Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

Cortisol makes you old

If you have a memory that's more than 18 month old approximately and when you pull that memory up to mind, if you still have an emotional reaction, that means you have not fully articulated the memory. You have not analyzed it causally, you have not freed yourself from its grasp and you are carrying it like a weight and your brain responds to that. The more baggage you are carrying like that the more stress hormone cortisol your brain produces and cortisol makes you old

What affects us most?

To the pessimist the glass is always half empty. To the optimist the glass is half full. Why would the same measure affect people two different ways. Answer - it all depends on how you look at it. Our lives are mostly affected by the way we think things are, not the way they are. The way we think they are affects us most

In order for society to progress you have to allow the individual to compete in a relatively untrammeled space so that they can innovate

The response is much more negative from the fans if you lose a fight and complain about it. It's ruthless because they understand that you've made a huge character error