The series, The Wisdom In This, are actionable insights from key topics, articles, authors, and interviews to help you quickly and easily apply wisdom in all things. These are emailed to you when you sign up for the Wisdom In All Things newsletter.
How Can I Kill My Selfishness?
“So, I would simply add this to your strategy against selfishness. Whenever you pursue something for yourself, which you will, you must — you eat, you sleep, you get exercise — ask this: “Do I have an effective desire in my heart that others would share with me in this temporal or eternal good and happiness?”” – John Piper
What Deion Sanders Learned from His First Losing Season as a College Coach
“We just simply, truly, don’t know how to win yet” – Deion Sanders
The answer? Preach belief. “We’re gonna go make it happen. And everybody around this inner circle is gonna believe. If you don’t believe, you’re gonna get up out of here, because we have the faith that can move mountains… that’s just the way we function. That’s the way we move. That’s the way we think. And we don’t fluctuate with that thought. We don’t procrastinate with that thought. We go get it.”
3 New Ways to Develop Laser-Like Focus
“To boost focus in the face of distractions, you need a new approach to success… [using] the “Goldilocks Zone” approach: You’re not overstimulated or understimulated, your focus is just right.” – Ben Angel
First, train your brain: visualize the activity before you do it. Second, the right diet is required to produce the energy you need (increase dopamine). Third, maintain a framework that allows you to maintain optimal performance: identify what is keeping you from doing your best and actively resolve it.