34 tips from Mindlift. Pick at least one.

I had the pleasure of meeting Kasper van der Meulen. He is the author of “MindLift: Mental Fitness for the Modern Mind”. A book about mindset, motivation, focus, personal growth hacks, food, breathing and physical fitness.

Here is what I picked up (and it is random):

1. Your body remembers. Painful experiences influence our well-being, behaviour and even the chemical composition of our blood for years to come. You need to overwrite that memory, and the book gives the tools to do that.

2. Your brain is amazing. No entertainment centre even comes close to the intense, three-dimensional, multisensory experience that our brain offers us every second of the day.

3. As long as your frontal lobe, the conscious decision-maker can remember what you had determined to be important. And can filter all other, less important impulses, you can consciously control and inhibit your reaction to those distractions, and thus stay focused. You can switch on the internal spam filter.

4. Attention is one of our most valuable assets in life. If you can decide what you want to pay attention to, you can direct your own behaviour. Manage your attention, not your time.

5. The mind is one of the most powerful tools we have at our disposal. But it is still a tool. You are not…