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They liked you more than you think
After a first conversation, we keep deciding we were liked less than we were. It’s an illusion with a clear mechanism, and you can get around it.
You can’t reset your dopamine
A break from your phone won’t reboot your brain. It can freshen pleasure and weaken the habit if you plan the return in advance.
Why your aim drifts without feedback
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice with feedback does — if it’s about the work, not about you.
Without you, your brain loses track of time
Your inner clock runs 11 minutes long. Light is how you reset it — and your dose is not my dose.
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How we check sources →- Strong evidence
- Several good studies agree, and the effect held up when others checked.
- Mixed evidence
- Good studies disagree, or the effect is small or holds only for some people.
- Early evidence
- A first study or two. Worth knowing; not yet worth betting on.
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