"Just as it is possible to acquire a new sexual taste from pornographic exploitation, it is possible to acquire a taste for foods that you consume frequently."
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.
"Frequent screen time makes activities that demand sustained attention, such as reading books, more challenging. They are boring because the pace is too slow and they lack sensory stimulation compared to the rapidity and multi-sensory experience that TV offers."
"By purposely dropping your core body temperature, you can trick your body into sleep mode."
"The more you learn, the more your brain rewires and changes its structure to improve its capacity to learn even more by increasing its perceiving and thinking speed."
"The higher you climb the social status ladder, the more vulnerable you are to willpower failure because the number of possible temptations increases, the demanding tasks required of you increase, and the need to handle your ego increases."
"Crash diets never work for long because you dry up your willpower faster than it can be replenished. You are resisting too many temptations at a time. When you lose the battle, you give in and engorge more food, gaining more weight than when you started."
"When your conscious mind desires something badly enough, your subconscious mind knows it and will muster your resources to see that wish fulfilled."
"Your mind does not automatically dig positivity out of a moderately unpleasant experience. That’s why some people are willing to stick around in a struggling relationship (intensely unpleasant) but unwilling to forgive their spouse who leaves dirty socks on the bedroom floor (moderately unpleasant)."