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CONSEJO RÁPIDO Busca un compañero de aprendizaje con quien leer este libro y responsabilizaos mutuamente. Nombra a esa persona (o personas) aquí: _______________________________________________________

Now consider a path through that location.

positive people from the general population were 13 percent less likely than their negative counterparts to have a heart attack or other coronary event.

Knowledge is power: You hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It's only potential power. It only becomes power when we apply it and use it.

Somebody who reads a book and doesn't apply it, they're at no advantage over someone who's illiterate.

None of it works unless YOU work. We have to do our part. If knowing is half the battle, action is the second half of the battle.

LIE NO. 7: GENIUS IS BORN

The human brain does not learn as much by consumption as it does by creation.

Reasons that are tied to your purpose, identity, and values will sufficiently motivate you to act, even in the face of all of the daily obstacles that life puts in your way.

First you create your habits, and then they create you

you make mistakes; mistakes don’t make you.

The treasure you seek is in the work you're avoiding

a beginner’s mind.” Remember that your mind is like a parachute — it only works when it’s open.

There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that if we never let our mind wander or be bored for a moment, we pay a price — poor memory, mental fog, and fatigue.

Perfectionism reduces creativity and innovation,” writes Hara Estroff Marano, editor at large and the former editor in chief of Psychology Today. “It is a steady source of negative emotions; rather than reaching toward something positive, those in its grip are focused on the very thing they most want to avoid — negative evaluation. Perfectionism, then, is an endless report card; it keeps people completely self-absorbed, engaged in perpetual self-evaluation — reaping relentless frustration and doomed to anxiety and depression.

Give a person an idea, and you enrich their day. Teach a person how to learn, and they can enrich their entire life.

I suggest you use the Pomodoro technique, a productivity method developed by Francesco Cirillo based on the idea that the optimal time for a task is 25 minutes, followed by a 5-minute break.2 Each 25-minute chunk is called a “Pomodoro.” As you read this book, I suggest that you read for one Pomodoro and then take a 5-minute brain break before continuing.