20/05/2021

Welcome back, it`s been a long time since I have done an Episode that's because I have been busy with end of year exams and essays. In today's episode, I want to talk about 2 things that I learnt.

1- If you start at 15 years old, reading 2 hours every day until 75, you will have read 4380 books and at the extreme end you would have read about 6000 books in your lifetime. In a library of 10 million books, that less is than 0.1% of the books that you are able to read in your lifetime. So what I have learnt is that it's not how many books but the right books. Choose wisely- which is not easy- based on your interest and what you are curious about.

2- Humans cannot comprehend negativity (Simon Sinek), let me give you an example. If I told you not to think about an apple, don't think about an apple, you already did! So when you want to do something that you want to focus on, tell yourself what you can do, ill give you a personal example, I was doing a video for a community project, I messed up a few lines and people were getting frustrated, then I began to think about not messing up. This is where I started to mess up the lines even more, by thinking this way I increased the chances of me messing up. In this case, I need to think about what I can do and that is to break down the lines to make it short or do some tongue twisters and know I'm going to get it right. Skiers do this as well, they focus on the path they are going through rather than thinking about avoiding the trees(as obstacles) this allows them to perform much better and be able to navigate through the path easily. A lot of Athletes use this method to reinforce their abilities and allows them to perform at the biggest or at the most important moments.

#Humans #negativity #books #Simonsinek

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