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How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard) 🧵 for @threadapalooza

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This is Demis Hassabis. He’s Google's DeepMind CEO, who’s studied AI for 30+ years. In his new interview with 60 Minutes, he revealed mind-blowing facts about health & AI that 99% of people wouldn’t know. Here are my top 8 takeaways: 🧵 (No. 6 will shock you)

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She’s reinventing the science of aging. Meet Julie Clark: the 56-year-old whose biological age clocks in at 36. She’s outpacing Bryan Johnson, the $2M-a-year biohacker, on a mere $4/day. Here's her simple anti-aging routine for peak health and lasting longevity: 🧵

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The most dangerous, oddly glorified, yet overlooked problem in the world: Overthinking and underacting. It's why you're stressed, depressed and your immune system is always in chaos. Here's Eckhart Tolle 7-step protocol to escape the prison of overthinking: 🧵

@thegarrettscott @readwise save thread

Every saturday morning for the last 6 years, I watch this obscure video. It's Jeff Bezos talking about leadership, but really, it's the most succinct blueprint for how to achieve greatness I have ever found. You should watch it often, but I summarized it here: (thread, sry)

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@EDSecMcMahon @FullSail @readwise save thread

Had the opportunity to tour @FullSail on their 46th anniversary before being honored with the Icon Award last week. Great work is being done to prepare students with a hands-on learning experience in entertainment and technology.

@TaylorPearsonMe @readwise save thread

1/ James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Game is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Each time I reread I am struck by how grateful I am that he wrote it. amzn.to/2DGbUrg

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1/ A thread of my most popular threads

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@bpoppenheimer @readwise save thread

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer. He wasn’t playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice. Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.” Coach replied, “Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don’t worry about what you’re doing.” Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you’re going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.” And then he recommended that Brady meet Greg Harden, a counselor who worked in the athletic department. Brady went to Harden’s office and whined, “I’m never going to get my chance. They’re only giving me 2 reps.” Harden replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.” “So that’s what I did,” Brady said. “They’d put me in for those 2 reps, man, I’d sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. ‘Let’s go boys! Here we go! What play we got?’” “And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.” Soon, he was getting 4 reps. Then 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, “with this new mindset that Greg had instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you’re getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it’s the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.” Takeaway 1: Greg Harden telling Brady to focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban. “People come to me all the time and tell me they’re stuck,” Cuban explained. “They’re stuck in a job they don't like. They’re stuck working for a boss they don’t like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.” “I just tell them, ‘Be great.’” “The reality of life is that you can’t just always quit your job. You can’t just always go to your boss and say, ‘Give me the promotion, or I’m out of here.’” You can’t just always go to your coach and say, ‘Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.’ “So when you’re stuck, you’ve gotta find it within yourself to say, ‘Ok, this is where I am. And if I’m going to be here, I’m going to be great.’ Because if you’re great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.” Takeaway 2: In the field of strategic management, there is a distinction made between “lead measures” and “lag measures.” Lag measures are the results you’re trying to achieve: getting a promotion, winning a championship, being the starting quarterback. Lead measures are the actions that predictably drive those results.  The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” write, is that “a lead measure can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they write (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), “apply a disproportionate energy” to the things that are in your control. Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did. After he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”  Brady said he was aware of that, “and I know he’s a heck of a player. But I’ve always concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.” - - - “I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It didn’t. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I’ve seen. It perfectly illustrates something many of my favorite artists have described. When you go to the studio, Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas? “Well, I don’t always do it,” he admitted, “because it requires a stupid bravery all the time.” Mayer strums a couple chords without singing. A nice melody begins to form—“you can sit here all day [doing this] and go, ‘Okay, maybe that’s something.’” “But if you don’t go,” and then he starts improvising vocals, “Sunlights beating on the corner of the walls / and I’m a Mr. know-it-all / heaven calls / get yourself right / get yourself right,” he stops, raises his finger to his mouth, and explains, “if you’re not ouija boarding immediately, you’re wasting time.” “You just stare at the corner of the wall,” he says, before improvising some more, “Stare at the corner of the wall / try to get it going on / but I can’t sometimes / you just keep going 'til you get something / maybe I’m a little bit shy / maybe someday I’ll tell you why.” He stops singing to say, “you gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it. It doesn’t matter [what comes out of your mouth]...You gotta get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless…It’s hard to do.” Takeaway: When talking about their creative processes, many artists describe something similar to what Mayer refers to as “ouija boarding”—spitting out words and phrases, without worrying if they’re good or even make sense). When asked where his ideas came from, Pablo Picasso said, “As soon as I start to work, [ideas] well up in my pen. To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.” Joan Didion famously wrote, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking.” And Judd Apatow said that his movie scripts are all a product of the Down-Up theory: “Get the ideas DOWN then fix them UP.” “Give yourself permission to suck,” Apatow says. “Anything goes. Just get something down.” Make it exist, as they say, then make it good. There’s a neural explanation for this process... I recently shared a clip of Dr. Andrew Huberman explaining what happens in our brain when we sit down to focus. Whether we’re trying to read, write, create a song, or generate ideas—when you sit down and try to focus, Huberman explains, “The brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system...The agitation and stress that you feel at the beginning of something—when you’re trying to lean into it and you can’t focus: you feel agitated and your mind’s jumping all over the place—that is just a gate. You have to pass through that gate to get to the focus component.” He uses a great analogy: “You have to wade through some sewage before you can swim in clear water. That’s the way I always think about it.” Essentially: you become creative by creating, you get more creative the more you create. At the start of a focused creative session, bad ideas almost always come out first. You just have to wade through the sewage of bad ideas, “just keep going ‘til you get something,” as Mayer sang, ‘til you reach clear water. - - - “You gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it...You gotta get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless.” — John Mayer Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

@KemiBadenoch @readwise save thread

President Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is the democratically elected leader of Ukraine who bravely stood up to Putin’s illegal invasion. Under my leadership, and under successive Conservative Prime Ministers, we have and always will stand with Ukraine. President Trump is right that Europe needs to pull its weight - and that includes the UK. We need to get serious. The PM will have my support to increase defence spending - there is a fully funded plan to get to 2.5% sitting on his desk. That should be the bare minimum. Starmer should get on with it, get on a plane to Washington and show some leadership. We cannot afford to get this wrong.

@LloydLegalist @readwise save thread

Ryan was beginning to think that maybe his mom wasn't coming back.

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Just remember…

@nfergus @australian @readwise save thread

I talked to Greg Sheridan of @australian (for the first time publicly) about becoming a lapsed atheist and embracing the Christian faith. I'm afraid it's behind a paywall (unlike Heaven), so here are the quotes in a thread: 1/17

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I've recently found a productivity hack that moved me from bottom 10% conscientiousness to top 10% overnight, where other techniques have failed. I know there must be others out there who would find it useful, so l figured a twitter thread is the best thing short of a blog post.