We are drawn to behaviors that earn us respect, approval, admiration, and status.
We’re in constant pursuit of ways to stand out. Most days, we’d rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves.
🧠Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explains, “it is emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or indifferent.”
📚❎To begin and fail is far more reinforcing to achievement, then it would be to plan, prepare, and procrastinate.
🔐 The key to mastering a new skill is to start with repetition, and not perfection.
🤯You must get your reps in.
👉🏻 Neuroscientists call this long-term potentiation, which refers to the strengthening of connections between neurons in the brain based on patterns of activity.
🔂 Each repetition improves and tightens the neural connections.
🔂 Frequency is the key to habit transformation. Not necessarily time specific. It is the frequency that makes the difference. Therefore, to build a habit you need to practice it.