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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

2400: [Part 1] How to Increase the Volume of Your Brain and Make Optimal Decisions by Benjamin Hardy

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin Hardy shares how to increase the volume of your brain and make optimal decisions. This is part 1 of 2. Episode 2400: [Part 1] How to Increase the Volume of Your Brain and Make Optimal Decisions by Benjamin Hardy on Mindfulness Benjamin Hardy has been the top writer on Medium.com since late 2015. He focuses on self-improvement, motivation, and entrepreneurship. His writing is fueled by his personal experiences, self-directed education, and formal education. His research focuses on the psychological differences of "wantrepreneurs" and actual entrepreneurs. He lives in Clemson, South Carolina with his wife and they are the foster parents of 3 children. The original post is located here: https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy/how-to-take-ownership-and-change-your-brain-identity-and-future-252ffab07523 Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com  Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2400.

0:04.3

How to increase the volume of your brain and make optimal decisions.

0:08.1

Part 1.

0:09.1

Benjamin Hardy of Benjaminhardy.com.

0:11.7

Intergenerator Justin Mollick reading you blogs every single day of the year.

0:15.8

This is one of a few shows where we narrate articles for you.

0:18.9

You can search for Optimal Living Daily in the podcast app of your choice.

0:22.8

And follow or subscribe to listen to lots of great content being narrated to you.

0:27.6

That's it, this article is a little longer than normal.

0:29.8

I'll read the first half today and then finish the rest for you tomorrow.

0:33.0

So with that, let's get right to Part 1 as we optimize your life.

0:41.4

How to increase the volume of your brain and make optimal decisions.

0:45.5

Part 1.

0:46.5

By Benjamin Hardy of Benjaminhardy.com.

0:50.4

Perhaps the biggest myth in Western culture is that we are born with a fixed and intrinsic

0:55.1

personality that who we are when we're born is who will be when we die.

1:00.6

This view is extremely dominant among baby boomers who grew up in homes and with parents

1:04.6

who had been absorbed in trait-based value systems.

1:08.2

In chronological order, let's examine the dominant leadership theories over the past

1:11.8

180 years.

1:13.5

In the 1840s, the Great Man Theory of Leadership assumed that only men could be great leaders.

1:20.0

If you didn't have that trait of being a man, you were not destined to be a leader.

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