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Brain Food Archive

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2023

552: Writing to Think

551: Alignment

550: Extraordinary Decades

549: Superlinear

548: Tiny Delights

547: Three Filters

546: Adult Life

545: Taking Risks

544: The Physics of Relationships

543: Busy vs. Productive

542: Normal

541: Measuring and Evaluating

540: Surface Area of Luck

539: Completely Obsessed

538: Sources of Advantage

537: Proven Benefits

536: Something Unique

535: High Expectations

534: Risk Reduction

533: A Little Longer

532: Active Patience

531: Create and Curate

530: Bad Before Good

529: No Matter Where

528: Avoiding Problems

527: The Art of Learning

526: Personal Responsibility

525: Perfectionism

524: Overcoming Impossible

523: Grace

522: Tilting the Odds

521: Reality is Undefeated

520: Outsmart to Outwork

519: Next Move Mindset

518: Clear Thinking

517: Doing Your Best

516: Things You Control

515: The Need to Write

514: Human Constructs

513: Foreseeing Danger

512: Attention to Detail

511: Time Not Money

510: Growing Old

509: Listening to Win

508: Leverage Time

507: Every Day

506: Momentum creates Motivation

505: Small Habits

2022

504: Unexpected Kindness

503: Setting and Achieving Goals

502: The Focus to Say No

501: Figuring it Out

500: Our 500th edition of Brain Food

499: Subtraction

498: The Stonecutter’s Credo

497: Seizing The Moment

496: The Mountain

495: Simple Acts

494: All in. All the time.

493: Next Step Focus

492: What Makes Us Happy

491: Unthinkingable

490: Avoiding Bad Behavior

489: Sophisticated Simplicity

488: Nowhere to Hide

487: Desire into Default

486: Towards or Away

485: Appearing Foolish

484: Signal in the Noise

483: Consistency

482: Ignoring the Irrelevant

481: Good Advice

480: Personal Philosophy

479: Time Horizon

478: No Points for Difficult

477: Hierarchy

476: Tomorrow Self

475: The Asymmetry of Focus

474: Negotiating with Yourself

473: Boredom & Impatience

472: Heroic Math

471: Longevity

470: The Second Mindset

469: The 24 Hour Rule

468: Today, Not Tomorrow

467: The Weight of Short Term Actions

466: Simple Ideas. Parabolic Results.

465: Starting Position

464: Useful not Accurate

463: Tentative Uncertainty

462: Positive Asymmetry

461: Active Patience

460: Designing Defaults

459: Uncommon Consistency

458: Small Steps

457: Passive Stability

456: Playing on Hard Mode

455: The Passions

454: Quitting to Win

453: Less But Better

2021

  • 452: Run Your Own Race
  • 451 The Path of Least Resistance
  • 450 Patterns of Behavior
  • 449: Does it work?
  • 448: Faulty Narratives
  • 447: Expectations
  • 446: Avoiding Stupidity
  • 445: A Method of Learning
  • 444: Avoiding Problems
  • 443: Doing the Work
  • 442: What They Never Taught You about Surprise
  • 441: What You Put In
  • 440: Your Scoreboard
  • 439: Cultivating People
  • 438: First Step Courage

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