Instant Gratification and the Death of Mastery: How to Refocus Your Life

Make time your secret weapon.

Our success and happiness are often eroded by the 7 habits of highly impatient people. We are losing the ability to focus and glorify instant success. Thus we lose the ability to stick with anything and create meaningful work.

This episode goes through the psychology and philosophy of taking a slower and deeper approach to life:

• Understand the causes behind our poor attention spans
• Create resilience in your work
• Grow lasting momentum instead of bursts of speed

From ancient stoic philosophers to the latest neuroscience. The signs are all put together in the episode that will help you focus your life and make time work towards your success.

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Episode: Instant Gratification and the Death of Mastery: How to Refocus Your Life

Chapters:

00:00 Slowing down as a key to success

01:45 The allure and pitfalls of instant gratification

03:56 Building momentum

06:40 Optionality diminishes focus and inertia

10:35 Michael Jordan vs. high school star

12:03 Modern dating and the problem with optionality

12:54 ADVERT

13:03 Social media fuels our addiction to speed

15:38 Marcus Aurelius on the power of slowing down

16:53 Evaluating daily choices that speed you up or slow you down

17:38 Slowing down for happiness and growth

20:04 Realizations of ADHD

20:45 Going "all in" builds momentum

21:26 Send off

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