Masterclass
Writing: James Patterson
- Wake up early to work and write even when you don’t feel like it.
- Know and write for your audience. Write such that the person reading won’t want to put your book down.
- Have an outline and put all the details about the characters, traits and arcs into your outline. Make the outline so compelling that you want to write the individual arcs.
Brain Health
- Enough hydration in the morning reduces probability of afternoon fatigue
- When you are sleep deprived, the brain struggles at regulating your body
- Cortisol activates the sympathetic nervous system, elevating respiratory and heart rate
- Parasympathetic nervous system calmva body down. Deep breath activates the parasympathetic nervous system
- Sleep removes toxins from the brain. Lack of sleep will let that build up and result in deterioration of the brain.
- Movement light up the brain. Therefore good for you.
- The brain never finishes wiring itself. Exposing yourself to new experiences and learning new things, traveling stimulates the mind and gets it to rewire.
- Neurogenesis creates new brain cells. When you workout regularly, it stimulates. 10 minutes of walking. Aerobic activity creates BDNF.
- Muscle memory is brain predicting muscle movements to make it more efficient.