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Longevity Practice

What knowledge workers get wrong about training

The cardio-versus-strength false dichotomy and the minimum effective dose

For people whose job involves sitting and thinking, exercise tends to be approached as an aesthetic project or a discharge of accumulated stress. Neither lens captures what the evidence suggests should actually be on the calendar.

#exercise #zone-2 #deep-work #vo2-max #hormesis

By Mick

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Flow & Focus

Flow isn't what you think it is

The state the literature describes, and the one the marketing sells

Csikszentmihalyi's original research describes a psychological state with reasonable scientific support. The popular literature has converted that descriptive finding into a prescriptive performance hack. The distance between the two matters.

#flow #deep-work #neuroscience #evidence

By Mick

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Mind & Method

The rapid skill acquisition claim, examined

Ericsson, Kaufman, and what "twenty hours" does and doesn't get you

Josh Kaufman's argument that any skill can be acquired in 20 hours pushed back usefully against the popular misreading of Anders Ericsson's expertise research. It also overcorrected. What 20 hours actually buys, and where the "creativity over facts" framing breaks down.

#learning #evidence #deep-work #contested #focus #behaviour-change

By Mick

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Flow & Focus

Single-tasking, attention residue, and the cost of switching

What the task-switching literature actually shows

The popular framing of multitasking as a moral failure misses what the research describes: the brain does not multitask, it switches between tasks, and the cost of switching is larger and more invisible than the people incurring it typically realise.

#deep-work #focus #attention #evidence #neuroscience

By Mick

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