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Over and over pays off "A Take-Home Message for Meditators Learn to be much more patient with yourself. Every ... amzn.com/k/oUJdo2JESsyd…

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Stay tuned. Be prepared for surprises. "Do some involuntary forms of ‘‘no-thought’’ attention normally exist that... goodreads.com/quotes/4365272…

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Meditation trains better use of your mind "Research worldwide is starting to clarify both how greater degrees of ... goodreads.com/quotes/4364991…

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Move back to the focus point over and over. "Perceiving Clearly The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wander... goodreads.com/quotes/4364894…

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Human attention is quite a tool "Attention is malleable. We can intensify it, shift it either voluntarily or inv... goodreads.com/quotes/4352605…

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What a little meditation does? "Ruth Baer based her recent analysis of mindfulness on descriptions of how a varie... goodreads.com/quotes/4309318…

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Do the math "She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of t... amzn.com/k/GzwlUG8cQOKp…

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We will not avoid all negatives in this life. "There was nothing pleasant about his First Noble Truth, spoken ... amzn.com/k/fC07O2t1RPKi…

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Meditation makes him more comfortable with himself "Yet the more experience I had with meditation, the more c... amzn.com/k/qHokrAofTe6G…

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Taking myself lightly "A new kind of space opened up in which everything flowed in its own way and I settled ... amzn.com/k/om3hCeVuRcai…

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I might be boring but that's a secret. "I felt boring, although I framed it in terms of feeling empty. To admi... amzn.com/k/z7k7YKWLTneE…

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I wanted something but I didn't know what. "I had figured out how to be reasonably comfortable in an academic ... amzn.com/k/AmraTeBWRg24…

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The big hits, the real blows are facts, not failures, not mistakes, and they come to us all. "This attitude to... amzn.com/k/QquYOqhuRtec…

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@DianneDHarman Just looked your books up. I liked Nice and the novels of Peter Mayle. Naturally, had to buy" Coyote in Provence"

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@wisconsinlife Best cookies on the planet! Nuts 2 Chew in Earthcrust Bakery inside Stevens Point Food Coop. $2.25 each but worth $5.00

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We use debate tools everywhere. In science, too. "If you visit a courtroom you will observe that lawyers apply... amzn.com/k/5hreKQIVThCm…

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You need to be careful about listening to your dog too much. "“Fine, but we’ll do it before lunch. And speakin... amzn.com/k/YO_a2bAhSK6R…

From Thinking:Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Bill: Frown! You will think more logically.

Half the students were told to puff out their cheeks during the task, while the others were told to frown. Frowning, as we have seen, generally increases the vigilance of System 2 and reduces both overconfidence and the reliance on intuition. The students who puffed out their cheeks (an emotionally neutral expression) replicated the original results: