MNTS #30
[Week 49/ Year 2023] Munger, Attention, Nicotine, Future Self, Jenny Lewis, Thule
Mainly, Notes To Self - my weekly attempt to compress everything noteworthy I read, watched, listened to, and discovered during the past week.
Reading
Charlie Munger by Shane Parish
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. Nevertheless, you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”
— Charlie Munger
Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back. by Burnett, Loh, and Schmidt
We must flip the script on teachers’ perennial complaint. Instead of fretting that students’ flagging attention doesn’t serve education, we must make attention itself the thing being taught.
This new paradigm of attention education demands that we dig in on the magic of this instrument. And that we build coalitions of everyone who uses it. That means teachers and students, but also welders, surfers — anyone who does anything with care and immersive commitment, anyone who treasures true attention.
How Nicotine Influences Hippocampal Dependent Cognition by Neuroscience News
These results suggested the acute exposure to nicotine was beneficial to protect the neurons, especially cognitive enhancement, and the elevated picolinic acid continually protected neuronal cognitive function after nicotine withdrawal.
You Need to Practice Being Your Future Self by Peter Bregman
Here’s the key: You need to spend time on the future even when there are more important things to do in the present and even when there is no immediately apparent return to your efforts. In other words — and this is the hard part — if you want to be productive, you need to spend time doing things that feel ridiculously unproductive.
Listening
My wife and I caught a Jenny Lewis show on Wednesday night. We’ve seen her show together every time she has toured since 2008. So this was a fun trip down memory lane fifteen years in the making. Epic show. Bless!
Random
The Thule double stroller is an absolute weapon on the trails. Fun for the whole fam.
Until next week.
Stay spirited, stay resilient.
Andrew