Quotes from Robert Maurer

Optimista v??í ve sv?j potenciál neustále se zlepšovat.

Budete-li opakovat otázku po n?kolik dní nebo týdn?, hypocampus nebude mít jinou možnost, než ji vy?ídit. Bude to jeho vlastním zp?sobem, podle jeho ?asového harmonogramu, ale váš mozek za?ne dodávat pot?ebné odpov?di.

But one of the most solid predictors of success in life is whether a person turns to another human for support in times of trouble or fear.

large goal âžž fear âžž access to cortex restricted âžž failure small goal âžž fear bypassed âžž cortex engaged âžž success

People who struggle with kaizen do so not because the steps are hard but because they are easy. They can't overcome the cultural training that says change must always be instantaneous, it must always require steely self-discipline, and it must never be pleasurable.

As we've learned, radical programs for change can arouse your hidden and not-so-hidden doubts and fears (What if I fail? What if I achieve my goal—and I'm still unhappy?), setting off the amygdala's alarms. Your brain responds to this fear with skyrocketing levels of stress hormones and lower levels of creativity instead of the positive, consistent energy you need to reach your long-term goals.

You may have experienced this phenomenon in the form of test anxiety. The more important you believe the test to be, the more you have riding on the outcome, the more fear you feel. And then you find it difficult to concentrate.

Confront the difficult when it is still easy; Accomplish the great task by a series of small acts." -TAO TE CHING

Your brain loves questions and won't reject them . . . unless the question is so big it triggers fear.

These strategies include: asking small questions to dispel fear and inspire creativity thinking small thoughts to develop new skills and habits—without moving a muscle taking small actions that guarantee success solving small problems, even when you're faced with an overwhelming crisis bestowing small rewards to yourself or others to produce the best results recognizing the small but crucial moments that everyone else ignores

kaizen: using small steps to accomplish large goals. Kaizen

small rewards encourage internal motivation because they are really a form of recognition rather than material gain, signaling that the corporation or boss appreciates the employee's internal desire to improve and contribute.

While the modern medical name for the feeling produced by a new challenge or large goal is stress, for countless generations it went by the old, familiar name of fear.

What is a tiny step I could make to achieve my goal?

The steps were so small I couldn't fail!

consider how the world might be different if more of us conducted our social, business, and romantic lives with the belief that small steps matter, that even the shortest contact with another person is inherently important.

Kaizen offers the possibility that through small acts of kindness, and even small moments of compassion and curiosity, we can change ourselves—and, eventually, humanity.

When life gets scary and difficult, we tend to look for solutions in places where it is easy or at least familiar to do so, and not in the dark, uncomfortable places where real solutions might lie.

Today, we actually have three separate brains that came along at intervals of about one or two hundred million years. One of our challenges as humans is to develop harmony among these different brains so as to avoid physical and emotional illness.