⬅️ Meta Programming ⬅️ Pointer

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  • How to reduce ‘attention residue’ in your life
    • Get Your Life In Order (GYLIO) practices. Essentially, GYLIO is about bundling tasks into a single morning, day or week in order to clear your mind; learning to prioritise and find focus so that you can enjoy guilt-free downtime.
  • This is What Most People Get Wrong About Willpower
    • Ego-depletion is a theory that willpower is connected to a limited reserve of mental energy, and once you run out of that energy, you’re more likely to lose self-control.
    • But new studies suggest that we’ve been thinking about willpower all wrong, and that the theory of ego-depletion isn’t true.
    • Dweck concluded that signs of ego depletion were observed only in those test subjects who believed willpower was a limited resource.
    • Just as we don’t “run out” of joy or anger, willpower ebbs and flows based on what’s happening to us and how we feel.
    • Rather than quit, we need to understand that we don’t run out of willpower. Believing we do makes us less likely to accomplish our goals, by providing a rationale to quit when we could otherwise persist.
  • What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity
    • Psychologists use the term “enmeshment” to describe a situation where the boundaries between people become blurred, and individual identities lose importance. Enmeshment prevents the development of a stable, independent sense of self.
    • You can become enmeshed not with another person, but with your career.