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Show HN: Veritas – 94 recurring truths found across cultures

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3 points·by chegra·yesterday·0 comments

Summary: Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell by Bernardo Kastrup

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Summary: On Mental Toughness by Harvard Business Review

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40 points·by chegra·3 years ago·37 comments

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chegra
·6 months ago·discuss
I did a summary here: https://www.chestergrant.com/highlights-from-spark-how-exerc...

It's in my top 15 books that changed my worldview.

Some key highlights:

1. In 2001 fit kids scored twice as well on academic tests as their unfit peers.

2. German researchers found that people learn vocabulary words 20 percent faster following exercise than they did before exercise, and that the rate of learning correlated directly with levels of BDNF.

3.Specifically, every fifty minutes of weekly exercise correlated to a 50 percent drop in the odds of being depressed.
chegra
·7 months ago·discuss
You still only need one. Keep trying.
chegra
·5 years ago·discuss
I did a summary of that book:

https://www.chestergrant.com/highlights-from-daily-rituals-b...