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The Smarter Brain

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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A Lesson for the 21st Century

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 April! Have a great start to your week - See you on Wednesday! Cheers, The Smarter Brain Team Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits Embracing Life's Fullness Addiction specialist, Anna Lembke, on confronting life. "I urge you to find a way to immerse yourself fully in the life that you’ve been given. To stop running from...

29 days ago • 2 min read

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 Wednesday! Cheers, The Smarter Brain Team Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits Embracing the Lessons of Failure Productivity strategist, Charlie Gilkey, on the value of setbacks. "The gift of failure is that it reveals what matters to you, shows you when you’re out of alignment, and reveals a growth...

1 day ago • 1 min read

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 Action vs. Inaction: A Psychological Dilemma American journalist and author, Joseph T. Hallinan, on the bias towards action. "As a general principle, people feel more responsible for their actions than they do for their...

5 days ago • 1 min read

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 The Double-Edged Sword of Intelligence Neuroplasticity pioneer, Norman Doidge, on the nature of worry. "All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same...

12 days ago • 2 min read

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 Wednesday! Cheers, The Smarter Brain Team Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits The Parallels of Pain and Connection Neuroscientist, Matthew D. Lieberman, on social bonds. "We intuitively believe social and physical pain are radically different kinds of experiences, yet the way our brains treat them...

15 days ago • 2 min read

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 The Weight of Unmade Decisions Comedian and author, Trevor Noah, on the impact of regret. "I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do,...

19 days ago • 2 min read

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 Wednesday! Cheers, The Smarter Brain Team Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits The Misconception of Certainty Political scientist, Brian Klaas, on the dangers of false confidence. "Rather than rewarding intellectual humility, we too often mistakenly conflate (false) certainty with confidence and...

22 days ago • 2 min read

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 Crafting Your Own Identity Inspirational leader, Michelle Obama, on self-definition. "If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others." Source: BecomingScience-Backed...

26 days ago • 1 min read

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 The Transformative Power of Awe Founder of Greater Good Science Center, Dacher Keltner, on cultivating wonder. "Wonder, the mental state of openness, questioning, curiosity, and embracing mystery, arises out of experiences of...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

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 Easter for those celebrating 🎉 See you on Wednesday to kickstart the first issue of April! Cheers, The Smarter Brain Team Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits Why-Power Over Willpower Keynote speaker, Darren Hardy, on the essence of motivation. "Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read
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