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Welcome to the 405th edition of Brain Food, a weekly newsletter full of timeless wisdom to help you in life and business.
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We learn valuable lessons when we experience failure and setbacks. Most of us wait for those failures to happen to us, however, instead of seeking them out. But deliberately making mistakes can give us the knowledge we need to more easily overcome obstacles in the future.
— Practice Failure
IDEAS
"The biggest challenge, said Mr. Hilgenberg, isn't the technology, it is the mind-set of the people—their reluctance to embrace radical change until circumstances force them to. 'In the middle of success it's not easy to understand why you need to change now,' he says."
— How Volkswagen's $50 Billion Plan to Beat Tesla Short-Circuited
"Scientists like Einstein couldn't do laboratory experiments. They relied on thought experiments, and a thought experiment is like a historical narrative. And a narrative is an investigative tool. It uses the mind to isolate variables in the effort to simulate how something happened, in science and in history, and to determine the causes."
— Historians Can Be Scientists Too (Complement with Thought Experiments)
TINY THOUGHT
The biggest generator of long term results is learning to do things when you don't feel like doing them.
Discipline is more reliable than motivation.
TKP #101 Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal is a PhD Game Designer who advocates for the use of video games to help people learn skills that transfer to the real world, heal physical problems, and improve attitudes and self-esteem in children.
We discuss:
- When video games help you and when they hurt you
- Kids and gaming, including how much is too much
- Why kids should do video games BEFORE homework
- The benefits and drawbacks of single player vs. multiple player games
- Warning signs for addiction
- Building resilience and self-esteem
- Improving your decision making
- How games help predict the future
... And so much more.
Listen and Learn (Apple | Spotify | Show Notes | YouTube | or join us to get a transcript).
A QUOTE TO THINK ABOUT
"Nearly everyone is pleased to acknowledge a small debt. Many are grateful in acknowledging a small debt. Many are grateful in acknowledging a moderate one. But there is hardly a man who does not, for a really great indebtedness, return ingratitude."
— La Rochefoucauld
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P.S. Epictetus is right.
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