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WAKT-TIE-TI-WDKMAT ~ We All Know That – Timing Is Everything –
Trouble Is – We Don’t Know Much About Timing
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OCADNRSOTCOAD-WA-S/F/S/MC/LC-ISPOTDTO-TDFAMETWR ~ Our Cognitive
Abilities Do Not Remain Static Over The Course Of A Day – We Are –
Smarter / Faster / Dimmer / Slower / More Creative / Less Creative –
In Some Parts Of The Day Than Others – These Daily Fluctuations Are
More Extreme Than We Realize
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WWWUOBTSR-T-GBO-ELAA-A-T-EOEF-OATC-OPOD ~ When We Wake Up Our Body
Temperature Slowly Rises – That – Gradually Boosts Our – Energy
Levels And Alertness – And That – Enhances Our Executive
Functioning – Our Ability To Concentrate – Our Powers Of
Deduction
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AAEL-PDTA-WTDCAC-FIOATRF-A-COI ~ Alertness And Energy Levels –
Plummet During The Afternoons – With That Drop Comes A
Corresponding – Fall In Our Ability To Remain Focused – And –
Constrain Our Inhibitions
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B-IPAD-TRLVAFI-ATLM-AFDCHUSCWMHMWOFWT-FAP-LOIC-IAB-FIP-IAF ~ But –
Insight Problems Are Different – They Require Less Vigilance And
Fewer Inhibitions – At Those Looser Moments – A Few Distractions
Can Help Us Spot Connections We Might Have Missed When Our Filters
Were Tighter – For Analytic Problems – Lack Of Inhibitory Control
– Is A Bug – For Insight Problems – It’s A Feature
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AOUETDITS-AP-AT-A-AR-WYD-DNLMTCIYPP ~ All Of Us Experience The Day In
Three Stages – A Peak – A Trough – And – A Rebound –
Whatever You Do – Do Not Let Mundane Tasks Creep Into Your Peak
Period
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TMPLBHTKI-A-A-D-BPAP ~ The Most Powerful Lunch Breaks Have Two Key
Ingredients – Autonomy – And – Detachment – Both
Psychological And Physical
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LITMIMOTD ~ Lunch Is The Most Important Meal Of The Day
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N-CTKB-TICP-A-TBMAPH ~ Naps – Confer Two Key Benefits – They
Improve Cognitive Performance – And – They Boost Mental And
Physical Health
~ SAANCRBP
~ Simply Anticipating A Nap Can Reduce Blood Pressure
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BHAFGITMOUU-B-IF-CMTTE ~ Beginnings Have A Far Greater Impact Than
Most Of Us Understand – Beginnings – In Fact – Can Matter To
The End
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IME-WSBATTPOBAATMASS-ITF-MAFS-A-ITBIBYC-WCEOTAAGS ~ In Most Endeavors
– We Should Be Awake To The Power Of Beginnings And Aim To Make A
Strong Start – If That Fails – Make A Fresh Start – And – If
The Beginning Is Beyond Our Control – We Can Enlist Others To
Attempt A Group Start
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BSWUFLTWK-TELTTE ~ Beginnings Stay With Us Far Longer Than We Know –
Their Effects Linger To The End
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WWRA-M-SWS-B-OTWJ-AMSAUTWSHOOT-U-O-WROOT ~ When We Reach A –
Midpoint – Sometimes We Slump – But – Other Times We Jump – A
Mental Siren Alerts Us That We’ve Squandered Half Of Our Time –
Uh-Oh – We’re Running Out Of Time
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TEPOESMOOOASD-NBTFE-B-BCM-EATE ~ The Encoding Power Of Endings Shapes
Many Of Our Opinions And Subsequent Decisions – Not By The Full
Experience – But – By Certain Moments – Especially At The End
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Y-WEBS-WWEA-AT-OAK-WSO-ERP-A-SO-AOA-N-WB-TCF-WE ~ Yet – When
Endings Become Salient – Whenever We Enter An – Act Three – Of
Any Kind – We Sharpen Our – Existential Red Pencils – And –
Scratch Out – Anyone Or Anything – Nonessential – Well Before –
The Curtain Falls – We Edit
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PITACW-L-RLTCMMTTPWKIWS-N ~ People Informed That A Chocolate Was –
Last – Reported Liking That Chocolate Much More Than The People Who
Knew It Was Simply – Next
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TBEDLU-H-I-TP-AROUI-AFMOT ~ The Best Endings Don’t Leave Us – Happy
– Instead – They Produce – A Rush Of Unexpected Insight – A
Fleeting Moment Of Transcendence
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C/C/C-ITE-WSM ~ Closings / Conclusions / Culminations – In The End
– We Seek Meaning
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B-PSOTAE-IALTIE-IPTHAS ~ Belongingness – Profoundly Shapes Our
Thoughts And Emotions – Its Absence Leads To Ill Effects – Its
Presence To Health And Satisfaction
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IUTBT-TWE-N-IBT-EIT ~ I Used To Believe That – Timing Was
Everything – Now – I Believe That – Everything Is Timing