⏱ The Best Minute: Action > intelligence, facing hard things, and enjoyable habits
💡 1 IDEA FROM ME
Action is more important than intelligence.
You may have a great idea, but talk yourself out of pursuing it. You might not be the most gifted, but your skill increases with more reps.
Success happens to those who show up, not those who think about it.
You can’t win if you don’t play.
💬 2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I. Jonathan Haidt on the necessity of facing hard things:
“Teaching kids that failures, insults, and painful experiences will do lasting damage is harmful in and of itself. Human beings need physical and mental challenges and stressors or we deteriorate.”
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II. Sarah Perry on the need to build habits you enjoy (using exercise, but any habit will do):
“Unfortunately, most on-ramps to exercise are at an intensity too high for previously-sedentary people to find them pleasurable. If people go to a fitness class, or focus on running a particular distance at a particular speed, they’ll likely miss the pleasure zone entirely.
Refocusing on exercising only for one’s own individual pleasure, as slowly as one prefers, and only at intensities that are pleasurable, is more likely to motivate repeat and habitual exercising. At that point, the enjoyment of exercise pleasure can build on itself, motivating longer and longer intervals of experiencing the pleasure.”
🎙 THIS WEEK ON THE CHURCH LEADERSHIP PODCAST
Vincent Garvey talks about how to raise money, how to grow your church staff through support raising, generating other income streams for your church, and more.
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🤯 1 INTERESTING FACT
The idea that tongues have different zones for detecting different tastes is a myth. You can sense each of the five tastes (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and “umami”) on all areas of your tongue. However, the back of the tongue is more sensitive to bitter tastes.
And did you know that you have taste buds in other places besides on your tongue? Some are found on your epiglottis, in the back of your throat, in your nose and sinuses, and even down into the upper portion of your esophagus.
Source: Ogden Ortho
🤔 1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
If you could stop one unwanted habit in your life, what would it be? How would it help you if you told someone you trust your answer?
P.S. It’s all specific.
