"you might think that such a small change wouldn't make much of a difference, but nothing could be further from the truth. when it comes to making lasting changes in our lives, it's the little things that count. and that's what micro habits are all about..."

"a while back, i realized i needed something to help reinforce my intentions when i didn’t seem to be following through on them. for example, i intended to work on a big project, but i found myself doing some little tasks, or taking a longer break than i really wanted or needed..."

"oh, to be a bored youth again, with a carefree afternoon stretching ahead like a long, satisfying yawn. it’s not that i want to regress, it’s just … where did all the time go?..."

"in this essay, i question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it..."

"in the process of reading the book and encountering some extraordinary claims about sleep, i decided to compare the facts it presented with the scientific literature. i found that the book consistently overstates the problem of lack of sleep, sometimes egregiously so. it misrepresents basic sleep research and contradicts its own sources..."

"each year, i have drawn one new learning from that particular season of life. each year, it has swelled into an existential challenge to prune the vastness, the lushness, the interleaved complexity of experience into a single blade of simple but not simplistic insight into the nature of life, glimpsed from the solitary pinhole of this one life..."

"scientists from osaka city university are reporting successful preclinical tests of a novel nasal spray designed to prevent the neurodegeneration associated with dementia. the spray combines two cheap, pre-existing drugs and was found to improve cognitive function in several different mouse models of dementia..."

"when it comes to the science of organizational behavior, i found that effort is not a given for success—nor does it even play a central role. instead, developing motivation should take the spotlight..."

"to live better means that you’ll live differently—somehow, you’ll make some kind of change. your life will be different tomorrow than it is today..."

"our world is changing faster than ever. a lot of today’s jobs were beyond the scope of imagination just 20 years ago. that introduces a certain dilemma. which skill should you focus on if you don’t know what’s in demand tomorrow? the answer: learn how to learn. being able to learn a new skill will be crucial to keep up with the change around us, and ultralearning offers a great method for this..."