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MasterClass
| Week One | Reframing | Mindfulness | Challenge | Physical Exercise | Sleep | Virtuous cycles | Vicious cycles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week Two | Mindfulness | Intensity | Humility | ||||
| Week Three | Challenge | Constancy | Generosity | ||||
| Week Four | Challenge | Constancy | Generosity |
Week 1:
Week 2:
- Anxiety
- Amygdala
- Top-Down Neuroscience
- Sympathetics / Parasympathetics
- Dread
- Worry and Rumination
- Threat Mode
- Resilience, Anti-Fragility, Grit
- Adrenaline, Yerkes-Dodson
- Acceptance
Week 3:
- Front-Back Neuroscience
- Default Mode Network (default attention)
- Task Positive Network (task attention)
- Salience
- Flow
- Distraction
- Deadline benefit
Week 4:
- Right-Left Neuroscience
- Growth mindset vs Fixed mindset
- Frustration and Satisfaction
- Self-concepts
- Ideals
- Encouragement
- Service
- Vital engagement
Key Claims
Topic Overview
Our approach focuses on three "problems" — anxiety, distraction, and self-concepts — and three corresponding "solutions" — ideals, work, and service. Each problem-solution pair relates to a part of the brain: anxiety and ideals relate to the amygdala versus the appraisal cortex; distraction and work relate to task attention and default attention; and self-concepts and service relate to the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Resolving the problem, and striving for the solution involves applying the three parts of the soul — intellect, memory, and will — in a particular way.
| Part of the soul | Anxiety -> Acceptance | Distraction -> Work | Hyperfocus -> Ideals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intellect | Reframing | Order | Sincerity |
| Memory | Mindfulness | Intensity | Humility |
| Will | Challenge | Constancy | Generosity |
