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- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- A distraction can be defined as an urge to switch tasks.
- Adrenaline
- Adrenaline can be experienced in high performance states, low performance states, and paralysis/freeze reaction.
- Adrenaline increases IQ, fluency of speech, connections to others, executive function.
- Amygdala
- Anxiety
- Anxiety is caused by consistently avoiding a trigger.
- Anxiety is not a trait.
- Attention & Distraction
- Avoiding challenges, perceived as external, leads to vicious cycles.
- Challenge
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Constancy
- Contribution Guidelines
- Deadline benefit
- Default Mode Network (default attention)
- Distractibility is a state of training.
- Distractibility is not a permanent trait.
- Distraction
- Dread
- Edited Table
- Flexibility
- Flow
- Generosity
- Growth mindset vs Fixed mindset
- Humility
- Ideals
- Intensity
- Internalized challenges produce the energy we call motivation.
- Kevin's reading list
- Magnanimity
- Main Page
- Medals analogy
- Meta-Awareness
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness activates your parasympathetic nervous system.
- Modes of Appraisal
- Order
- Patience is the breaker of every vicious cycle.
- Physical Exercise
- Predictive attention, also called default attention, uses the default mode network.
- Reframing
- Reframing flips you from low to high performance.
- Resilience
- Resilience, Anti-Fragility, Grit
- Salience
- Self-concepts
- Self-Mastery
- Service
- Sharif's guide to editing
- Sincerity
- Sleep
- Strategies
- Sympathetics / Parasympathetics
- The amygdala detects threat labels.
- The appraisal you make of your adrenaline determines its function, for high performance or fight-or-flight response.
- The Golden Day
- The Golden Hour
- The nucleus accumbens detects salience.
- The Yerkes-Dodson curve shows the relationship between abilities and arousal.
- Threat Mode
- Top-Down Neuroscience
- Unwillingness
- Vital Engagement
- When working you are using two systems of attention: task attention vs. predictive attention.
- Work
- Workspace
- Worry and Rumination
- You only grow when you challenge yourself according to ideals. Then challenge = growth.
