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The Secret to Growth, Small Acts for Big Impact, Mastery vs. Passion
The Secret to Growth,
Small Acts for Big Impact,
Mastery vs. Passion
Welcome to The Smarter Brain, a curation of thought-provoking ideas and actionable reads to help you build better habits and become more productive.
Happy reading - See you on Sunday!
Cheers,
The Smarter Brain Team
Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins
3 Ideas For Better Habits
1
Don’t Quit, Growth Takes Time
Former columnist at the Wall Street Journal Morgan Housel on the time horizons of growth and failure.
"Growth is driven by compounding, which always takes time. Destruction is driven by single points of failure, which can happen in seconds, and loss of confidence, which can happen in an instant."
Source: The Psychology of Money
2
The Ripple Effect of Your Actions
Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku on the significant impact of each interaction you have with others.
"Your efforts today will affect people you will never know. It is your choice whether that effect is positive or negative. You can choose every day, every minute, to act in a way that may uplift a stranger, or else drag them down. The choice is easy. And it is yours to make."
Source: The Happiest Man on Earth
3
Competence Does Not Equate to Passion
Author and screenwriter Gabrielle Zevin on the difference between being good at what we do versus loving what we do.
“But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Bite-sized ideas for better habits.
The Smarter Brain is a newsletter that helps you cut through the noise on the web and save valuable time, so you can can focus on getting things done. Delivered twice a week, you’ll get bite-sized ideas and recommended tools to build better habits, improve your productivity and get smarter in less than 3 minutes.
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