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Snowy Track Theory - ✔✔Our neural connections are like tracks in the snow; the more we take a
certain path, the more easy and natural it is to take in the future
Temporal Gap in Brain development - ✔✔
The Switch Cost Effect - ✔✔The cost when you mentally transition from one topic to another
- It takes about 30 minutes to fully focus on a task
- Downsides of "multi-tasking": More cognitive errors, decreased memory retention, decreased levels
of creativity
- Focusing has become more difficult with all of our modern distractions like cell phones
The Tetris Effect - ✔✔After being engaged in a particular cognitive task for a long period of time,
people begin to experience related cognitions when not engaged in the task
Growth mindset - ✔✔Intelligence is a malleable quality that can be developed and cultivated
through effort.
- Embraces challenges
- Embraces, learns from criticism
- Sees effort as a path to mastery
- Reaches ⬆levels of achievement, freewill, happiness
- Ex. Parenting feedback: "I'm proud of all your hard work"
Fixed Mindset - ✔✔Intelligence is a fixed trait that cannot be developed
- Avoid challenges
- Ignores/threatened by criticism
,- Sees effort as fruitless
- Is threatened by the success of others
- Plateaus early in life
- Parenting feedback Ex. "You are so good at . . ."
Willpower - ✔✔Your ability to align your actions with long-term goals rather than short term pleasure
- Basically to overcome the desire for hedonism
The Marshmallow Study - ✔✔This was a study in which kids were presented with a marshmallow on
the table and told if you resist the urge to eat it (a test of willpower, self-regulation), I will give you a
second one
- It was found later that the kids who resisted the marshmallow showed ⬆SAT score, ⬆GPA, ⬆Self-esteem, ⬆Resilience, ⬆salaries, and better more healthy relationships
The Radish study - ✔✔Participants were tempted with the smell of chocolate chip cookies. Half
were given cookies and the other half were given radishes. When asked to solve a puzzle, those who
were given cookies worked longer and harder to solve it. Radish people gave up more frequently.
- This provides evidence that willpower can be depleted.
How to Strengthen Willpower - ✔✔- It's like a muscle
- The more that you exercise the more fatigued it becomes.
- You can conserve it like energy and rest it for replenishment.
- The more you exercise willpower, the stronger it gets.
Habit - ✔✔Acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly involuntary
Procrastination - ✔✔Putting off a relevant activity for an unnecessary one
Types of Procrastination - ✔✔- Mild-Impact
- Behavioral
, - Fallback
- Deadline
- Promissory-Note
Mild-impact procrastination - ✔✔Non-urgent and non-important things in life get put off.
- Solution: Creating a checklist of 5 - 7 items
Behavioral Procrastination - ✔✔You have a wish and a plan of action, but you can't find the will
to actually get started
- Solution: Create timelines, not just deadlines
Fallback Procrastination - ✔✔You habitually fall behind your work/deadlines, panic, and then go into
a flurry of work to catch up.
- Solution: Don't rely solely on your last minute effort. Think about developing healthier and more
efficient habits/routines
Deadline Procrastination - ✔✔You don't handle the big assignment and instead focus on the
"little things."
- Solution: Ignore last minute tidying, give yourself extra time to leave the house, and make a routine
in which you only certain things at certain times of the day
Promissory-Note Procrastination - ✔✔When you tell yourself you're going to do something and
then don't
- Solution: Reflect on your promises. If one is worth making, write it down, hang it on the fridge, and
see how it goes (adjusting if needed)
Choice Paralysis - ✔✔Over-thinking a decision to the point that a choice never gets made
- A person faces choice paralysis when they are overwhelmed by the options available due to
feeling compelled to pick the right choice
Maximizing - ✔✔Seek and accept only the best
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