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Our parents constantly told us, "You can do anything you set your mind to do." I assumed this was what all parents told their children; it was only as an adult that it dawned on me that many people never got such a message from their parents.

This is not to suggest that these empowering words had an instant effect on me. I went from being a straight-A student to one who hated high school, stopped studying, and drifted into college. It was only a few years later that I finally focused my energies, made it into Wharton's graduate division, and got my career on track.

Years passed. I learned to aim higher, to be tenacious, to expect more of myself. But nothing came easy. I was founder and CEO of a VC-backed company... that couldn't raise its second round of funding. What hurt the most was when I finally had to admit defeat; I set my mind to succeed, but we failed anyway.

1.) It's an aspirational phrase, designed to make you realize that the obstacles within you are often more important than any external obstacles. If you can summon enough resolve to overcome your inner obstacles, you can accomplish truly amazing things.

For this reason, it makes sense to "set your mind" towards goals that you can control. "Running a mile in six minutes" is a better goal than "being the fastest runner in my class," because you can't control what others in your class do.

The main lesson I've learned is the value of believing in yourself and in the power of your own resolve. I've been shocked how many people were not brought up to believe in themselves. This doesn't mean they are not capable of great things; it simply means they don't yet understand how much they could achieve, if only they fully believe in themselves.

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The thing about a second brain is that it loses its efficacy if I have to stress about forgetting to put something there. As a writer, people have always gifted me notebooks. And as a Capricorn cusp, I love the fresh-start feeling of a new notebook to hold all my lists. But inevitably, these all fall into disuse. I have enough abandoned journals to prove it. So, I digitized my second brain for two reasons: To be able to edit it on the go and to make it fun by experimenting with Notion.

This is a much more benevolent cycle than the alternative. All you have to do is keep a notepad or your preferred app by your bedside (though do try to avoid blue light before bed!). An extra step could be identifying a few priorities on your brain dump list so you can enter the new day with action.

Robert SAPOLSKY: The list is endless. I used to be a very serious pianist, and I was one of the snot-nosed classical ones who was appalled by nightmares of Ethel Merman and trombones blasting in the background and who knows what else. And then the wonderful person I married turned out to be a musical-theater fanatic. And in fact, my wife is a musical-theater director.

SAPOLSKY: Oh, I was one of those terribly nerdy, scholarly, passive- aggressive kids where I never said a word about it to my highly religious and demanding father. And he went to his grave having no idea.

In other words: democracy had essentially won. Not just the Cold War, but the future. And yet: a lot of the recent political momentum is going in the other direction: toward populism and authoritarianism, with a backlash against globalism.

In other words:barely a third of them were able to correctly say whether they fell in the top 20 percent of all managers, or the bottom 20 percent, or another 20-percent block somewhere in the middle.

SHVETS: People who did worse in the previous competition tended to remember slightly better outcomes. People seem to be exaggerating their own past performance in their head when this performance is bad. So what we conclude from this is that people use memory selectively. They remember good outcomes and they tend to forget bad ones.

Think of something you have a really strong opinion about. Maybe the best ways to address climate change. The perils of income inequality. How to balance privacy and security. Now think about why you have such a strong opinion. How well do you think could you explain your position?

JACKSON: One thing I used to think was that people, if you gave them the same kinds of information, they would make decisions the same way. They might have different experiences in their past, different influences. But somehow the fundamental ways in which they think about things and process things is the same.

JACKSON: We asked people their opinions before they went in to the study, and you could see that people looking at exactly the same article would interpret it very differently depending on what their initial position was.

JACKSON: There was a group of about a quarter to a third of the subjects who actually became more polarized, who interpreted the information heavily in the direction of their priors, and actually ended up with more extreme positions after the experiment than before.

SAPOLSKY: Well, the really irritating thing I would say is that the two are one and the same. We are nothing more or less than the sum of our biology. Every time you learn something, from something profound to something idiotic, something changes in your brain. Every time you have a sensory experience, your brain is constantly rewiring in major ways.

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Recently, I spent an afternoon with my youth group distributing food to people in our community. Somehow, the topic of apologetics came up in a conversation between me and one of the adults. After they told me they have no interest in learning why they believe in Christianity, I asked them one of my favorite questions.

In short, loving God with the mind is to allow the mind and heart to work together in a way that produces a deeper knowledge of God. This knowledge in turn leads to a more intimate relationship with God where God is loved both intellectually and emotionally.

The same is true for God. We strive to know about God (the mind) so we can more accurately know him (the heart). Loving God with the mind creates the ability to love him with the heart. When we fail to do this, our ability to intimately love him with the heart is minimized and hindered.

Ask him to guide you as you seek to love him with your mind as well as your heart and soul. Doing this will reveal your need and spiritual hunger to truly love God with all that you are. If you ask him and you truly seek to love him with the mind, he will answer.

is a student pursuing his BA in Biblical Studies and Theology, and he has a deep passion for apologetics. Levi is the host of the Defending Christianity Podcast, where he interviews top-notch scholars and examines the truthfulness of Christianity. He is also the founder of the Defending Christianity Blog. Levi hopes to go into apologetics long term with hopes to show the world why Christianity is true and good. You can check out his Instagram here.

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Ethan Kross, an experimental psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan, wants to teach us how to control the voices in our heads. Not the voices of mental illness, mind you, just the little voice we all have, cheerily (or naggingly) narrating our lives as we go about our days.

It can make it really hard for us to think and perform well. And one principal reason for that is you only have so much ability to focus at any given moment in time. And so if all your focus is devoted toward your chatter, good luck getting anything done.

We see heightened levels of activation in a network of brain regions that are active when we think about ourselves as compared to other people. So this self-referential processing network, which tends to be more active among people who are clinically anxious and depressed, is also active when you look at people experiencing chatter.

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