUR VALUES 00:19:39 STEP FIVE: LET YOUR VALUES COME ALIVE 00:20:56 STEP SIX: TRY THEM ON FOR SIZE • Understanding your needs helps you discover your values and principles, ensuring the decisions you make fulfill you on a deeper level. • A

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23:09

Avoid The Trap Of Toxic Positivity

The Science of Self ·

2023/02/02

Hear it Here - bit.ly/3FooG0d• Toxic positivity is a kind of cognitive distortion and is an overgeneralization of a positive and optimistic attitude. It consists of denial, minimization, and invalidation of your own experience. Toxic positivity grows with shame, silence, and judgment. Positivity itself isn’t toxic, but denying our reality is. Human beings are wholes that contain both good and bad. • We can embrace the whole instead of the good by watching the phrases we use, making friends with

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18:41

Einstein And Combinatorial Play

The Science of Self ·

2023/01/26

Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/GeniusHollins• Einstein’s genius traits included curiosity, having broad areas of interest (i.e. being a polymath), and a refusal to bow to convention.• Einstein is known today as one of the 20th century’s most influential scientific thinkers, and was considered by many to be a genius in both mathematics and physics. He won the Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect, but he is best known today for his groundbreaking theory on relativity and his famous E=mc2

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27:28

The Core Of Decisions: You

The Science of Self ·

2023/01/19

Often, decisions can be consciously articulated. If you want Chinese food for dinner, that’s easy to justify. But for both quicker and bigger decisions, you are likely more influenced by your subconscious than you realize. The importance of knowing potential subconscious influencing factors is thus extremely high to deciphering your actions.There are three models of subconscious needs and desires, the first of which is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. He articulates the following needs:

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21:24

“Remember That You Must Die”

The Science of Self ·

2023/01/12

• The ancient Stoics were masters of living in the present. • One way of rethinking your relationship to the past is to adopt the Stoic attitude of amor fati. This translates roughly to “love of one’s fate.” Whatever happens is embraced, wanting “nothing to be different.” To practice it, look at events as neutrally as possible and then respond to them with a simple mantra like “good.” By focusing on action and solutions, we are able to transform adversity.• Negative visualization is where we

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19:24

Spartacus And The Servile Wars

The Science of Self ·

2023/01/05

• Spartacus was able to do what he did because he was exquisitely focused on his goal – justice. Freedom is being outside of the control and dominion of any other being except yourself. Even if you are enslaved, you can emancipate yourself first by refusing to submit to injustice.• It may feel like you have nothing but use what you do have, reach out to others, and do whatever it takes to get where you want to be.• Finally, there is no virtue in tolerating something you cannot bear, instead of

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20:08

Intellectual Honesty

The Science of Self ·

2022/12/29

• Intellectual honesty is also important, and this includes humility and the ability to admit that you don’t know something, or that you have made a mistake. Geniuses know that stubbornness, bias, expectation and ego can undermine genuine learning.• Most genius types are usually polymaths (skilled in many areas) and have broad rather than narrow interests. They are well-read and make connections between all disciplines, see relationships and analogies, and find inspiration in all fields, never

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23:51

Upgrade Your Psychological Toolkit With Stoic Amor...

The Science of Self ·

2022/12/22

• The ancient Stoics were masters of living in the present. • One way of rethinking your relationship to the past is to adopt the Stoic attitude of amor fati. This translates roughly to “love of one’s fate.” Whatever happens is embraced, wanting “nothing to be different.” To practice it, look at events as neutrally as possible and then respond to them with a simple mantra like “good.” By focusing on action and solutions, we are able to transform adversity.• Negative visualization is where we

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21:02

The Battle Of Thermopylae

The Science of Self ·

2022/12/15

• The Spartans lived by a set of principles and core beliefs that guided everything they did, and this is ultimately what allowed them to act with strength, conviction, and discipline. When you commit to a cause and belief greater than yourself, you become unstoppable, and even death itself is no longer something you fear.• We don’t have to believe the Spartans were perfect in every way to appreciate the courage it took to live life the way they lived it. We can be inspired in our own lives and ask,

