3 Things I Learned Last Week #110 – Your Brain Is Lying to You (And Other Fun Facts)

Welcome to the 110th edition of “3 Things I Learned Last Week”! 🌟

We’re about to embark on a rollercoaster ride through the theme park of my brain. Each week, I stuff my noggin with more trivia than a “Jeopardy!” contestant on steroids, and then I regurgitate the best bits for your reading pleasure. It’s like intellectual bulimia, but way more fun and less likely to rot your teeth.

If you’re new here, welcome to the circus! If you’re a regular, congrats on making it this far without blocking me. Either way, feel free to spread this newsletter around like a juicy rumor at a high school reunion.

This week’s menu of mind-bending morsels:

1. The Holy Trinity of Happiness (No, not wine, chocolate, and Netflix)
2. Time Management for the Perpetually Tardy
3. Your Brain: The Sneaky Saboteur You Never Knew You Had

Let’s dive in faster than your aunt Karen into the gossip pool!

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🤔 3 Questions that Determine 99% of Your Happiness (The Other 1% is Puppies)

Ever feel like happiness is more elusive than a soap bar in a prison shower? Well, Mark Manson’s here to simplify it down to three questions. It’s like a BuzzFeed quiz, but actually useful!

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation: Stop chasing Instagram likes and start chasing your bliss. Your cat doesn’t care about your follower count anyway.
• Healing Past Pain: Time to Marie Kondo those emotional closets! If it doesn’t spark joy (or at least a valuable life lesson), thank it and let it go.
• Meaningful Relationships: Focus on improving yourself instead of fixing others. You’re not Bob the Builder, for crying out loud!

🎥 Watch Mark Manson drop truth bombs here!

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⏳ Watch This If You Never Have Enough Time (Looking at you, chronic procrastinators)

Feeling like Time is that ex who ghosted you? This video, inspired by Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations on Mortality, might just help you swipe right on productivity.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Acceptance over Solution: You can’t do everything. Neither could Leonardo da Vinci, and he had way less Netflix to binge.
• The Weight of Choice: With great power comes great responsibility. Thanks for the life lesson, Spider-Man!
• Embracing Problems: Challenges are like speed bumps. They slow you down, but they also keep you from crashing into a tree.

🎥 Learn to tame Father Time here!

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🤯 Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day (No, it’s not during staff meetings)

Plot twist: Your brain is gaslighting you! This mind-bending exploration reveals how your gray matter is secretly editing reality like a Hollywood director on a tight deadline.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Saccades and Visual Processing: Your eyes are basically taking a series of rapid-fire selfies. #NoFilter
• The Delay of Perception: You’re living in the past. No, really. Your brain’s internet connection has lag.
• Predictive Brain: Your brain is like that friend who always thinks they know how the movie ends. Sometimes they’re right, sometimes they ruin the surprise.

🎥 Uncover your brain’s sneaky shenanigans here!

That’s all, folks! Hope these nuggets of knowledge are crispier than the fries at the bottom of the bag. Stay curious, keep exploring, and remember: if you’re not learning, you’re basically just waiting around to die. Cheerful, right?

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May your week be filled with more “Aha!” moments than “D’oh!” moments!

Yours in perpetual befuddlement,

~ Nathan

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