i’m currently reading The Art of Bitfulness by Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani.

the first half of the book didn’t add much value. but i’m glad i kept reading.

one very good technique i’ve learnt is that of using any note app as a working memory for your brain.

what happens now in the age of constant notifications, distractions and attention-stealing is that you see a lot of information throughout the day, mark many as read later or important but keep forgetting many of them becuase the human brain can only hold around 4 objects in the working memory (this i quote from the MOOC Learning how to Learn). the same would happen with me.

i used the technique today and it was helpful.

this is all that i wrote -

Pocket read wise and insta paper

Fear exists in the space between - in the uncertainty. If you go and there’s a bear, the fear ends. If there’s no bear, the fear ends.

Find a way to listen to almost unknown artists on yt and yt music. Endorphins are neuropeptides - similar to morphine drug for pain. They reduce pain and increase pleasure.

  • This is actually a recurring theme in neuropharmacology — many of the brain’s own chemicals are incredibly potent but therapeutically useless precisely because you can’t get them where they need to go from the outside. So pharmaceutical research often focuses on finding smaller molecules that mimic the effect and can cross the barrier, rather than trying to deliver the real thing.
  • Upregulation through exercise

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