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15:27

Think Like a Genius

The Science of Self ·

2022/12/08

• Geniuses come in all shapes and sizes, from all walks of life and all historical periods, but they can all be seen to possess certain predictable characteristics and mindsets. • If we can model our own lives on the traits we find in great and successful thinkers, we too can learn to fulfill more of our intellectual and creative potential.• The first trait is a lust for learning and an insatiable curiosity about how the world works, and why. This is knowledge and understanding pursued for its own

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46:13

Master The Art Of Distress Tolerance And Self-Soothing

The Science of Self ·

2022/12/01

• We need distress tolerance skills to help us cope with extremely trying or painful moments, or emergency situations. When we’re distressed, it’s easy to default to clumsy, destructive, or unconscious ways of coping—these are false coping mechanisms. • Self-soothing is a way to acknowledge and accept pain that is inevitable—without making it any bigger than it should be. It is not distraction or avoidance, but about anchoring in the present using your five senses—a technique called grounding. •

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19:49

Julius Caesar And The Battle Of Alesia

The Science of Self ·

2022/11/17

• No matter how bleak things look, stay calm and take heart.: you always have the power to choose your response, and you can often turn a disadvantage into an advantage simply by changing your perspective.• When faced with a challenge or obstacle, try to think outside of the box and imagine a solution beyond your current way of thinking. Understand the rules, like Caesar, and then be brave and audacious enough to rewrite them completely to your advantage.• There is never any reason for despair or

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33:19

Strategic Luck Planning

The Science of Self ·

2022/11/10

• According to author Max Gunther, there are 13 attitudes, traits and habits that set lucky people apart from unlucky ones. Lucky people clearly understand the difference between luck and planning, and never confuse them. They repeat hard work that gets results, and are grateful for luck when it happens, knowing they weren’t responsible. • Lucky people find the “fast flow” of people and information and position themselves within it, being extroverted and sociable and building connections with others

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30:18

The Mindset Of The Present

The Science of Self ·

2022/11/03

• Stay present. It’s something we hear frequently, but what does it mean? Simply put, we are more often caught in the past or looking forward to the future. When we are caught in the past, we are affected by things and events that we have no control over. When we are looking forward to the future (excessively, of course), we are also affected by that which we have no control over. • Author Eckhart Tolle has great insight into the problem of fixating on the past or future; he once said, “All

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17:31

Alexander The Great And The Land Bridge To Tyre Island

The Science of Self ·

2022/10/27

• No matter how bleak things look, stay calm and take heart: you always have the power to choose your response, and you can often turn a disadvantage into an advantage simply by changing your perspective.• When faced with a challenge or obstacle, try to think outside of the box and imagine a solution beyond your current way of thinking. Understand the rules, like Caesar, and then be brave and audacious enough to rewrite them completely to your advantage.• There is never any reason for despair or

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37:49

Improve Your Luck with Wiseman’s Four Factors

The Science of Self ·

2022/10/20

• Study findings shared in Wiseman’s book The Luck Factor point to four factors that are responsible for a mindset most prone to luck. While these attitudes and traits don’t literally cause luck in themselves, they do lay the groundwork and make us more able to capitalize on luck when it comes our way.• The first factor is openness to new experiences, which means being aware and perceptive of lucky turns and emerging events in your environment, rather than shut out to novel possibilities. We can

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28:12

Suffer Better, Suffer Less

The Science of Self ·

2022/10/13

• The fourth noble truth encourages us to follow the eight-fold path, i.e. we need to understand suffering but also take concrete action towards our intended life every day. We can use proven and effective tools to help us suffer better, and suffer less.• Firstly, we can learn the power of reframing so that we investigate the “rules” we have for deciding what counts as pain or suffering in the first place. Much suffering disappears when we take our own assumptions and interpretations out of the

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