Nuggets in Nutshells

Your memory needs attention

Samuel Johnson said that the art of memory is the art of attention.
Most failures of memory loss are instances of not paying attention.

An attitude of gratitude

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude makes life sweeter for you and for everyone round you. So I thank you for reading these words and weighing them up

The body thinks

Disregarding the body amounts to neglect of the mind, because the two are inseparable. They are two aspects of a whole. Disregarding the body reduces our intelligence and range of thinking.

Anticipation is better than realisation

My gran used to say “anticipation is better than realisation”. James Clear says your brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking them. The same idea, poetry vs prose. attention mindfulness