Want To Upgrade Your Brain? Stop Doing These 7 Things Immediately.

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• “Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.” — Zig Ziglar

• To optimize your brain, consume less, and consume higher-quality information.

• The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” — Bill Copeland

• If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.

• Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.” —

• By following this process, you’ll start getting wins FAST in the morning. You’ll intentionally prime your brain to look for more ways to succeed and WIN that day.

• you want to train your brain to seek after quality and not quantity of information.

• Your identity is that which you are most committed to. You can know what you are committed to most by your results, not by what you say you’re committed to.

• Your current weight, your current income, and your current relationships are all things are things you are currently committed to. They are things you have accepted and said “yes” to in your life.

• To upgrade your brain, you need to have a SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE future self. Decide who you will become (remember, no more than 3 priorities).

• If you say “yes” to junk media, that shows your standard. It you say “yes” to wasting your time, that shows your standard.

• Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction

• By our nature as rational, conscious creatures, we cannot help but think of the future. But most people, out of fear, limit their view of the future to a narrow range. Thoughts of tomorrow, a few weeks ahead, perhaps a vague plan for the months to come. We are generally dealing with so many immediate battles that it is hard for us to lift our gaze above the moment. It is a law of power, however, that the further and deeper we contemplate the future, the greater our capacity to shape it to our desires

• 10x is the equivalent of going from crawling to walking; from not knowing the alphabet to reading; from living in your parent’s basement to living on your own; from being awkward and shy to a bold and emotionally-intelligent leader. 10x is tantamount to going from horse and buggy to a car. You may be in the same genre — such as transportation — but you’re not comparing apples to apples. A non-linear change has taken place. It’s fundamentally a qualitative shift, more than a quantitative one. The transformation occurs by operating from a seemingly impossible and imagined future, and takes you in a non-linearly and radically different direction and approach than what you (and everyone else) have been doing to this point

• “Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.” — Cal Newport

• The 80–20, or Pareto principle, is true in all components of life. 80% of your results come from 20% of the things you do.

• 80% of the information you consume right now is literally holding you back from becoming your future self.

• To upgrade your brain, you need to have a SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE future self. Decide who you will become (remember, no more than 3 priorities).

• do you wake up consuming junk that then (literally) scatters your brain?

• Consuming junk in the morning puts your brain into a state of over-analysis. Over-analysis is crippling. Think about how many different ideas and bits of information you can find within 5 minutes on Instagram. Starting your day like this will leave your brain confused and scattered. You will be trapped in a state of over-analysis for the rest of the day.