Hey guys!
Welcome back for this week’s installment of 5 Bullet Friday! Here are the 5 points I’m reading about, listening to, learning, and laughing about this week:
1. Why Organic Food is Better
I never really understood all the hype around organic food. Food is food I thought. An organic carrot has the same nutrients as a non-organic carrot. Listening to a health podcast I found out the difference isn’t the makeup of the carrot, but what your body has to do to process the non-organic carrot. The chemicals added to inorganic foods take energy and effort from your body to process. You can eat healthy foods and instead of feeling energized feel a little drained even while you’re getting good nutrients because of the other stuff you’re getting alongside them. Go organic and leave the extra “stuff” out of your body.
2. The Emotional Cookie Jar
The emotional cookie jar is a term coined by David Goggins. Goggins talks about when he’s pushing himself physically he came up with this technique to find another gear. The emotional cookie jar is an overwhelmingly positive memory that you have. It could be anything, just something that automatically puts a smile on your face. When you’re down and out, beaten up and exhausted, you use this memory to change your physiology. Your sympathetic nervous system can’t tell the difference between reality and your imagination. If you hone in on this euphoric memory you can actually slow your heart rate, decrease pain, and increase your energy levels. The next time you’re pushing yourself to find another gear, use the emotional cookie jar.
3. Take Notes by Hand
I’m a terribly slow writer. Breaking my thumb in high school made sure of that. In college I would take notes on my laptop to make sure I didn’t miss any important information and could pretty much get the lectures down verbatim. When I’d go back and read my notes to study a lot of the time I’d read some pieces like it was my first time hearing the information, I didn’t remember it. I was more focused on typing than comprehending the material in the lecture. Harvard did a study and found that taking notes by hand actually helps you commit the material to memory. Because most people can’t write fast enough to take notes verbatim you’re forced to process the information and take notes in shorthand. The process of taking the information in, processing it, and writing a shorthand version of it, actually helped participants recall the information later. If you want to just have the information, you can type notes. If you want to learn the information, take notes by hand.
4. Way of The Wolf
Recommended by one of our newly added readers Mark Carter (Say hi Mark!) I started this book a few days ago and haven’t been able to put it down. It’s Jordan Belfort The Wolf of Wall Street’s newest book, and it’s awesome.
