"High confidence is thought to equate to high competence, even though it can cause ineffective decision-making."
My quotes from the entire Peak Productivity book series.
Explore insightful quotes curated from the entire Peak Productivity book series. Delve into a collection of wisdom and practical advice distilled from these works, offering guidance on maximizing efficiency, optimizing workflows, and achieving peak performance.
"We humans grow complacent easily when we have a quick fix at our fingertips, relying so much on our talent that we feel invincible."
"When you don’t allow your body sufficient time to recover by exposing it to one stress after another without respite, you develop chronic stress—that is, your body continues to perceive your situation as dangerous even after the threat is over."
"Your brain reshapes every day through your culture, your environment, and your habits."
"The attention-grabbing advertisements, dopamine-driven entertaining videos, cheap fast food, unlimited TV shows, etc., have given a lot of challenges to our prefrontal cortex to survive."
"Disorders of the sleeping rhythm often start with blue light disturbance."
"Your body operates on a 24-hour circadian clock. It will not allow you to enter a rejuvenating sleep when the time is not right according to your body's clock."
"Our brain has a mechanism to put a halt on willpower use to prevent it from hitting rock bottom. This is beneficial from an evolution point of view: You need to reserve some amount of willpower in the system for an emergency."